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Guest Commentary


| Friday, June 7th, 2019

Fienup: Federal Reserve actions diminish economic future

East Ventura County, Latest news, Op/Eds, Opinion, Tri-County Economy

By Matthew Fienup For years, we have been critical of Federal Reserve policy and the significant impacts that it is having on the U.S. economy. As we wrote in 2017, “U.S. monetary policy is among the greatest of internal risks to U.S. economic growth.” And in 2018, “Extraordinary policy experimentation undertaken by the Federal Reserve Read More →

| Friday, May 31st, 2019

Farhad: Tourism is the lifeblood of Solvang

Latest news, Op/Eds, Opinion, Tourism

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| Friday, May 24th, 2019

Apfelthaler: Trade war is bad for the economy

Higher Education, Latest news, Op/Eds, Opinion, Tri-County Economy

By Gerhard Apfelthaler It’s back! After months of negotiations with China, the pause button has been released and the nation finds itself back in the trade war. Fact is, it never went away. Ask, for instance, the folks at Volvo’s plant in Ridgeville, S.C., which is running at a fraction of its capacity. Or ask Read More →

| Friday, May 10th, 2019

Plan before claiming Social Security benefits

Higher Education, Latest news, Op/Eds, Opinion

By Chia-Li Chien Our thriving society causes us to feel entitled to certain levels of service and benefits. For example, after I became a regular Uber and Lyft passenger after my near-death car accident in 2014, I became spoiled by the convenience of using Uber or Lyft to travel to airports, events or business meetings Read More →

| Friday, May 3rd, 2019

Puls: Invest in children by reading to them

East Ventura County, Higher Education, Latest news, Nonprofits, Op/Eds, Opinion, West Ventura County

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| Friday, April 26th, 2019

Oliver: Slow revolving door of mental illness, addiction, incarceration

East Ventura County, Health Care & Life Science, Higher Education, Latest news

By Malcolm Oliver, Alexis Villegas and Crawford Coats The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that alcohol, drugs and suicide claimed more than 150,000 lives in 2018. To put this number into perspective, that’s more than twice the number of American soldiers killed in Vietnam. The Central Coast is not immune to the revolving Read More →

| Friday, April 19th, 2019

Military leaders are good choices for president

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