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Guest Commentary


| Friday, November 2nd, 2012

Letter: Goleta’s Measure G would not stifle growth

Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Dear Editor: This is in response to the Pacific Coast Business Times’ editorial on Oct. 26 that opposed Goleta’s Measure G2012. We begin by thanking the newspaper, whom we contacted to clear up a misconception. As a correction has since indicated, Measure G2012 is extremely limited in that it does not affect 121 agricultural parcels Read More →

| Friday, October 19th, 2012

Op/ed: Regulations alone won’t instill ethics in corporate America

Op/Eds, Opinion

The bottom line is that ethical behavior cannot be legislated.

| Friday, October 12th, 2012

Letter: SB County needs to restore private-sector job balance

Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Seventy-one percent of the top 25 employers provide government jobs.

| Friday, September 21st, 2012

Op/ed: Let’s look at the world as something other than scorched earth

Op/Eds, Opinion

By Scott Harris on September 21, 2012 My wife and I recently spent a very enjoyable weekend in a small resort town in California. The town was beautiful, the people were great and the scenery was fantastic. As we drove in, we fell in love with the mountainsides, the deep forests with huge old-growth trees Read More →

| Friday, September 14th, 2012

Op/ed: Leadership by fiat seldom works

Op/Eds, Opinion

Effective executives don’t put obstacles in front of people; they help remove them

| Friday, September 7th, 2012

Op/ed: All jobs, not just green jobs, are what California should focus on

Op/Eds, Opinion

Thoughts on growing the tri-county economy from State Senate candidate Mike Stoker, R-Buellton.

| Friday, September 7th, 2012

Op/ed: Balancing conservation and innovation are key to growing region’s economy

Op/Eds, Opinion

Thoughts on growing the tri-county economy from State Senate candidate Hannah-Beth Jackson, D-Santa Barbara.