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Guest Commentary


| 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 →

| Friday, April 5th, 2013

Op/ed: Lessons learned in taking responsibility, guessing wrong and doing better than your best

Op/Eds, Opinion

Over the course of this journey, I have, inevitably, learned a few lessons.

| Friday, March 15th, 2013

Letter: Local governments should be commended for efforts to mitigate fracking threats

Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Dear 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 →