Letter: Sheriff’s decision to sue reflects poor judgement
The article headlined “Ex VC sheriff sues for supplemental pension” in your Oct. 18 issue got my blood boiling, as I am sure it did with many of your readers.
Timing is everything with $56M Central Coast banking merger
Regulators will have one less bank to regulate and the combined bank will get benefits from economies of scale.
Precision agriculture is a timely idea, but profits may not grow fast
Farmers are a skeptical lot. And Ventura County farmers have good reasons to be skeptical. They, and their counterparts in the Tri-Counties, grow high-risk, high-yield crops on relatively small plots of land surrounded by housing developments and urban areas. They are subject to heavy regulations on fertilizer, pesticide and water use. Particularly on strawberry fields Read More →
Letter: Clarifying NCHC’s winding-down process
NCHC selected the assignment process because it is generally faster and virtually always less expensive than the alternative of bankruptcy.
Op/ed: Central planning still rules China’s economy
Does innovation really function in a communist state-controlled economy that only partially incorporates a few facets of free-market capitalism?
Editorial: Private sector should step up in debt debate
Business owners and managers are key stakeholders — we hold the keys to far more economic activity than politicians.
Op/ed: The case for a revenue-neutral carbon tax
We have a moral responsibility to future generations to take powerful action now to moderate climate change, by severely curtailing our greenhouse gas emissions.
