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Editorial Department


| Friday, September 11th, 2009

Santa Barbara Public Works strikes gold

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The Santa Barbara County Public Works Department won a gold excellence award from the Solid Waste Association of North America for the second year in a row. Last year, the county took top honors for its overall Integrated Waste Management system; this year’s award was  for marketing, as embodied by its 2008 Green Waste Awareness Read More →

| Friday, September 11th, 2009

$1.5M for Westmont chair

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Westmont College received $1.5 million from The T.B. Walker Foundation, an anonymous donor and other supporters to create the college’s first endowed chair in the natural and behavioral sciences. The T.B. Walker Chair in the Natural and Behavioral Sciences will honor the work of an outstanding professor in biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering-physics, mathematics or Read More →

| Friday, September 11th, 2009

CKE unwraps Shanghai location

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Carpinteria-based CKE Restaurants announced the opening of its first Carl’s Jr. restaurant in Shanghai, China, marking the first of more than 100 Carl’s Jr. units planned in the municipalities of Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin, and the provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangsu over the next eight years. CKE said its entry into China is part of Read More →

| Friday, September 11th, 2009

The next frontier

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California, the largest space enterprise state in the nation, has brought countless of innovations to the industry, from developing and designing the International Space Station and Apollo programs, to creating the the nation’s first launch vehicles and the world’s first communication satellite. And now, a $220 million space center to be built next to Vandenberg Read More →

| Monday, September 7th, 2009

Government fiasco unmasked

Opinion

We’ll give a shoutout to University of California, Santa Barbara, professor Jacqueline Stevens and reporter Kristin Collins of the Raleigh News & Observer in North Carolina. Stevens’ research and Collins’ reporting turned up the shocking tale of Mark Lyttle, a North Carolina native who was wrongly deported to Mexico and wound up in Guatemala, where Read More →

| Monday, September 7th, 2009

$50M dash for cash sealed Affinity deal

Top Stories

Just three days before scooping up failed Ventura-based Affinity Bank on Aug. 28, San Diego-based Pacific Western Bank gave a $50 million signal that it was in acquisition mode. At a time when banks across the nation were struggling to raise capital, PacWest Bancorp, the bank’s holding company, came up with $50 million. The capital Read More →

| Monday, September 7th, 2009

Pacificor revamps strategy

Top Stories

Twenty months after financier Michael Klein died in a high-profile plane crash, his Santa Barbara-based hedge fund, Pacificor, is still working through the deals it struck before a private Cesna 172 he chartered flew into a mountain in Panama. Pacificor is still trying to repair its investment in troubled automobile parts maker Dura Automotive Systems, Read More →