February 24, 2025

		

Editorial Board


| Friday, February 15th, 2013

Editorial: Chamber creates framework for future

Editorials, Opinion

The Santa Barbara Region Chamber of Commerce took the wraps off a new business model.

| Friday, February 15th, 2013

Editorial: Veteran’s EMT program makes sense

Editorials, Opinion

This bill passed the House in the previous Congress but never made it though the Senate. Surely, now its time has come.

| Friday, February 8th, 2013

Editorial: Weighing the benefits of an oil boom

Editorials, Opinion

On one side of the argument is jobs and America’s manufacturing resurgence. On the other is fracking and its environmental impact.

| Friday, February 8th, 2013

Editorial: Retroactive tax payments would punish job creators

Editorials, Opinion

The Franchise Tax Board’s decision to retroactively tax small-business owners who sold their companies smacks of a bureaucratic over-reach.

| Friday, February 1st, 2013

Editorial: Immigration reform could open paths to entrepreneurship

Editorials, Opinion

California’s access to the Pacific Rim, its universities, its base of tech companies and its access to venture capital are huge pluses when it comes to recruiting and retaining foreign-born entrepreneurs.

| Friday, February 1st, 2013

Editorial: Bank reform needed to increase small-business access to financing

Editorials, Opinion

They don’t need to be shut out of the financial system by rules that make it too difficult for banks to take relatively small risks on customers who have sound plans but no credit history or extremely limited access to personal capital.

| Friday, January 25th, 2013

Editorial: Deckers chief sets high bar for corporate giving

Editorials, Opinion

Martinez has enhanced the company’s reputation as a company that promotes sustainable business practices in the design and packaging of its products.