Honored and delighted, Newsmakers TV is set to host the first in a series of face-to-face campaign forums featuring First District...

Welcome to 2020, a new year, new decade, new election season - and a new look for the Newsmakers blog. First things first: For those...

Oh sure, the House impeached the President of the United States this week, despite a six-page display of full-blown, unhinged Trump...

For many Democratic voters, the choice in selecting a 2020 presidential candidate comes down to one basic question: Who has the best...

Eighty days before the election, the race to replace Monique Limon in the Assembly shapes up as a wide-open, seven-way free-for-all....

Gwyn Lurie, the new editor-in-chief of the Montecito Journal, joins the panel this week and talks about engineering the $2.3 million sale...

In Santa Barbara, L.A. attorney Eric Early is a familiar figure at school board meetings who represents a group of parents suing over...

(Editor's note: Santa Barbara journalist Kevin McKiernan - documentarian, author and veteran foreign correspondent - has completed a new...

California Sen. Kamala Harris quit the presidential race Tuesday not because, as she put it, “My campaign for president simply doesn’t...

(Editor's note: Today Newsmakers presents a commentary from environmental attorney and First District voter Jana Zimmer, in response to...

President Lincoln first declared the final Thursday of November to be a national holiday in 1863, in a proclamation that included an ask...

(Editor's Note: Today Newsmakers presents an opinion piece from Supervisor Das Williams about political ethics and campaign finance...

(Editor's note: Today Newsmakers presents an opinion piece by SB school board member Laura Capps, who is challenging First District...

A new episode of Newsmakers TV premieres this week as the panel takes on two of the most schismatic and intractable policy problems...

In the 1950s, Long Beach was known as “Iowa by the Sea,” thanks to multitudes of Midwestern emigres who called the place home. Last...

Six in 10 voters likely to cast a ballot in the California Democratic primary on March 3 support one of the moderate candidates for...

Jason Dominguez’s excruciating 8-vote loss to Alejandra Gutierrez in the Eastside city council race is this week’s lead story as...

Laura Capps called out First District Supervisor Das Williams on Wednesday for taking $62,000 from pot growers while crafting Santa...

More than 1,500 ballots remain to be counted from Santa Barbara’s vest-pocket election on Tuesday, but Newsmakers refuses to let a small...

All you need to know about Tuesday's high-stakes, low-information mini-election in Santa Barbara emerges from the comments below Edhat’s...