These three middle-class firms are fighting their way to the top
This is turning out to be a tough time for some of the region’s biggest names in fashion, fast food and financial services.
Op/ed: Let’s look at the world as something other than scorched earth
By Scott Harris on September 21, 2012 My wife and I recently spent a very enjoyable weekend in a small resort town in California. The town was beautiful, the people were great and the scenery was fantastic. As we drove in, we fell in love with the mountainsides, the deep forests with huge old-growth trees Read More →
Business lessons learned in fall disasters are lost on politicians in 2012
The lessons of the three crises — 9/11, Katrina and the Lehman collapse — are hard to put into words.
Op/ed: Leadership by fiat seldom works
Effective executives don’t put obstacles in front of people; they help remove them
Editorial: In post-Cole era, Ventura will need to reinvent itself
Ventura continues to have a reputation as a place where permits are hard to come by, where city planners are slow to respond and where the rules of the development game are not as transparent as they could be.
Stability fund could pave way for California out of budget hole
A stability fund should be put into place to hold and recycle windfall IPO tax revenue.
