Time to rethink area economic development
OpinionYou know that the economy is in deep recession when movers and shakers in greater Santa Barbara start using those two dreaded words: “economic development.” Never a shrinking violet when it comes to politics, Carpinteria City Councilman Joe Armendariz has come close to touching the third rail of South Coast politics by calling for “resurrecting Read More →
More is less when buyouts occur
OpinionThe sale of Mentor to Johnson & Johnson, announced earlier this month, punctuates the need for a bigger conversation about economic development in the Tri-Counties. That’s because we are increasingly losing our middle class of companies and relying more and more on risky startups for job growth. True, J&J — like Allergan, Citrix, Teledyne, Raytheon Read More →
Platform spills oil off coast
UncategorizedBy Dec. 8, crews had cleaned up most of a 1,130-gallon oil spill six miles off the Carpinteria coast, state officials said. The spill from a drilling platform occurred in the same area as the 1969 spill that caused an ecological disaster. Platform workers discovered oil had leaked from a finger-sized hole in a pump Read More →
Foodbank invests $100K
UncategorizedSanta Barbara County Foodbank Executive Director Erik Talkin and the Foodbank’s Board of Directors have decided to invest an additional $100,000 in emergency and supplemental food sources and opportunities to help those in need this winter. The foodbank is asking the community to assist in this effort by continuing to deepen their financial support of Read More →
Westmont plan approved
UncategorizedCalifornia’s Second District Court of Appeal unanimously supported Westmont’s plan to update its campus facilities, reaffirming a December 2007 Santa Barbara County Superior Court ruling that upheld unanimous approvals by the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors and the Montecito Planning Commission. A three-judge panel issued its finding after hearing arguments in Santa Barbara Oct. Read More →
Lessons to keep your business alive through 2009
ColumnsWhen the current period of recession ends, probably sometime next year, there will be two kinds of companies left. Those who survived and those who didn’t. Having weathered a terrible recession in the publishing industry in 2001 and a total washout of the real estate market in my home state of Colorado a couple of Read More →
That
ColumnsJust in time for the holidays, the cute little gingerbread-style house across from the Santa Barbara News-Press building on Anacapa Street is going to be torn apart. Maybe that’s a little more Hansel and Gretel than it is holiday cheer, but you get my drift. The small Victorian-era cottage, listed as “Myers Carpenter Gothic Cottage” Read More →
