November 18, 2024

		

Guest Commentary


| Thursday, December 15th, 2022

 Humor us: How Central Coast Comedy clubs pivoted during pandemic

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By Mark Miller Special to The Business Times Laugh and the world laughs with you. Maybe. Own a comedy club and you struggle during a pandemic.  Perhaps no small businesses depend more on tightly packing large numbers of customers into small spaces and mightily attempting to provoke them to forcefully aspirate into the air than Read More →

| Saturday, December 3rd, 2022

Corporations should support local nonprofits

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By Midge Campbell-Thomas and Greg Bland As we enter the holiday season, it’s a great moment to reflect on all that we, as a community, have been through and overcome. Indeed, our Tri-County communities have been through a lot the past couple of years, but we’ve also seen how resilient we can be, especially when Read More →

| Friday, November 25th, 2022

California invests in street vendors

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| Friday, November 25th, 2022

Windfall profit tax on oil companies can be slippery proposition 

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| Friday, November 25th, 2022

<em>What happens when FTX’s<br>philanthropy evaporates?</em>

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| Saturday, November 19th, 2022

Ungrounded economic growth can be costly

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| Sunday, October 30th, 2022

Opinion: Veteran-owned businesses are an economic powerhouse

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By Dawn Golik Along the coast and across the country, businesses owned by former military members are an economic powerhouse. There are more than 1.76 million veteran-owned businesses in the United States. They employ nearly 5.3 million workers, with an annual payroll exceeding $232 million. Their approximately $1 trillion dollars in annual sales & receipts Read More →