March 4, 2025

		

Jorge Mercado

Jorge Mercado is a staff writer with the Business Times. His beats include technology, agriculture, cannabis, energy and the environment, and higher education.


| Saturday, October 19th, 2024

Small, mid-size business owners optimistic for 2025

Economy, Latest news, left, Subscriber content

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| Friday, October 18th, 2024

Still thriving after 110 years: Jordano’s has strategy in place for success in the 21st century

Latest news, Regions, Santa Barbara County, Top Stories, Top Story, Tri-County Economy

For a business to last over a century — especially in the competitive beast that is the food service industry — that company must be willing to embrace changing times. Luckily for Jordano’s Foodservice, a staple of the Santa Barbara community that will be celebrating its 110-year anniversary in February, the company has never shied away from doing what was necessary Read More →

| Friday, October 18th, 2024

Portfolio watch

Banking & Finance, Columns, Economy, Latest news, Subscriber content

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| Friday, October 18th, 2024

Street smarts: Karon Wright named Ventura County’s Volunteer of the Year

Columns, Latest news, Nonprofits, Philanthropy, Subscriber content, Tri-County Economy

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| Friday, October 18th, 2024

Dignity Health hones in on creating large cardiovascular group

Health Care & Life Science, Latest news, San Luis Obispo County, Subscriber content

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| Thursday, October 17th, 2024

AeroVironment wins contract, work to be done in Simi

East Ventura County, Latest news, left, Subscriber content, Technology

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| Wednesday, October 9th, 2024

UCSB’s Montell wins $5.5M from NIH

Health Care & Life Science, Higher Education, Latest news, left

UC Santa Barbara Professor Denise Montell was awarded a Pioneer Award by the National Institutes of Health which comes with $5.5 million of funding over the next five years to further develop her work on immunotherapy, the treatment of disease by activating or suppressing the immune system. She said in a press release that she Read More →