Press Clips: Melinda Burns; March 16, 2023 by Newsmakers with Jerry Roberts

In a special Press Clips edition, independent investigative reporter Melinda Burns returns to Newsmakers TV for a conversation about her latest piece on the workings of Santa Barbara County’s contentious cannabis ordinance, as a new budget analysis puts the lie to all the big promises by its authors about how pot would be the financial salvation of local government. Piling fact upon fact upon fact, her low-key, careful and precise journalism contrasts with the infuriated indignation it triggers in the usually genial host, whose head repeatedly comes close to exploding.