On Thursday, April 5, attorneys for the News-Press filed “exceptions” to a judge’s recommendation that the National Labor Relations Board approve the September 2006 vote to unionize. Read those exceptions here and make up your own mind.
Brouhaha? Fooferaw? The dispute between News-Press management and former employees has gone on long enough that you’d think some news agency would have thought up a snazzy catch-all name for it that expresses the magnitude succinctly and objectively. Alas, even an expansive list of possible synonyms falls short.
My brilliant plot about Santa Barbara locals buying the Chicago Cubs and moving the team here is looking better every day. (And so is Santa Barbara City Councilman Brian Barnwell’s near-forgotten idea about building a ballpark at Pershing Park.
Devilish dogs, crazed cats, pig-headed mules, and even that lawless lizard can start over this weekend, as Cardinal Roger Mahoney will offer a Blessing of the Animals at historic Olvera Street in downtown Los Angeles this Holy this Saturday, April 7 at 2 p.m.
This weekend marks the 31st Annual Isla Vista Juggling Festival, a three-day event from April 6-8 to support the Santa Barbara Rape Crisis Center. Friday’s events are free, and will be held at the Goleta Valley Community Center from 6-11 p.m. Saturday at UCSB’s Robertson Gym, from 11- 6 p.m., the public is invited to learn juggling techniques or observe and join the fun of our local juggling community, also a free event.
This Saturday, April 7 marks the second annual Island View Classic bicycle race to be held in downtown Isla Vista. The event will include professional and amateur races, as well as a street fair and “bicycle rodeo” for the kids. Races will begin at 8 a.m. and end at 6 p.m., keeping many I.V. streets closed to traffic for most of Saturday. Courses will run through the Embarcadero loop and cause closures to Cordoba, Embarcadero Del Mar, and Embarcadero Del Norte.
George Leis took the reins as the new president and Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Capital Bancorp on 4/2. Headquartered on Carrillo Street, Pacific Capital Bancorp is a bank holding company that manages $7.5 billion in assets, according to Debbie Whitely, the company’s director of investor relations.
Strange Times at the Times: The money-grubbing Chandler family, which built a great paper (at least the late Otis did), is going, going, going and few at the L.A. Times are shedding tears. “Good riddance,” snarled columnist Tim Rutten. The paper has now been sold twice in five years (this week to an eccentric Chicago real estate tycoon) “to accomplish the impossible-satiating the Chandlers’ greed,” wrote Rutten.
As established in last week’s column: Relationships may be easy in the initial sprint, but difficult to go the marathon distance. (As if you need a column to establish that one!) So let’s roll up our sleeves and get right to it.
Hot breath and warm bellies. Wide eyes and feet softer than feet have a right to be. Critters don’t get much cuter than puppies and babies. But it’s not their cuteness I wish to discuss here. It’s the vexing chaos they cause.
