A prescription for team work: Conejo doctors band together against UCLA incursion
East Ventura County, Health Care & Life Science, Top Stories, Tri-County EconomyChoice Health Associates is a loose affiliation of physicians in private practice who have teamed up to better compete with big out-of-town providers.
Watkins: California’s budget surplus thanks to stock market, not Brown
East Ventura County, Tri-County Economy, West Ventura CountyCalifornia is adding jobs faster than the national average, and the state has a budget surplus for the first time since the dot-com bubble burst in 2000. That’s led to some glowing national press for Gov. Jerry Brown, including a Rolling Stone article that called his budget turnaround a “miracle.”
Belt tightening: Amid drought, food banks face bare cupboards
Agribusiness, Features, Health Care & Life Science, Nonprofits, Top StoriesDemand is up at the region’s food banks, and supply is down. In the for-profit world, those two factors would mean higher prices, but since food banks give away their products, their cupboards are starting to look a bit bare.
Sharp idea: Santa Barbara razor entrepreneur taps crowdfunding
Features, Small Business, Top StoriesSanta Barbara entrepreneur and former hedge fund manager Steve Worthington has created BornSharp, a self-sharpening razor designed to last five years.
In good company: Co-working spaces proliferate in region
Features, Small Business, Technology, Top StoriesThis has been the year co-working hit the Tri-Counties. With the opening on Nov. 4 of Connect Ventura in the Working Artists Ventura building, there are now co-work spaces in Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo.
Strolling into a bigger market: SeaVees opens first company-owned showroom
Features, Small BusinessAs corporate relocations go, this was a minor one. SeaVees, the shoe company that resurrected a 50-year-old brand name a few years ago, recently moved its headquarters about a block and a half in downtown Santa Barbara.
