Control of Congress is the bottom line for two Central Coast races
Columns, OpinionThere is just one reason why House Speaker John Boehner has been on the Central Coast stumping for GOP Congressional candidates Abel Maldonado and Sen. Tony Strickland.
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 →
