January 23, 2025

		

Editorial Board


| Friday, May 11th, 2012

Editorial: Giving California the tools it needs to succeed

Editorials, Opinion

Sacramento, we’ve got a problem. CEO Magazine has ranked California dead last among the 50 states in its annual survey of the best and worst places to do business. An Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation study of 6,000 small business owners has given California an F grade when it comes to business friendliness. When your state Read More →

| Friday, May 11th, 2012

Editorial: Oil could bring much-needed jobs to North Santa Barbara County

Editorials, Opinion

The UC Santa Barbara forecast in Santa Maria  recently raised a provocative idea for speeding jobs and growth in the Central Coast: What if the North County opened the doors to more onshore oil-and-gas exploration and development? Many experts believe that discoverable reserves are plentiful throughout the Tri-Counties. But getting permits is practically impossible at Read More →

| Friday, May 4th, 2012

Editorial: Montecito, a rebuilt 101 would benefit you too

Editorials, Opinion

Deal with it. That’s our advice to the citizens of Montecito, that exclusive community which now faces the “horror” of a plan to add one additional car pool lane in each direction on Highway 101 from Casitas Pass Road in Carpinteria to the recently widened exits at the far eastern border of the city of Read More →

| Friday, April 27th, 2012

Editorial: Region’s banking crisis fades

Editorials, Opinion

The final phase in the region’s ongoing banking crisis may have begun.

| Friday, April 27th, 2012

Editorial: Recognizing Rathmann, Amgen’s visionary

Editorials, Opinion

The co-founder of the world’s biggest biotechnology company has cast a long shadow.

| Friday, April 20th, 2012

Editorial: Holding our police chiefs accountable for actions

Editorials, Opinion

Top cops in cities across our region are finding themselves in hot water.

| Friday, April 13th, 2012

Editorial: It’s time for the clouds to lift over Oxnard

Editorials, Opinion

The time is growing near when it’s appropriate for Totten to announce the results of his probe.