Santa Paula entrepreneur turns attention to Chinese attack victims
“None of the victims did anything wrong except being in the wrong place at the wrong time. This is about people helping people. We all live here,” Santa Paula resident William Irion, who frequently travels to China, told me.
South Coast golfers trod parched courses amid drought
Some of the greens on the South Coast are starting to look a little brown as regional golf courses cut back on watering amid California’s worsening three-year drought.
Developers back out of deal to buy Santa Maria parcels from Limoneira
Two housing developments in Santa Maria are back on the market after a potential buyer backed out of an $8.3 million deal with Limoneira Co.
Op/ed: Pension investments are fundamentally sound
Pensions are a vital part of compensation and serve as an asset to local governments.
Belt tightening: Amid drought, food banks face bare cupboards
Demand is up at the region’s food banks, and supply is down. In the for-profit world, those two factors would mean higher prices, but since food banks give away their products, their cupboards are starting to look a bit bare.
German entrepreneur tunes into hearing loops with Otojoy
A Santa Barbara entrepreneur is hoping to make life in public places a little easier for people with hearing loss. Otojoy installs hearing loops, which take audio signals from sound systems and then transmit them electromagnetically to be picked up by a special feature found in most hearing aids.
