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Guest Commentary


| Friday, May 24th, 2013

Op/ed: Tax deadlines can help you reach your financial goals

Op/Eds, Opinion

With this year’s tax season behind us, it is now time to take the next steps to maintain personal finances in good order.

| Friday, May 17th, 2013

Op/ed: It’s time for California to invest in innovation again by letting businesses grow

Op/Eds, Opinion

The California Jobs and Innovation Act has gained the support of many corporations and industries, as well as community leaders.

| Friday, May 10th, 2013

Op/ed: Making affordable health insurance for California small businesses and workers a priority

Op/Eds, Opinion

But because of the Affordable Care Act, California’s small businesses and their employees are getting better choices.

| Friday, May 10th, 2013

Op/ed: Immigration reform can move our economy forward

Op/Eds, Opinion

By Daniel Grossman and Mick Hellman on May 10, 2013 From the business parks of Silicon Valley to the fields of the Central Valley, immigrants help fuel California’s economic engine. Unfortunately, our nation’s immigration policies resemble a badly tuned carburetor, restricting the full participation of immigrants in our system, choking them and us of oxygen Read More →

| Friday, May 3rd, 2013

Letter: Editor’s column was insulting to Conejo Valley

Letters to the Editor, Opinion

[EDITOR’S NOTE: The following was written in response to Editor Henry Dubroff’s April 19 column headlined “KPMG scandal gives the Conejo Valley’s elite a rude wakeup call.”] Dear Editor: My apologies for whomever it was from the Conejo Valley that slighted or disrespected you at some point. Was it really necessary for the sake of Read More →

| Friday, May 3rd, 2013

Op/ed: KPMG scandal damages reputation of the accounting profession

Op/Eds, Opinion

What possesses an audit partner to trade on inside information and violate the accounting profession’s most sacred ethical standard of audit independence? Is it carelessness, greed or ethical blindness?

| Friday, April 26th, 2013

Op/ed: How to avoid following the herd, and still be heard, as an investor

Op/Eds, Opinion

By Juan C. Ros on April 26, 2013 Here’s a short quiz: When the stock market is going up, do you: (1) get excited and want to keep riding the upswing to maximize profits, or (2) sell stocks to take money off the table? Similarly, when the stock market is in a freefall, do you Read More →