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Editorial Board


| Friday, May 6th, 2011

Editorial: Never count out an American comeback

Editorials

Anyone who’s attempted to run a business of any size during the past decade knows just how difficult the role of entrepreneur can be. In addition to the peculiar difficulties of operating in California, there has been a persistent backdrop of bad news — the dot-bomb fiasco, the housing bubble, the housing collapse, the ongoing Read More →

| Friday, April 29th, 2011

Editorial: Coming stealth crisis — rising unemployment costs for you

Editorials, Opinion

If you think, as most of us do, that all that’s needed to fix California’s problems is a deal between Gov. Jerry Brown and the Republican minority in the Legislature, think again. Beyond the budget, a perennial circus show that crowds the middle ring of state politics, there are myriad problems that plague the Golden Read More →

| Friday, April 22nd, 2011

Editorial: Oxnard and EDCO — mend it, don’t end it

Editorials, Opinion

Oxnard should not walk away from economic developmentas a civic goal.

| Friday, April 15th, 2011

Editorial: Funding higher education

Editorials, Opinion

UC Chancellor Mark Yudof, CSU System PresidentCharlie Reed and Community College chief Jack Scottare speaking with one voice on this year’s budget. An all-cuts budget would take a huge bite from highereducation in addition to the $500 million in cuts each systemhas been asked to absorb for 2011-12. We think that there are ways to Read More →

| Friday, April 15th, 2011

Editorial: A more transparent future for area politics

Editorials, Opinion

The current way the region’s political districts are carved out is grossly unfair.

| Monday, December 27th, 2010

Editorial: COLAB branches out

Editorials, Opinion, Top Stories

The arrival of COLAB, the Coalition of Labor, Agriculture and Business, in Ventura County gives property-rights advocates another tool to protect what has become an endangered liberty in the Tri-Counties.

| Monday, December 27th, 2010

Editorial: Fix the 1099 rule, the sooner the better

Editorials, Opinion, Top Stories

While restaurants and small businesses up and down the Central Coast are fuming about the need to send 1099 forms to their best customers, a fix for this foolish piece of the health care reform law languishes in the Congress.