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California businesses are responding to a labor shortage with social media pleas, hiring incentives, bonuses and new benefits.

California businesses are responding to a labor shortage with social media pleas, hiring incentives, bonuses and new benefits.Workers, particularly in the service industry, are seeing wages rise. Story from @CalMatters.

Oliver Forster / NC3 Despite the Santa Barbara International Film Festival taking place near the beach, restaurants on upper State Street are still packed with people. SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — As the 36th Santa Barbara International Film Festival gets going with two beachfront drive-in theaters, upper State Street looks a little different. At Bouchon Santa Barbara, owner Mitchell Sjerven says his restaurant would've been booked with those in attendance at the film festival.  “We've been here for 22 years and there's always been a film festival downtown,” he said. “As you'd imagine, it...

| 8:30 a.m. Thanks in large part to the internet, news is transmitted at lightning speed these days. If only the technology and back-end work needed to move it were so simple and efficient. In the fall of 2019, Noozhawk was recruited to join Newspack, a project of WordPress.com in partnership with the Google News Initiative, The Lenfest Institute, the Knight Foundation and ConsenSys, among other journalism and high-tech heavy hitters. The concept is concise, with Newspack providing small news media operations like ours with a cost-efficient website accompanied by key technology and busine...

Restaurants Rebel Against Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Outdoor Dining Ban Owners cite lack of evidence that practice causes spread of COVID-19, seek help from local political leaders as financial losses mount Tre Lune Ristorante-Bar, at 1151 Coast Village Road in Montecito, is among the local restaurants pushing back against Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ban on outdoor dining. (Joshua Molina / Noozhawk photo) By Joshua Molina, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @JECMolina January 10, 2021 | 11:30 p.m. Restaurants and the hard-hit hospitality industry are turning up the heat on local political officials in an at...