Westmont receives biggest gifts in its history
Westmont College in Montecito announced Sept. 15 that it had received the two largest cash gifts in its history, totaling more than $15 million. In late August, Westmont received $8.2 million from Ed and Mollie Miller, its largest single gift ever. The donation supports the college’s Paul Raymond Miller Scholarship Endowment, named in honor of Read More →
UCSB makes U.S. News national top 30; Cal Poly, CLU among best in West
UC Santa Barbara cracked the top five among national public universities in U.S. News & World Report’s annual “Best Colleges” rankings, released Sept. 12. UCSB was No. 28 among national universities, a list topped this year by Princeton University at No. 1 and a tie for second among Columbia University, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Read More →
Opinion: Oxnard was central to Chicano movement
By Frank P. Barajas This column is an excerpt from the book “Mexican Americans with Moxie: A Transgenerational History of El Movimiento Chicano in Ventura County, California, 1945-1975,” by Frank P. Barajas. From the United Farm Workers Boycott Office in Delano, California, Jessica Govea, 24, examined a clipping of a full-page advertisement in the Ventura Read More →
Dubroff: Haas Manufacturing Lab points to Ventura County’s past and future
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Real Estate: UCSB faces housing crunch, could place students in hotels
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Hair care company with UCSB roots plans IPO
Olaplex, a hair care products company founded in Santa Barbara using technology developed by UCSB chemists, is planning an initial public stock offering. The company filed a prospectus with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Aug. 27, but the filing gave no details on the price of the shares, the number of shares to Read More →
Our View: Heidi Harmon changed the game as mayor of SLO
When Heidi Harmon narrowly won election as mayor of San Luis Obispo back in 2016, she vowed to shake up the status quo. And that’s what the former Bernie Sanders convention delegate did when she won by a handful of votes. During the next five years, she pressed the no-growth crowd for more housing, including Read More →
