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The National Labor Relations Board unanimously rejected a challenge by owners of the Santa Barbara News-Press and ruled that the union vote by newsroom staffers last year was proper. The ruling means that the Graphics Communications Conference of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters now can bargain for the news staff.
Meanwhile, a hearing on NLRB charges that Wendy McCaw and friends improperly fired eight reporters continues and may last out the month. The News-Press has subpoenaed most of the dozens of editors and reporters who quit over McCaw's antics or were fired since the paper melted down last summer. This was Friday's Steve Greenberg cartoon in the Ventura County Star:
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| Bev Hills billionaire Ron Burkle has $56 million in loans against his two houses. The McCourts have borrowed $28 million on their properties.
| Advice for Greenies in a Complicated World
| Steve Jones, the self-proclaimed Sire of Wilshire (a nod to the physical address of his former home at Indie 103.1 FM), is back on the air!
| She gaped at me like I was living history -- Miss Jane Pittman come to put her withered lips to the "Young Only" fountain straw of ageism.
As newspapers and television pull back from investigative reporting, foundations and other organizations are beginning to fill the void. One of the most interesting is Accountable California, a project of Local 721 of the Service Employees International Union.
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