Op/ed: Making affordable health insurance for California small businesses and workers a priority
Op/Eds, OpinionBut because of the Affordable Care Act, California’s small businesses and their employees are getting better choices.
Op/ed: Immigration reform can move our economy forward
Op/Eds, OpinionBy 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 →
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 →
Op/ed: KPMG scandal damages reputation of the accounting profession
Op/Eds, OpinionWhat 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?
Op/ed: How to avoid following the herd, and still be heard, as an investor
Op/Eds, OpinionBy 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 →
Op/ed: Lessons learned in taking responsibility, guessing wrong and doing better than your best
Op/Eds, OpinionOver the course of this journey, I have, inevitably, learned a few lessons.
Letter: Local governments should be commended for efforts to mitigate fracking threats
Letters to the Editor, OpinionDear Editor: The opening sentences in the Business Times’ March 1 editorial on the oil recovery technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” (“Let California set the stage on fracking rules”) would be more appropriately posed as questions: Fracking here? Fracking there? Fracking everywhere? In California, no one but the oil industry knows the answers Read More →
