Westmont neglected as donor defaults on $75M
By any account, $75 million is a lot of money. If you are a small, Christian college laboring with recovery from a major fire and an ambitious expansion plan, it’s an enormous amount of money. Which is why the report in this issue of the Business Times that Westmont College’s mystery donor won’t be able Read More →
Region shows compassion for Haiti
When tragedy strikes, our region steps up. That’s one of the truly remarkable things about living and working in the tri-county region. The Business Times takes some space on these pages to pay tribute to all the innovative ways our businesses and nonprofits have found to raise money for earthquake relief for Haiti. Rather than Read More →
Not drilling leaves money on the table
ke for the state Land Board to spurn a hard-fought agreement between South Coast environmentalists and PXP over the future of the so-called Tranquillon Ridge project. To refresh, the agreement would have allowed PXP to drill new wells on an existing platform and drain the field in return for abandonment of the platform and an Read More →
Follow Direct Relief
Haitian officials are hearing reports that scores of thousands may have died in the powerful earthquake that struck the country. Many more may have been injured and made homeless. News reports tell of survivors without food and water digging the dead and injured from the rubble with their bare hands. As governments were readying responses, Read More →
Storm runoff rules threaten property rights
Property rights rapidly are becoming the newest endangered freedom in Ventura County. As Stephen Nellis reported in a recent edition of the Business Times, new stormwater runoff rules are threatening to wreak havoc with development and even redevelopment plans in Ventura County. These rules would require builders to deal with 75 percent of rainwater runoff on-site, Read More →
Confirm Maldonado already
At press time, the California Legislature had not acted on one pressing piece of business that should be a no-brainer — the confirmation of Sen. Abel Maldonado as Lieutenant Governor. Our position was made clear when the capable Santa Maria Republican was nominated last year to fill a seat that was vacated by termed-out John Read More →
Waiting on the man with answers
Writing in the New York Times on Dec. 27, financial columnist Gretchen Morgenson asked some important questions about Camarillo resident Bob Parry, a former president of the San Francisco Fed who served as a director of Countrywide Financial after he retired. Morgenson wonders what Parry was doing as Countrywide veered toward disaster and why he Read More →
