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Editorial Department


| Friday, September 10th, 2010

Santa Lucia defers debt payments

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Atascadero-based Santa Lucia Bancorp said Sept. 3 that, following consultation with Federal Reserve officials, it will defer payments on $5 million in debt for up to 20 quarters. The firm also recently announced that it expects to enter an agreement with or be placed under an enforcement order to boost capital by banking regulators. The Read More →

| Monday, September 6th, 2010

Find the bag, follow the money: Tech veteran builds business on lost luggage

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You’ve just stepped off an airplane in London. You’re tired and jetlagged, and your bag is nowhere to be found. Looks like you’ll be presenting to the head of European operations in the clothes you’ve spent 16 hours in. Santa Barbara technology veteran Cleveland Motley wants to make sure that doesn’t happen again. Motley is Read More →

| Monday, September 6th, 2010

UCSB’s two solar powers

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The burning question in energy research is how to harness the power of the sun in a cost-effective way. Nobel laureate and UC Santa Barbara Professor Alan Heeger’s answer — plastic solar cells that can be printed cheaply like photographic film — has drawn interest and more than $100 million from investors. But other researchers Read More →

| Monday, September 6th, 2010

Biofuel firm raises cool $3M

Top Stories

Camarillo-based Cool Planet Biofuels has raised another $3 million and leased 50,000 square feet of space to propel the development of a biofuel system it says could produce usable gasoline with a negative carbon footprint. Cool Planet plans to use its newly leased space to start building what it dubs its “biomass fractionators.” Where traditional Read More →

| Monday, September 6th, 2010

Dirt is flying again as building picks up in the Tri-Counties

Columns

After a year or more of struggling to find work, contractors are ready to dig in their shovels and let the dirt fly as construction projects large and small break ground throughout the Tri-Counties. Several notable projects are in the construction pipeline, and builders I spoke with said they’re finally starting to see new business Read More →

| Monday, September 6th, 2010

Head of the class: Lynda.com expands its Carpinteria empire

Top Stories

With the purchase of almost 60,000 square feet of space in Carpinteria, Lynda.com has become one of the biggest technology firms headquartered on the South Coast. The Internet-based firm calls itself “education as a service.” Users pay about $25 a month to access an online library of almost 900 software courses. Originally oriented toward creative Read More →

| Monday, September 6th, 2010

Editorial: Systemic pension problems

Opinion

News that the University of California system faces a $20 billion pension shortfall underscores one sobering truth to consider on Labor Day: Public sector jobs are not a free ride. Every job in the public sector is paid for with taxes, fees, tuition or other levies on private enterprise. Public-sector employees have a certain amount Read More →