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Guest Commentary


| Friday, May 1st, 2015

A message for Mother’s Day

Latest news, Op/Eds

By Lisa Spiwak All of us mothers fiercely love our children. We would do anything to help them. Unfortunately many of our American mothers have chosen ways to help their children that may be counterproductive. This is a fairly recent phenomenon in our history termed, “the helicopter mom syndrome.” Helicopter moms are so named because, Read More →

| Friday, April 17th, 2015

Op/ed: Is China’s growth chimeral?

Op/Eds, Opinion

While a boon for export industries, a weaker yuan is further adding to default risks.

| Friday, April 10th, 2015

Letter to the editor: Independent bookstores not ready to fold

Letters to the Editor, Opinion

The Granada story proves that running a bookstore is not easy, but indie stores have survived and even prospered over the past several years.

| Friday, April 10th, 2015

Letter to the editor: Quenching Montecito’s thirst

Letters to the Editor, Opinion

It is imperative to bring in additional sources of water — through seawater desalination, additional supplementary purchases, or some other source — to Montecito for the 2016-2017 water year.

| Friday, April 10th, 2015

Op/ed: The clean-energy future is now

Op/Eds, Opinion

The most important piece of news on the energy front isn’t the plunge in oil prices, but the progress that is being made in battery technology.

| Friday, April 3rd, 2015

Op/ed: State’s tax credits open the door for business

Op/Eds, Opinion

A sampling of the most robust incentives and programs that companies on the Pacific Coast should be aware of.

| Friday, April 3rd, 2015

Op/ed: Don’t let over-regulation stifle our credit unions

Op/Eds, Opinion

Congress needs to tell regulators to stop treating credit unions like it created the financial crisis or contributed to it.