July 15, 2024

		

Mike Harris


| Monday, April 8th, 2024

A2 Bio’s new CEO aims to grow platform

Latest news, middle, Subscriber content, Technology

James Robinson, the new CEO of Agoura Hills-based A2 Biotherapeutics, has several priorities he wants to tackle, not the least of which is to accelerate the company’s proprietary Tmod cell therapy platform. “First principle for us is to maximize the value of the platform that we’ve built,” Robinson, 54, told the Business Times on April Read More →

| Thursday, April 4th, 2024

Grand jury says Lompoc tourism district under-reported $500k to city

Central Coast, Latest news

Visit Lompoc, the city’s Tourism Business Improvement District, under-reported more than $500,000 in annual reports to the city over the last five years, the Santa Barbara County grand jury has determined.  The 2023-24 grand jury also discovered that Visit Lompoc had transferred $800,000 out of its checking account into a separate money market account without Read More →

| Monday, April 1st, 2024

Grand jury says $500k under-reported in Lompoc tourism pact

Central Coast, Latest news, Law & Goverment, middle

Annual reporting by Visit Lompoc LLC shows hundreds of thousands of dollars in unaccounted-for funds, according to a Santa Barbara County Grand Jury report. Released March 22, the report says that over the first five years of the current agreement between Visit Lompoc and the City of Lompoc, the cumulative value of those under-reported funds Read More →

| Monday, April 1st, 2024

Port of Hueneme not impacted by Baltimore bridge collapse

Central Coast, Latest news, left

The March 26 deadly collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge has thus far not affected the Port of Hueneme, according to port officials. “We’re not anticipating it to impact operations at our port,” COO Christina Birdsey told the Business Times March 29. The bridge collapsed after being struck by a container ship, sending bridge Read More →

| Friday, March 29th, 2024

Santa Barbara footwear companies pair up

Central Coast, Latest news, Subscriber content, Top Stories, Top Story, Tri-County Economy

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| Friday, March 29th, 2024

CenCal Health report details progress on strategic plan

Central Coast, Health Care & Life Science, Latest news, Subscriber content, Tri-County Economy

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| Friday, March 29th, 2024

Two SLO County hospitals join Adventist Health

Health Care & Life Science, Latest news, middle, Tri-County Economy

Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center and Twin Cities Community Hospital in San Luis Obispo County formally joined Adventist Health effective March 29. The merging includes related physician practices and imaging centers. Sierra Vista in San Luis Obispo and Twin Cities in Templeton were purchased in February by Adventist from Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare for $550 million. “I am Read More →