By Elijah Brumback / Friday, July 25th, 2014 / Columns, Real Estate / Comments Off on Downtown Oxnard shops struggle against The Collection’s clout
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By Henry Dubroff / Friday, July 18th, 2014 / Columns, Opinion / Comments Off on How Mission & State became foundation’s Mission Impossible
It’s time to hit “pause” on the Santa Barbara Foundation’s Mission & State public-interest journalism project. That’s not just my view. At a packed community meeting with representation from a half-dozen media organizations in the area, Lois Mitchell, president of The Orfalea Foundation, a program funder, urged the foundation to suspend a controversial contract that Read More →
As a new mixed-used housing project in downtown Oxnard lands on the table, the partners behind the development hope they can unlock a long-disputed $8 million that was once tied to the city’s redevelopment agency.
By Henry Dubroff / Friday, July 4th, 2014 / Columns, Opinion / Comments Off on Dubroff: Next Santa Barbara city manager must continue fiscal focus
“Methodical” is a word you might use to describe Jim Armstrong, the Santa Barbara City Manager who announced June 27 that he will be stepping down in September after 13 years on the job. Ironically, that’s not always the word you’d choose to describe Santa Barbara itself. It is, after all, a city with an Read More →