Tri-county unemployment rate ticks down in December
The unemployment rate in California dropped a half a percentage point between November and December, while the tri-county job picture improved by a much smaller margin, according to data released Jan. 21 by the California Employment Development Department. The statewide unemployment rate was 6.5% in December, down from 7% in November, the biggest month-to-month improvement Read More →
Santa Maria cannabis farm hit with environmental lawsuit
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New CEO, new board chair, new funding for ImmPact Bio
Camarillo-based ImmPact Bio made multiple headlines with one announcement on Jan. 20: the a new CEO, a new board chair, and the closing of a $111 million Series B funding round. ImmPact, a biotechnology company developing cancer treatments based on chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies, named Sumant Ramachandra as its new president and CEO. Read More →
Flying Embers pours a $20M funding round
Many alcoholic beverage brands have made their names through beer, wine and spirits, but Flying Embers has capitalized on the two trendiest items in the industry the last few years: hard kombucha and hard seltzer. Flying Embers, founded in Ojai and now based in Ventura, has grown a lot since it started in 2017 in Read More →
Trade Desk adds tech marketing pioneer to board
Andrea “Andy” Cunningham, who early in her career helped launch the Apple Macintosh computer, has joined the board of directors of The Trade Desk, the Ventura-based internet advertising company announced Jan. 18. Cunningham worked closely with Steve Jobs at Apple, and managed marketing campaigns for his other companies, Pixar and NeXT. She is the founder Read More →
Guilty pleas in perfume thefts as Ventura County authorities take action on retail crime
Ventura County prosecutors announced guilty pleas in a retail theft case on Jan. 14, a week after sheriff’s deputies in the county arrested two brothers in connection with a separate case of theft from department stores. Each case involved alleged six-figure losses. The arrests and guilty pleas come on the heels of reported increases in Read More →
Opinion: Supreme Court vaccine rulings hold more questions than answers for employers
By Ryan Haws On Jan. 13, as COVID-19 cases across the nation surged to seemingly omnipresent levels, a divided United States Supreme Court issued two key orders affecting President Joe Biden’s “Path Out of the Pandemic” action plan. The first order belatedly held that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration exceeded its authority with its Read More →
