Luxury for the locals: New Bacara GM key to resort’s new image
Kathleen Cochran will be tasked with attracting locals and the rich and famous alike to boost sagging occupancy at the Goleta hotel.
Shaking up science: UCSB team derives formula for oil and water
A team at UC Santa Barbara has derived a formula to describe why oil and water don’t mix.
Cloud over leasing begins to lift as technology firms add staff
A handful of technology-related deals in recent weeks hint that a more definitive rebound may be just around the corner.
A niche on the shelf: Specialty food companies thrive
Two of the Tri-Counties’ quirkiest food producers are proving that bigger isn’t necessarily better.
PCBC posts $20.5M profit year after recap deal
Pacific Capital Bancorp, parent of Santa Barbara Bank & Trust, said Oct. 27 that it earned $20.5 million in the third quarter of 2011, marking its first full year of profits since a team of Texas bankers recapitalized it last year. In August 2010, Dallas-based Ford Financial Fund, led by veteran bankers Gerald Ford and Read More →
How screwed are we? NPR reporters explain
“So, like, how screwed are we?” That was the question that the presenters of “Planet Money,” the popular and humorous economics segment on National Public Radio, posed to a lively audience at UC Santa Barbara on Oct. 26. Correspondents David Kestenbaum and Alex Blumberg did a live stage version of their popular NPR series, which Read More →
