Editorial: SBCC: One in a million?
Twice in a month, a tri-county institution is vying for best-in-the nation honors, with a nice financial reward attached.
Editorial: The coming gray wave on California’s coast
20-somethings are coming to Ventura for tech jobs, but making them permanent residents, the kind who will actually stick around through their 30s and 40s, will be far more difficult.
CMH takes $350M, goes to next level

For decades, midtown Ventura has been a health care hub for Ventura County, but it’s a vision that’s gone largely unrecognized as the city grew up around Community Memorial Hospital.
Guest op/ed: UCLA sells its soul for Milken’s gift
The thinly veiled message is that convicted felons can benefit from such crimes simply by having their unconvicted business partners donate enough money to make the recipient overlook the offenses.
Editorial: Workers compensation warning bells go off
Worker’s compensation rates are starting to creep higher and so are claims.
Editorial: 11 compete for Ventura Council
It’s no longer sufficient to sit idly, then complain loudly when anti-business upstarts get in and put the brakes on the free enterprise system.

Looking past the gloom for a way forward

Swept aside in this summer from hell have been a few very promising developments.