Melinda Burns
Investigative Reporter at Freelance
Melinda Burns is a staff writer for Miller-McCune magazine who covers issues relating to the environment, poverty and possible solutions to worldwide problems.
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4 days ago |
independent.com | Melinda Burns
In a significant course correction this week, the county Board of Supervisors cut $1.4 million from its cannabis budget, taking the knife to administration, auditing, planning review and especially law enforcement. Voting 4-0 on Tuesday, with Supervisor Bob Nelson of Orcutt absent, the supervisors settled on $5.3 million for cannabis-related spending in 2025-26, or 20 percent less than what they had previously budgeted. They raised the growers’ licensing fees, too, to make ends meet.
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1 month ago |
independent.com | Melinda Burns
Wendy McCaw, the billionaire former owner of the Santa Barbara News-Press, admired Donald Trump.In 2016, she was one of a handful of newspaper publishers in the country to endorse him for President — a move that was mocked at the time by MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow on national television. As Maddow spoke, just weeks before Trump’s shocking victory, the screen lingered on a photo that had gone around the world in the summer of 2006.
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2 months ago |
independent.com | Melinda Burns
Santa Barbara Maritime Museum Presents ‘The Story of the Western Flyer’ This Thursday Famous Fishing Boat Stops in S.B. as It Re-Creates Steinbeck’s 1940 Expedition The Western Flyer stopped at Santa Barbara Harbor this week on its way to the Sea of Cortez.
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2 months ago |
santamariatimes.com | Melinda Burns
The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors has unanimously adopted odor-control regulations for commercial cannabis, requiring the installation of state-of-the-art odor control systems inside every cannabis greenhouse or before March 31, 2026.
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2 months ago |
independent.com | Melinda Burns
In a historic vote this week, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors unanimously adopted what may be the toughest odor-control regulations for commercial cannabis in the nation, requiring the installation of state-of-the-art odor control systems inside every cannabis greenhouse in the Carpinteria Valley, on or before March 31, 2026.
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