TV Santa Barbara

Fear, panic and uncertainty are rampant in Santa Barbara’s Latino community amid Donald Trump’s demagoguery over mass deportations, Ryan P. Cruz explains on this week’s edition, as Nick Welsh reprises his reporting on the huge challenge hiding in plain sight that is the community’s rapidly aging population, and Josh Molina breaks down that big brawl at City Hall over dividing up the financial windfall of the Measure I sales tax increase. Plus: the latest on food truck regulations, a new legal barrier to the 250-room planned hotel on Garden Street, and how Trump is channeling William McKinley.

Veteran journalist and educator Mi-Ai Parrish beams in from Arizona State University to talk about the strategy and tactics behind the planned re-launch of the Santa Barbara News-Press as a daily, online news operation, backed by NEWSWELL, a non-profit based at the Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at ASU.

Despite its huge wealth, Santa Barbara County has the second highest poverty level among California’s 58 counties, a new report shows, and Ryan P. Cruz, Melinda Burns and Josh Molina join the genial host in dissecting the implications and reasons behind this shocking finding: Plus: a big change in cannabis regulation, refugees from the L.A. fires fill SB hotels, a honeymoon for Roy Lee and SB council overrules City Hall in saving the famed Stone Pine Trees of Anapamu Street.

Pedro Nava, chair of California’s good government Little Hoover Commission, dissects and analyzes the state’s homeowner insurance crisis, which his agency studied in depth and detail, as the deadly L.A. wildfires are all but certain to make getting affordable insurance even more difficult.

Amid the savage wildfires in Los Angeles, Gwyn Lurie and Josh Molina join the genial host to discuss some lessons learned from Santa Barbara’s mass casualty natural disaster experience seven years ago, and discuss the politics and policies likely to emerge from the new Board of Supervisors and the SB City Council. Plus: a look at the crucial Sable Offshore oil issue.

Local community leader, Cynder Sinclair began hosting The 805 Focus! ten years ago. Sinclair invites nonprofit leaders to discuss their mission and the important work they do in our community. This week's guest: Carey Bradshaw, Executive Director of Therapy of Dogs Santa Barbara.

https://therapydogssb.org/

Rep. Salud Carbajal checks in from the snow-bound steppes of Washington D.C. to preview the coming political year, describing how “depressing” it was to watch Vice President Kamala Harris preside over the electoral vote count for her rivals, discussing the funhouse mirror environment at the Capitol as the second Trump Administration approaches and detailing the impact for the Central Coast of legislation he was able to get past in the last congressional session.

Local community leader, Cynder Sinclair began hosting The 805 Focus! ten years ago. Sinclair invites nonprofit leaders to discuss their mission and the important work they do in our community. This week's guest: Veronica Cubillo, Director of Programs with Domestic Violence Solutions.

https://dvsolutions.org/

Santa Barbara Mayor Randy Rowse and his arch-foil, City Council member Meagan Harmon (aided by Andrew, her impossibly cute young squire) join our All-Star Panel of Top Local Journalists for a full and frank exchange of deep thoughts, cheap shots and bon mots about the most important, least consequential or otherwise entertaining events, trends, and surprises in Santa Barbara, as told in the final hours of 2024.

Gwyn Lurie, Nick Welsh and Josh Molina join the genial host and his esteemed guests for a free-flowing discussion about critical, high-impact stories of this year, which will continue to reverberate next year, even as local politics and policy unfolds under the shadow of Trump's authoritarian project.

https://www.newsmakerswithjr.com/

Local community leader, Cynder Sinclair began hosting The 805 Focus! ten years ago. Sinclair invites nonprofit leaders to discuss their mission and the important work they do in our community. This week's guest: Lauren Trujillo, Director of the Santa Barbara Public Library Foundation

https://sblibraryfoundation.org/