The city appealed the decision, and on Tuesday it lost again.
“This published decision has statewide implications, said Kracke’s lawyer. Travis Logue with Rogers, Sheffield & Campbell. It’s a major victory for Californians who prefer affordable vacation accommodations along the coast. Our client deserves huge credit for waging this battle. He’s taken arrows from all sides and faced ridicule by the City Attorney’s Office. Anyone who uses or operates STVRs in Santa Barbara should thank him. Given the city’s terrible financial condition and depressed tax revenue, let’s hope the city embraces reasonable regulation. Miracles do happen.
A judge has temporarily denied a request to block Ventura County from interfering with the city of Oxnard s attempt to take over ambulance services.
Ventura County Superior Court Judge Ronda McKaig issued the ruling Friday, noting that Oxnard faces an uphill battle establishing its authority to provide ambulance services.
McKaig took the city s request for the court order under submission after a one-hour hearing but did not say when she expected to issue a final determination.
Oxnard s attorney, Andrew Schouten, argued that the city had delegated to the county its authority to provide ambulance service only temporarily, in the early 1970s, and can take it back. But the county s attorney, Lloyd Bookman, said the reversion was no longer possible under a 1980 state law.
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Montgomery: Tourist spending in the state dropped 20% last year at the height of pandemic lockdowns and business closings, but Alabama fared better than most during the coronavirus crisis, state tourism officials said. A statement from the Alabama Tourism Department said a travel consulting firm found a nationwide decline of 42% in travel expenditures, but the state’s decrease wasn’t as bad because spending was robust in Baldwin County, where the beach towns of Gulf Shores and Orange Beach are located. State beaches, historically Alabama’s top tourist draw, were shut down early in the pandemic but reopened as the summer travel season was beginning. “Baldwin County’s success is all the more remarkable when you factor in that the beaches were closed for six weeks in the spring and one week due to a hurricane in the fall,” said Judy Ryals, chair of the board that oversees the agency. Visitors spent more than $13 billion on ac