Blue Wave mostly hits in Santa Barbara - Santa Barbara News-Press

Good morning, Santa Barbara ☀️

Here’s what we have for you today:

Santa Barbara elects three progressives to City Council amid massive rebuke of Trump nationwide
Luz Reyes-Martín and James Kyriaco to continue serving on Goleta City Council
Rep. Carbajal and Assemblymember Hart re-elected to office at federal and state levels
Santa Barbara County counting ballots as candidates in tight races watch and wait
Stabbing at Coal Oil Point Reserve near Isla Vista
A couple of big local races are still too close to call. We still don’t know who will be the next mayor of Santa Barbara. Eric Friedman is leading, but the lead is less than 2 percentage points and Kristen Sneddon can still win. Another update of numbers is expected later today. Also, in Santa Maria the battle between Ricardo Valencia and Maribel Aguilera is still extremely close. So check our instant News-Press election results later today at newspress.com for the latest updates.

Joshua Molina

News-Press Editor

Stories you should know about

Why California’s billionaire tax was a harder sell than expected (Los Angeles Times)
In victory, Democrats see economic mandate to cut costs and curtail Trump (New York Times)
Bernie Sanders lost the fight in 2016. A decade later, he won the war. (Politico)

College reads

An update on Sable Offshore developments. (Daily Nexus)

Friedman slightly ahead of Sneddon in preliminary mayoral counts (The Channels)
UC Berkeley Law launches AI litigation course (The Daily Californian)

This Day in history: From the archives

Back in 2005, Santa Barbara’s most progressive and liberal organizations were criticizing Democrat Iya Falcone for trying to appeal too much to the middle and right. She was accused of moving away from supporting working families to serving business interests. Sound familiar? Anyway, it was happening in 2005 and I was there to cover it all. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

This election story ran on Nov. 5, 2005. (Courtesy News-Press archives)

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