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Editorial Department


| Monday, September 21st, 2009

Scripps regroups

Personal Finance

In response to plummeting advertising sales, the Ventura County Star’s parent company has completely overhauled its newspaper division, shuffling top management in an effort to cut costs.   The Cincinnati-based E.W. Scripps Co. said the reorganization will affect all of its 13 newspapers, which will now report to an operating committee on sales and content. Read More →

| Saturday, September 19th, 2009

GreatWay presents

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The Best of Success roofing industry conference selected Rod Menzel for a presentation at its fifth annual conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Menzel is the founder of GreatWay Roofing, a commercial and residential roofing company. He was also selected as this year’s winner in the Green Business category for the Business Times’ Spirit of Small Business Read More →

| Saturday, September 19th, 2009

Dole banana saga continues

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A federal judge in Miami said he may decide that Westlake Village-based Dole Food Inc. can’t be forced to pay a Nicaraguan court’s $97 million verdict awarded to banana plantation workers, Bloomberg News reported.   In a Sept. 4 hearing, U.S. District Judge Paul C. Huck said that he didn’t see how he could sustain Read More →

| Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

Green Coast goes to Washington

Top Stories

WASHINGTON, D.C. — With the Obama administration nudging climate change toward the top of the political agenda, the new energy economy was a timely topic as 25 business and community leaders from the Tri-Counties convened for a day of discussions hosted by U.S. Rep. Lois Capps, D-Santa Barbara. Capps said she was encouraged by efforts Read More →

| Monday, September 14th, 2009

BuenaVentura

Top Stories

When Banco BuenaVentura was rolled out in Oxnard less than a year ago, it catered almost exclusively to the area’s Hispanic community. But in light of its upcoming Sept. 21 closure, some are left wondering if the niche bank’s business plan is to blame for its collapse. The bank had a very clear goal when Read More →

| Monday, September 14th, 2009

$22M bankruptcy spotlights Montecito

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A year after the worst market quake since the Great Depression, aftershocks from the credit crunch are rumbling through Montecito’s upper crust. Patricia Klink filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Aug. 17 with $29.3  million in assets and $22.2 million in liabilities. She is the wife of John Klink, a longtime high-level Vatican adviser whose anti-abortion Read More →

| Monday, September 14th, 2009

Region loses reputation as safe haven for jobs

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The Tri-Counties have historically faired well in bad times, but the latest unemployment figures released by the U.S. Labor Department show that California’s budget woes and the nationwide recession may have finally begun to catch up to the region. While the highest unemployment rate in the Tri-Counties is in Ventura County, Santa Barbara and San Read More →