Commentary: We’re Signing Off, But Our Fight Goes On
By Santa Barbara Newsroom   
Friday, July 13 2007

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We’ve enjoyed writing for the Web, a new experience for all of us print reporters. Thanks, Santa Barbara, for your support. - SBN
Today, we’ll call it quits on reporting online at SantaBarbaraNewsroom.com.

We’ve enjoyed writing for the Web, a new experience for all of us print reporters who were illegally fired from the Santa Barbara News-Press. It’s been great running our own show, free of interference from an abusive publisher. We hope we have been of service to you since we launched the site on April 2.

We simply don’t have the funds to continue online indefinitely.  But we are not going away! It’s time to step up our campaign for reinstatement to the News-Press and a Teamster contract in the newsroom. Beginning Aug. 14, we will be on the witness stand as the News-Press goes on trial in Santa Barbara on charges of 15 violations of federal labor law, including our firings. This site will remain as an archive.

 

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NEWS IN BRIEF: Across the County
By Santa Barbara Newsroom   
Friday, July 13 2007

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FIRE EXCEEDS 13,000 ACRES

- CARP SUSPECT ARRESTED ON
  SUSPICION OF SEXUAL ASSAULTS

- BUELLTON COUNCIL 
   REJECTS EXPANSION STUDY

- A BIG STINK AT THE BIRD REFUGE

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COPS: MEN IN CAMO DROP
  POUNDS OF POT


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SUSPECTED HABITUAL
  SHOPLIFTER NABBED




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John Zant: All-Star Reflections in Last SBN Column
By John Zant   
Friday, July 13 2007

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John Zant
I was tempted to join in the All-Star baseball festivities in San Francisco this week -- maybe rent a kayak and seek the home run balls that were sure to splash into McCovey Cove.

Now that would have been a chilling waste of time.

The estuary next to Pac-Bell – excuse me, AT&T Park – was a dinger-free zone during the All-Star Game and even during the Home Run Derby. ESPN and Fox both planted correspondents in the flotilla beyond the right-field wall, but they might as well have been waiting for the Loch Ness Monster to appear.

Nothing happened out there.

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