City Council Candidates Urged to Apply
By Lori Denman-Underhill Think you have what it takes to be on Ventura’s City Council? Interested candidates are urged to visit City Hall and pick up application paperwork in July and August. The mayor and all council members were present for this regular meeting, held on June 11. Special presentations opened up the meeting and […]
Homeless Who Accept Salvation; Vagrants Who Don’t
By Lori Denman-Underhill One group that works hard to help the homeless, on and off the streets, is the Salvation Army Emergency Shelter and Ventura Transitional Living Center. The group goes above and beyond the call of duty for any homeless man or woman looking to find their way. Services include a shelter with 12 […]
Ventura Homelessness | The Present of More Presence
By Lori Denman-Underhill There is an ongoing discussion in many cities, including Ventura. Is an increased presence of police officers a present, when dealing with a subset of the homeless causing crime? There are two sides of the discussion representing varying opinions from the community. One one side, many are concerned with the subset of […]
Patrol Task Force Offers Insight on Homeless
By Lori Denman-Underhill In order to help a person, the one who is aiming to assist should literally, dive deep into their world and investigate their environment. The homeless issue of Ventura includes aspects that are evident from an outside perspective. However, many people in the community engage themselves one-on-one, in an effort to learn […]
Note to Seattle: If You Want Less of Something, Tax it
by Thomas L. Knapp What’s the best way to help the homeless? While there are lots of reasons for homelessness in America, ranging from mental illness to the use of e.g. “sex offender registries” to put certain areas off-limits to certain people, poverty likely places high on the list — and a major cause […]
City Council OKs Almost a Million for Museum of Ventura County
By Lori Denman-Underhill City Council opened up the May 14 meeting by holding special presentations for those who worked to rebuild the city after the Thomas Fire. They also approved an additional $950,000 for the Museum of Ventura County (MVC), leaving many public speakers puzzled. They stood up at the podium and questioned City Council […]
Santa Paula: Transient Gateway to the Santa Clara River
By Sheryl Hamlin Led by Richard Owen, a resident of Cornell Drive in Santa Paula, five residents related their stories of the transient invasion into their neighborhood. These transients are living along the Santa Clara riverbed creating piles of trash and filth. In the map segment below, Cornell Drive is shown in red. Note proximity […]
John & Ken Broadcast Live from Ventura’s Rally Against Vagrant Crime on May 3
By Kevin Harris Fed-up Venturans rallied on Thursday afternoon, May 3, 2018, to protest lenient city policies toward homeless criminal behavior, which they say led directly to the senseless murder of a local restaurant patron, while his young daughter sat in his lap, on April 18. Anthony Mele, 35, was having dinner with his family […]
Truly Compassionate Immigration is Americans First
by Naomi Fisher I feel empathy and sorrow for all the hopeful immigrants waiting to come to this county, but I cringe at the lifestyle they have been forced to live and how they are living right now. However some of the people protesting should understand our country cannot take care of any more […]
Ventura Promenade “Clean-up”
by Paul White A Venturan was walking on the promenade early this morning where Mele was killed. One city rep was walking with a reporter. At one end was a big work crew who’d just finished cleaning up the trashy promenade. There was a group of five other cops patrolling, and three more in […]
