••• “An investigation by The New York Times found extensive evidence that the United Farm Workers co-founder groomed and sexually abused girls who worked in the movement.” As a result, reports the Santa Barbara News-Press, “City Councilman Oscar Gutierrez and ex-Mayor Marty Blum want a street named after Cesar Chavez changed back to Salsipuedes Street.”
••• “Sable Offshore Corp. announced Monday that it restarted production on Platform Harmony and transporting oil to refineries in response to President Donald Trump and the Department of Energy ordering the move under the Defense Production Act. […] Trump amended a January 2025 executive order that said the United States had ‘insufficient energy production’ that threatens national security, the economy and foreign policy.” Probably shouldn’t have started a war in the Middle East…. —Noozhawk
••• “A coroner’s investigation has determined that the Goleta-area couple [Jay and Kristen Ruskey] who died mysteriously last month were victims of carbon-monoxide poisoning.” —Noozhawk
••• More on the Montecito Country Mart’s fight to keep its post office, including this: “USPS has notified the mart that it plans to shutter the postal unit in four months [….] Contract postal units, also known as CPUs, are operated independently from USPS, often inside supermarkets and drug stores. […] Retailers pay their own employees to operate them and receive a percentage of revenue; if the postal unit sells a $1 stamp, for example, the mart gets 9 cents.” —Noozhawk
••• “The City of Santa Barbara released the design for an upcoming public street art project, which will transform the corner of State and Carrillo streets into a vibrant display inspired by Mixtec and Zapotec weaving patterns. The project is part of Bloomberg’s Asphalt Art Initiative, which selected the city as one of 10 cities in North America to receive a $100,000 grant for a public street art project last year.” Of all the things to spend money on…. —Independent
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I think the street art looks cool and it’s not like the grant money could be used for other purposes. I’m grateful for whoever organized the application so that Santa Barbara could be one of the 10 recipients.
Is there info on how long the intersection will be closed to apply this decoration?
State street is already closed to traffic and I’m sure they can lay tiles down pretty quickly on Carrillo. I love the colorful tiles and I go to the farmers market every Saturday and look forward to seeing this.
They should rename the street Calle Dolores Huerta!
I didn’t see your comment before I posted. Great idea!
It’s nice the city got $100,000 for this street art project. I’m a gardener, working mostly in the Funk Zone and wow, what I could do with that down here! Am I the only one that notices the plants and trees at the State street ($11mil) 101 underpass look sad? Seriously, Eleven Million Dollars. The planters look awful for that amount of money. But back to this post, I don’t understand spending another $100k on a tile/art project on State street. (I know, it’t a grant from the state of CA,. . .)
From everything I’ve read, the State of California did not grant a penny toward this street art project. The $100k grant is from the Bloomberg Foundation.
How about renaming Calle Cesar Chavez to Calle Dolores Huerta?
We stand with Delores Huerta (co-founder of United Farmworkers). As a Pasadena teenager active during the early days of the Grape Boycott, I wanted to move up to Delano to help organize the national boycott. I guess I am lucky that my parents wouldn’t let me drop out of high school.
Chavez was a hero to me until the NYT report came out this week. I was proud to see his name in Santa Barbara. No longer.