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Back to the Future… in an Automobile

by Scott Wenz

Mar 24, 2025
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They rode in on a Palomino horse with a flashy silver saddle, waved at the crowd and sold the failed Frisco based MIG Game Plan, for a narrowed State Street.

Forty years of effort failed – This City Council has overseen the final collapse of economic success of downtown Santa Barbara.

The unfulfilled hopes and dreams of the “MIG Game Plan” include effort …

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