More than $20,000 in campaign contributions intended for Das Williams’ main campaign committee were misreported on the county's website...

For 75 minutes last week, six contenders in the wide-open 37th Assembly District race staged a substantive debate in Santa Barbara that...

A prominent organization of public access and community media centers has honored “Montecito/January 9, 2018” with an award for...

The controversial independent campaign committee backing Das Williams kept stockpiling money this week, despite the First District...

(Editor’s note: Today Newsmakers presents a special report by co-founder Hap Freund, detailing how the Board of Supervisors cooked up a...

Das Williams asked the independent campaign committee supporting his re-election to “stop the negative attacks” on rival Laura Capps last...

An independent campaign committee, organized by political operatives associated with the cannabis industry and ordinance, has raised...

A trio of community-minded activists, concerned that the local race for state Assembly has been overshadowed by the Board of Supervisors...

In a fast-moving new episode of Newsmakers TV, the panel weighs in on the controversy over a video clip of the arrest at the main library...

Three veteran political consultants -- two Democrats and one recovering Republican – are operating the independent expenditure committee...

Two national news headlines defined the state of play in the first weeks of the 2020 presidential campaign: “After Chaos of Iowa,...

Das Williams and Laura Capps are on pace to raise and spend over $1 million combined in their race for the First District seat on the...

Gwyn Lurie leads off this week’s edition of Newsmakers TV, with an inside look of how the deal went down as she moderated Monday night’s...

On Monday evening, more than 300 otherwise normal denizens of Montecito flocked to the Music Academy to witness a spirited, pugnacious...

Das Williams and Laura Capps are scheduled to meet for two face-to-face debates over the next few days -- but the most consequential...

In a one-on-one Newsmakers TV interview, Rep. Salud Carbajal described the U.S. Senate trial in the impeachment proceedings against...

The first face-to-face confrontation between Das Williams and Laura Capps played out on the Newsmakers TV set Tuesday night, a...

Newsmakers TV returns this week for its sixth year – 11th season! – of inside analysis and behind-the-scenes commentary from Santa...

In 17 days, the first ballots will be cast in the pivotal election to decide if Donald Trump’s narcissistic nihilism wins a second term....

The candidates in the First District supervisor race both released the first 30-second video commercials of their campaigns on Monday:...