Fair pay may be key issue for our time
Does the position of state or local bureaucrat come with entitlement to a job and retirement that far exceed those in private industry? Does the job of public company CEO come with an entitlement to get fabulously rich? These are two of the most important questions of our time. My own answer to both questions Read More →
Westlake
Huitt-Zollars just nabbed a contract to provide on-call civil engineering design consulting services for the Port of Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Harbor Department awarded the Westlake Village Huitt-Zollars office a three-year contract for infrastructure projects. Jim Faul, who heads the Dallas-based firm’s Westlake Village office and will take the point on the project, has Read More →
Herb put the McMuffin on the map
Ask any mom or grandmom to name one item of fast food that’s reasonably healthy for kids and you likely will get a single answer — the Egg McMuffin. Ditto Consumer Reports or the popular “Eat This, Not That” books or diet consultants trying to cope with the obesity epidemic that plagues American families. As Read More →
Time to bid good riddance to the recession
And then there were four. We’re ringing out what I call the Dismal Decade with no fewer than four economic forecasts for the region and very little agreement among the principals involved. Sung Won Sohn of California State University, Channel Islands, is probably the most optimistic, having said in early December that he expects a Read More →
Forecast: Don
If you’re in real estate, you probably don’t want to reflect too much on 2009. That’s understandable. Rising vacancies and declining sales volumes, paired with foreclosures and disappearing financing, dealt a devastating blow to the real estate sector over the past year — one that might knock the industry off its feet until late 2010. Read More →
Ventura real estate firm sets sights on the Lone Star State
For the first time in eight years, Dick Fausset’s Ventura real estate investment company is buying. Back in the 1990s, Fausset Neely Inc. went on an acquisition spree, buying up more than 2.86 million square feet of commercial property in California, Texas, Louisiana and Alabama. But in 2001, Fausset stopped buying and started selling. “In Read More →
Give small businesses a few tools
It’s bad enough that regulators have basically forced our community banks to redline small businesses and deprive them of capital at a time when it’s most needed. Now comes word that staff have been let go at Small Business Development Centers, which provide technical assistance to operating ventures in Ventura and Santa Barbara centers, which Read More →
