Students find toughest job market in years
UncategorizedCalifornia’s increasing unemployment rate is not the news business students want to hear as they get ready to graduate this spring. But the slowdown already is showing up in smaller job fairs and enhanced career planning services offered by schools. Business schools at tri-county universities are using workshops and one-on-one counseling to teach upcoming graduates Read More →
Deckers picks up its pace – New acquisition could offset British store closings
UncategorizedDeckers Outdoor Corp. is in talks to acquire smaller footwear-maker Ahnu in a move that could give the Goleta-based company a much-needed boost after it shed more than half its value in the last five months and had its analyst ratings drop. Deckers said it planned to buy the Alameda-based company on Jan. 23, although Read More →
Casa Serena celebrates 50 years of miracles
NonprofitsPosters that read “Don’t leave before the miracle” hang throughout the walls of Santa Barbara’s Casa Serena. For those who enter the nonprofit’s doors, the miracle is a recovery from alcohol and drug addiction. It has been 50 years since Casa Serena opened its doors to offer a safe haven and support system for recovering Read More →
Give until it zooks! – Online fundraiser helps region
NonprofitsEven if givezooks! didn’t exactly coin the term “social fundraising,” the company is at least looking to revolutionize the concept. A Santa Barbara-based Internet startup, givezooks! is using the power of social networking tools to transform the way nonprofits and other grassroots campaigns fundraise and connect with donors. “Social fundraising, as we call it, is Read More →
Meltdown shows what happens when trust disappears
ColumnsIt’s becoming clearer that the events of September 2008 will go down as some of the worst in Wall Street history. Consider, if you will, recent comments by a couple of people who represent some of the best thinking on this subject. Writing in a note to investors, David Decker, portfolio manager for Janus Contrarian Read More →
Commercial brokers have sober view of sales, vacancies, leases
ColumnsThe tri-county commercial real estate market can expect to see rising vacancies and dwindling sales numbers and asking rates in 2009, according to several recent reports. Radius Group Commercial Real Estate, Hayes Commercial Group and NAI Capital all published market outlooks for the new year indicating that the pendulum is swinging from landlords to tenants. Read More →
Oil spill
OpinionThe 40th anniversary of the Santa Barbara oil spill, widely credited with helping give birth to the environmental movement, would not seem to be a time to pay some new respect to the free enterprise system. After all, the Jan. 29 offshore spill, which polluted beaches in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, led to a Read More →
