After seven years, the financial crisis quietly ends for area banks
“Even the pessimists were thinking three years,” Community West CEO Marty Plourd told me. “No one expected the low-interest-rate environment to last this long,”
Op/ed: Auditor independence should be left to the accounting profession
The concern about audit independence — the question of whether the performance of non-audit services for an audit client impairs audit independence — is an old one.
Op/ed: Congress whiffs on reform of exploding food-stamp program
This once-modest program, originally set up to provide temporary assistance to the truly poor, has morphed into a massive runaway entitlement program that is grossly mismanaged, rife with fraud and badly in need of reform.
Op/ed: Pension investments are fundamentally sound
Pensions are a vital part of compensation and serve as an asset to local governments.
Crazy proposals in other states leave California as the saner option
While jobs, minimum-wage hikes and the future of work are making headlines, something else is happening on the ground in the Tri-Counties.
Op/ed: Ventura County pension proposal is about retirement plan fairness
The big fact that public employee unions don’t mention when they tout the safety of pensions is that when the pension fund loses money, you — the taxpayers — have to make up the difference.
Op/ed: A gradual transition to empty nest makes the cord-cutting bearable
I was afraid our perfect world would be torn asunder by every little female spat in the house. I wanted no conflict. I pined for the harmony of the true Wonder Years.
