Op/ed: Lessons learned in taking responsibility, guessing wrong and doing better than your best
Over the course of this journey, I have, inevitably, learned a few lessons.
Closing the gap between the Tri-Counties’ haves and have nots
How choppy and tough is the recovery in our region? Recent unemployment data from Santa Barbara County underscored the “haves and have nots” phenomenon that underpins a society that is segregated into tourism centers with uber-rich residents and agricultural cities where the poor people who service the tourists and the rich folks reside. Consider that Read More →
Editorial: The perils of a declining Golden State population
California’s stubbornly high unemployment rate reflects structural problems that simply will not go away.
Reflecting on a tumultuous five years in business journalism
In financial journalism, it seems the future belongs more and more to the specialists.
Letter: Local governments should be commended for efforts to mitigate fracking threats
Dear Editor: The opening sentences in the Business Times’ March 1 editorial on the oil recovery technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” (“Let California set the stage on fracking rules”) would be more appropriately posed as questions: Fracking here? Fracking there? Fracking everywhere? In California, no one but the oil industry knows the answers Read More →
Editorial: Region remembers the late Tom Petrovich
Nobody exemplified the old-school Ventura County business culture better than Tom Petrovich, a community leader and CPA who died March 8.
