Happy Monday!
• We hit 5,000 followers on Instagram over the weekend. That’s a great number for us in a short amount of time. Go ahead and give us a look and follow us if you haven’t already.
• Some of our reporting made it into the Los Angeles Times last week. As you may recall, Sara Miller McCune News-Press Summer Fellow Kaitlin Sweeney traveled to Santa Maria and reported on the five teens who were killed in a car crash.
The L.A. Times used some of her reporting from an interview from the scene and credited the News-Press. You can read the article here.
• This Day in History: My story last week about a city dustup over spending down budget reserves had a lot of people at City Hall talking. It was the News-Press’ most-read story last week, and just about everywhere I went, people stopped me to offer their opinion on the situation.
• I guess history repeats itself. Check out my story from 21 years ago, June 15, 2005. It’s a pretty good read, although I wonder why my politics editor at the time let me get away with so much heavy breathing and a 60-word lead.😉
• The week ahead: Speaking of the budget, Santa Barbara will take another swing at it this week. Tuesday’s council meeting looks to be a doozy, with a long list of suggestions to help balance the budget and build up reserves.
• Santa Barbara also this week plans to formally hand over Paseo Nuevo mall to Yardi Systems, in a move that will bring hundreds of workers downtown and save the retail mall from a New York developer. Housing is also coming to the former Nordstrom building.
• Meanwhile, News-Press reporter Tom Schultz will have his hands full covering the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors all day Tuesday, where the group is tackling its $1.67 billion budget.
• Finally, Sara Miller McCune News-Press Summer Fellow and reporter Sofia Wallace is covering housing for us this summer, and this week, she is working on a story about the proposed eight-story apartment tower behind the Santa Barbara Mission. A petition has more than 5,000 signatures aimed at stopping the project. If you have views on the proposal, email Wallace at sofia.wallace@newspress.com, and you may be included in the story.
Joshua Molina
News-Press Editor
Top read of the day
Santa Barbara City College faculty, staff furious over president’s pay raise
By Patricia Stark • Special for the News-Press
Superintendent-President Erika Endrijonas negotiated an increased salary, yet SBCC faculty and staff have received no raises in the last two years.
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