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Editorial Department


| Monday, September 7th, 2009

Santa Barbara wins for marketing

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Santa Barbara County recently won gold and best marketing awards from the California State Fair. Awards were given for the county’s new exhibit on display at the CalExpo Fairgrounds in Sacramento until Sept. 7. The exhibit draws upon the county’s history and Spanish-style architecture to highlight regional areas of interest for visitors. It also promotes Read More →

| Monday, September 7th, 2009

Shaking up Montecito

Columns

For the past few years, hedge fund managers were quietly filling in the gaps of their classic car collections, while the headlines oozing from around Montecito’s stone walls were largely celebrity dustups. Revelation of actor Rob Lowe’s already public address sparked major upheaval at the Santa Barbara News-Press. Julia Louis-Dreyfus took her best shots at Read More →

| Monday, September 7th, 2009

Powering up biodiesel

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If the subject of biodiesel has ever caused you to conjure images of a battered Mercedes station wagon piloted by a young, unkempt environmentalist, picture instead a truck or maybe even a motor vessel owned by the U.S. Navy, the world’s top user of diesel fuel.   Earlier this month, Santa Barbara-based Biodiesel Industries, in Read More →

| Monday, September 7th, 2009

September conferences forecast Ventura Co. real estate market

Columns

You won’t have to wait long to get the scoop on Ventura County’s housing market. September’s conferences will fill in all the gaps. • First up is the 2009 Ventura County Economic Outlook Conference, slated for Sept. 10 at the Westlake Hyatt. Economist Mark Schniepp will have a forecast for not only the housing market Read More →

| Monday, September 7th, 2009

Eco-devo investments will pay off with jobs

Opinion

California has a budget crisis. A jobs crisis. And just as important, an economic development crisis. Precisely when the state needs to be fostering new business starts and helping small firms become the next eBays and Intels, there’s no one minding the store. As Assistant Managing Editor Marlize van Romburgh reported in a recent edition 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 →