Long-distance medicine – InTouch robots can help rural patients get treatment
[Editor’s note: This story has changed since its original posting. See the correction appended below.] A Santa Barbara company that uses technology to bring better health care to rural patients across the country is inking deals and boosting its national presence. InTouch Health makes the RP-7, an Internet-connected robot that physicians can use to provide Read More →
San Luis Obispo
The way commercial brokers do business is changing. Drops in demand and sales volume have persuaded more and more industry professionals to use Web sites to list and market their properties, and one tri-county broker appears to be leading the way. The National Association of Realtors featured Jason Hart, owner-broker of Hart Commercial Real Estate Read More →
Smith
It’s fair to say the late Martin V. “Bud” Smith blazed a trail across Ventura County. Starting with a small hamburger stand at the Los Angeles County line, the entrepreneur-developer left behind a diversified real estate empire and a reputation for being a low-key operator whose handshake was something you could take to the bank. Read More →
Business and technology leaders honored
It’s time again for the South Coast Business & Technology Awards Dinner. The dinner is the premier networking event of early summer in Santa Barbara, and all the proceeds fund scholarships for business and technology students at Westmont College, Santa Barbara City College and the University of California, Santa Barbara. With about 65 corporate sponsors Read More →
Time to bring more power to the people
Not so very long ago, California’s weak power grid made it the laughing stock of the nation. But, thanks to poor public policy choices over the past decade, the rest of the country has caught up to us. Now, President Barack Obama has hired Steven Chu, a top University of California scientist, to lead the Read More →
Youth organizations strengthen
There is a considerable youth movement happening at United Way organizations up and down the region — and that’s a welcome sign. Until just a few years ago, United Way groups were getting more and more dependent on two groups of supporters — large corporate employers and wealthy individuals, typically retirees who often were the Read More →
Pomeroy indicted
Nikki Pomeroy, a former officer and director of Southwest Exchange Co. of Henderson, Nev., was indicted on 11 felony counts of embezzlement and 11 felony counts of serving as an unlawful intermediary in a tax-free exchange. The indictment was made by the Nevada attorney general’s office. A separate class-action suit accuses her father, Southwest Exchange Read More →
