January 23, 2025

		

Editorial Board


| Friday, August 31st, 2012

Editorial: Santa Barbara County should rally around SBDC

Editorials, Opinion

We encourage our local government, financial institutions and other stakeholders to support the Small Business Development Center.

| Friday, August 31st, 2012

Editorial: MIT connects business community

Editorials, Opinion

It is important to recognize the role that programs such as MIT Enterprise Forum of the Central Coast play in the overall economic vitality of the region.

| Friday, August 24th, 2012

Editorial: Private sector, not train, likely to put state on track

Editorials, Opinion

Despite an improving economy, discontent is simmering across California this summer.

| Friday, August 24th, 2012

Editorial: Remembering Harold Frank

Editorials, Opinion

The region’s prowess in growing technology companies owes a lot to this electrical engineer.

| Friday, August 17th, 2012

Editorial: Following-up on Congressional insider trades

Editorials, Opinion

In late July, our news pages carried an article  about a series of potentially favorable stock trades in shares of Thousand Oaks-based Amgen that may have benefited the wealthy wife of U.S. Sen. John Kerry. Disclosure of the trades, made in 2007 on behalf of a trust that benefits Teresa Heinz Kerry, would not have Read More →

| Friday, August 17th, 2012

Editorial: Simi Valley sights its economic future

Editorials, Opinion

Since the deep recession of the early 1990s triggered by post-Cold War defense cuts, Simi Valley has evolved from industrial center to bedroom community to small-business hub. Now, Mayor Bob Huber wants to reinvent the city as what you might call Simi Valley 4.0, combining the best parts of its past but bringing more of Read More →

| Friday, August 10th, 2012

Editorial: Ventura County rolls up its sleeves on job creation

Editorials, Opinion

Ventura County has taken some first steps toward setting an economic vitality framework into place. A plan presented to the Board of Supervisors on Aug. 7 brings the issue of economic vitality to center stage in a county that’s experienced a very slow recovery from the Great Recession. The plan, presented by the office of Read More →