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Editorial Department


| Monday, June 21st, 2010

Broadband stimulus cash lands at Occam

Top Stories

In one of the biggest stimulus grants to filter down to a tri-county business, Goleta-based Occam Networks will supply equipment for a $101 million project to bring broadband access to rural Western Kansas. Occam will provide networking equipment to Kansas-based Rural Telephone’s Nex-Tech, which will connect 23,000 households and businesses across 4,600 square miles. “In Read More →

| Monday, June 21st, 2010

Made in Santa Maria: Prince Lionheart puts its plastics plant to new uses

Uncategorized

If you bought anything made of plastic in the past 15 years, chances are it read “Made in China.” Central Coast Molding, a new venture launched by longtime Santa Maria manufacturer Prince Lionheart, is working to make more plastic products read “Made in the U.S.A.” Founded in 1973, Prince Lionheart has expanded to become a Read More →

| Monday, June 21st, 2010

Cal Poly set to launch MBA program; CSUCI to follow

Top Stories

Sharpen your pencils and get out your notebooks, Santa Barbara. Two different MBA programs aimed at working professionals will launch in the city over the next two years. Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and CSU Channel Islands are both setting up part-time MBA programs in Santa Barbara, with Cal Poly’s launching first and CSUCI planning Read More →

| Monday, June 21st, 2010

Making the grade: Conejo Valley attracts top corporate talent

Top Stories

Over the past two decades, the Conejo Valley has emerged from a collection of sleepy farm towns to a home for major companies. Good schools and proximity to Los Angeles have a lot to do with the attractiveness of the area to companies such as Dole Food Co., Teledyne Technologies, Amgen and J.D. Power & Read More →

| Monday, June 14th, 2010

A mid-year update from the newsroom

Columns

In just a few weeks, June 30 will roll around on the calendar and the second half of the year will begin. That’s why I’m going to take a bit of a timeout this week and give you an update from the newsroom on developments for the rest of 2010. As you can tell from Read More →

| Monday, June 14th, 2010

Learning hard lessons: Meier regroups, writes again after selling Writers Conference

Women Inc.

Marcia Meier has been knocked around by the publishing world enough times by now to know how to navigate it. That’s because the former owner of the Santa Barbara Writers Conference has learned about writing and publishing — and business — the hard way. Meier, who makes her living as a writing coach, recently released Read More →

| Monday, June 14th, 2010

Editorial: A gentleman passes

Opinion

Stan Bartlett helped a regional CPA firm become a name with real brand value — not an easy thing to do. He was a founding member of Bartlett, Pringle & Wolf, one of the region’s oldest accounting firms. He was a genial fellow and a quiet community leader whose accomplishments were recognized by the Santa Read More →