February 7, 2025

		


| Thursday, October 6th, 2011

Arts groups receive $3.7M

Latest news, Nonprofits

Thirteen Central Coast arts institutions are receiving a total of $3.7 million from The James Irvine Foundation, a nonprofit that hands out grants to help organizations achieve cultural and financial success. The grants, which were announced on Wednesday, are part of the Irvine Foundation’s five-year-old Arts Regional Initiative. Since 2006, the program has targeted music, Read More →

| Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

Transphorm gets $3.6M grant

Green Coast, Latest news, Technology

Transphorm, the Goleta-based energy efficiency firm backed by $63 million from Google and other investors, has received a $3.6 million federal grant to improve solar panels. Transphorm’s technology uses a semiconducting material called gallium nitride to drastically reduce heat waste in electronic systems. The grant from the U.S. Department of Energy went to Transphorm in Read More →

| Friday, September 30th, 2011

Guest op/ed: Cal Poly’s international business program closed, to detriment of students

Op/Eds, Opinion

A separate international business program sends the message to students and employers that we value a global perspective in our curriculum.

| Friday, September 30th, 2011

Guest op/ed: Understanding crime insurance for ‘rogue employee’ losses

Op/Eds, Opinion

Financial services companies have never been more vulnerable to catastrophic losses caused by dishonest employees and employees duped by dishonest third parties.

| Thursday, September 29th, 2011

Memorial slated for SLO attorney

Latest news, Law & Goverment

Phil Steiner, a well-known intellectual property attorney in San Luis Obispo, died on Sept. 25. He was 55. A memorial is planned for Steiner at the Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo at 11 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 30. Steiner was instrumental in establishing the intellectual property section of the San Luis Obispo County Bar Read More →

| Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

Watkins: Slow growth ahead

Latest news, Real Estate, Tri-County Economy

California faces at least two quarters of very slow growth next year, with continued job losses and a decline in home prices that likely will extend to 2013. That was the grim news from California Lutheran University economist Bill Watkins, who spoke to about 300 people at a Sept. 27 forum hosted by Montecito Bank Read More →

| Monday, September 26th, 2011

Ventura County Business Bank acquired

Banking & Finance, Banking Industry, Latest news

Oxnard-based Ventura County Business Bank has been acquired by Royal Business Bank for an undisclosed amount. Ventura County Business Bank’s two branches, in Oxnard and Westlake Village, officially opened as a subsidiary of Royal Business Bank on Monday, according to a news release, and will continue to operate under their original name until February. For Read More →