Henry Dubroff | Friday, August 21st, 2015
Columns,
Latest news I got to know David Winter shortly after the Business Times had begun production in the spring of 2000. We had hired a recent Westmont graduate, Laura Polland, who turned out to be a terrific writer and our founding technology editor. And we’d been encouraged to reach out to Westmont by Ed Birch, who was Read More →
Henry Dubroff | Friday, August 21st, 2015
Columns China’s sudden move to devalue its currency earlier this month has caused a lot of hand-wringing and cost hedge funds a ton of money. But it also teaches a lesson that often is learned painfully — it’s easy to lose your way when you try to be No. 1. That’s why I think the yuan Read More →
Henry Dubroff | Friday, August 21st, 2015
Editorials Efforts to designate Los Angeles as the U.S. host city for the 2024 Olympic are worth more than passing attention by leaders along the Highway 101 corridor. That’s because a successful bid by Los Angeles for the summer games would produce multiple benefits for the Central Coast, with a broad impact on business. The 1984 Read More →
Henry Dubroff | Friday, August 14th, 2015
Editorials,
Opinion Just when you think environmental stewardship can’t get any worse … it gets worse. About three months ago, the Central Coast witnessed its worst environmental disaster in decades when Plains All American Pipeline leaked more than 140,000 gallons of oil onto the Refugio Beach area. About a fourth of that ended up in the ocean, Read More →
Henry Dubroff | Friday, August 14th, 2015
Columns,
East Ventura County,
Latest news Whatever the political outcome, one certain winner in the Sept. 16 GOP candidates’ debate is going to be the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum in Simi Valley. The debate will be the fourth presidential candidate forum to be held at the library, and it almost certainly will deliver a huge television audience. That means Read More →
Henry Dubroff | Friday, August 7th, 2015
Columns,
Health Care & Life Science,
Tri-County Economy This is a column about how dysfunction in Washington is handing billions over to Wall Street while threatening thousands of jobs on the Central Coast. Just a year ago, Allergan shut its Goleta breast implant operation after it came under siege from corporate raiders, Activis, a New Jersey-based company that used an acquisition in Ireland Read More →
Henry Dubroff | Friday, August 7th, 2015
Editorials,
Opinion We have seen this movie before. A larger-than-life figure in entertainment and business struts on to the political stage and captivates an audience of disaffected conservatives. Never mind that his personal politics are fairly liberal — it’s the appearance of control and command that pushes the conventional candidates out of the way. Once the momentum Read More →
