As Nobel laureate Bob Dylan said, ‘The Times, they are a changin’
Columns, Latest newsSome changes are taking place at Pacific Coast Business Times, beginning with the print edition you are holding in your hands or the digital version you’re looking at online. First, we’re combining our weekly commercial real estate and finance coverage into a weekly focus section called “Money & Real Estate.” That move will allow us Read More →
Proposition 61 will not cure sky high drug prices
Editorials, Health Care & Life Science, Latest news, Law & Goverment, OpinionProposition 61 goes before California voters in just a few weeks. And as the Business Times reported on Oct. 14, Amgen, the Thousand Oaks-based biotech giant, along with other major drug companies, is spending millions to oppose Proposition 61 and its plan to control drug prices. Proponents promote the David vs. Goliath aspect of their Read More →
Tri-Counties shedding fossil fuels industries
Editorials, Energy, Latest news, OpinionThe Tri-Counties is moving away from its legacy of fossil fuels industries. The pace of that move and managing the cost of leaving oil and gas operations behind will say a lot about the region’s future prosperity. The Tri-Counties edged further away from fossil fuels on Oct. 5 when the San Luis Obispo County Planning Read More →
Caruso breaks ground on Miramar resort not a moment too soon
Columns, Latest news, TourismYou might call it “Rick Caruso moment, take two.” A couple of years ago I coined the phrase “Rick Caruso moment” to describe the curious phenomenon on the Central Coast where projects don’t really begin – they just move forward on their own momentum after the last opponents fade away. Such was the case, I Read More →
Confessions of a Digital Heretic: Nonprofit journalism crashes the paywall
Columns, Latest newsBy Henry Dubroff When Pacific Coast Business Times staff writer Alex Kacik won a USC Annenberg School fellowship in health journalism this year, the last thing on my mind what that his project would run head-on into our paywall. But that’s precisely what happened after he wrote the first in a series of stories about Read More →
California blocks workers’ path to small business ownership
Columns, Latest news, Small BusinessThe lack of serious attention to the dismal state of small business formation in California and across the nation has been one of the most disappointing aspects of the 2016 campaign. Small business gets a lot of lip service but scant real attention. Meanwhile, the number of small business failures continues to outpace new starts. Read More →
Patagonia weighs in on climate change policies
Editorials, Latest news, OpinionIn a widely circulated New Yorker magazine profile, Patagonia co-founder Yvon Chouinard fumed this summer about Hillary Clinton’s acceptance speech at the Democratic Party convention — complaining that including just one sentence about climate change fell far short of the mark. Apparently, we haven’t heard Patagonia’s last words on the matter of politics and climate Read More →
