Here are five key issues to watch closely this economic forecast season
Columns, Health Care & Life Science, OpinionIn an effort to cut through the noise to some real issues facing our region, I’ll offer up five of the key indicators that I’ll be watching in the weeks ahead.
Chamber has Santa Maria-style recipe for economic development
Columns, OpinionPoliticians, business types and pundits have been searching for a model that’s cost-effective and politically viable.
Partnerships begin to emerge in race for drone technology business
ColumnsThe promise and risk in what could be the next aerospace boom in Southern California.
Prop. 30 draws battle line between education and business leaders
Columns, OpinionWhether it passes or fails, the Proposition 30 debate has drawn some battle lines that won’t easily be erased.
Congressional candidates joust over taxes, housing
Latest news[EDITOR’S NOTE: Correction appended below.] Assemblymember Julia Brownley and state Sen. Tony Strickland clashed over fiscal policy, housing and education at an Oct. 2 debate in Thousand Oaks as their campaigns for the 26th U.S. Congressional district remained a close contest. Held at California Lutheran University, the debate turned especially heated when Brownley accused Strickland of voting against California’s Homeowners Bill of Read More →
Attorney general owes us straight answers in health care investigation
Columns, OpinionThanks in part to Obamacare and in part to an aggressive move by California’s attorney general, this is a historic moment for health care in the Tri-Counties. As I write this column, more than half the population of the region is served by a hospital that is in the early stages of an antitrust investigation. Read More →
These three middle-class firms are fighting their way to the top
Columns, Op/Eds, OpinionThis is turning out to be a tough time for some of the region’s biggest names in fashion, fast food and financial services.
