Bankruptcies put projects in King
By Stephen Nellis and Emily Rancer Central Coast hotel owner John King is gearing up for a long battle in bankruptcy court to launch Paso Robles as California’s next premier wine destination. Before last year’s credit crunch, King was on the verge of creating a resort that promised to forever change the Paso Robles tourism Read More →
Oxnard rolls out Mercedes
While the rest of the region’s car industry is hitting the skids, Oxnard is moving upscale. Along the city’s Auto Center Drive, stores selling new luxury models are taking root — perhaps anticipating a bigger recovery for the ailing industry in the coming months. The largest tri-county city’s gains stand in sharp contrast to the Read More →
Star woos Hispanic readers with Siglo21
The Ventura County Star has teamed up with Oxnard-based Spanish-language radio network Lazer Broadcasting to offer a free weekly newspaper aimed at Ventura County’s Latino community. The two are distributing 20,000 copies of a relaunched Siglo21 to 275 locations, mostly in West Ventura County. The newspaper hit stands about eight weeks ago. George Cogswell, the Read More →
Park cuts protested – Businesses say closures would hurt tourism, jobs
Tourism officials, superintendents and small business owners in the Tri-Counties agree on one thing — shutting state parks, including 21 in the Tri-Counties, is the wrong way to cut the budget deficit. They say closing the parks, a part of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s austerity program, will result in reduced sales tax revenue, lost jobs and Read More →
Ring around the revenue – Company raises $3.5M for phone venture
Just a year and a half after its founding, Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue has raised $3.5 million in venture capital, signed up the biggest customer in its target market and is hiring fast. RingRevenue has developed a technology to let advertisers track phone calls the same way they currently track clicks. At the core of the Read More →
Camarillo firm outfoxes Sean Hannity
Fox News commentator Sean Hannity has picked a fight with the wrong guy. He’s gotten under the skin of Matt Kolb, the president of National Coatings Corp., a small, successful roofing materials company based in Camarillo. Kolb, to put it mildly, is steamed about Hannity’s inopportune wisecracks about white roof coatings. National Coatings Corp. is Read More →
