January 24, 2025

		

Editorial Board


| 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.

| Friday, January 18th, 2013

Editorial: Brown leaves key elements off table in university debate

Editorials, Opinion

For a few days during the past week, higher education reform has moved to the top of the agenda for Gov. Jerry Brown.

| Friday, January 11th, 2013

Editorial: Caltrans should consider Plan B for Montecito 101

Editorials, Opinion

With Highway 101 widening plans for the South Coast moving forward at a steady pace, a group of area residents has begun pressing an alternative for a stretch through Montecito. Called Common Sense 101, the group makes persuasive arguments for area officials to ask Caltrans to carefully review its plan to undertake a radical remaking Read More →

| Friday, January 4th, 2013

Editorial: Better public-pay data is a deterrent for abuse

Editorials, Opinion

Getting more transparency on pay is a small but important step to toward accountability

| Friday, January 4th, 2013

Editorial: Region banks on good eats

Editorials, Opinion

Community by community, our region is beginning to get behind a concept called California Restaurant Month.