Suit dismissed accusing Edison of starting Mountain Fire
A class action lawsuit alleging that Southern California Edison’s equipment sparked the recent Mountain Fire in Ventura County has been dismissed, according to the utility and the law firm which filed it. “We have confirmed that this complaint has been dismissed,” Edison said in a Nov. 19 letter to the California Public Utilities Commission. The Read More →
Central Coast unemployment rate largely unaffected in October
After finally seeing the unemployment rate dip in the month of September, the unemployment rate didn’t see much change in the 30 days after, according to the latest data from the California Employment Development Department. Released Nov. 15, the unemployment rate of the tri-counties was at 4.36% for the month of October, up very slightly from an unemployment rate Read More →
Local shops prep for Small Business Saturday, holiday season
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Strong quarter from Inogen helps stock climb double digits
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Former Inogen founder Brenton Taylor leaves Next Energy
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Mountain Fire losses mount; recovery begins
“In the end, it’s just a house,” Jim Blois, CEO of Blois Construction in Oxnard, said. Blois’s home in Camarillo Heights was one of, at last count, nearly 220 structures destroyed in the Mountain Fire which erupted Nov. 6 in the unincorporated Somis area northeast of Camarillo. Fueled by fierce Santa Ana winds, the fire Read More →
Dubroff: Behind the daunting economics of disaster recovery
The Mountain Fire struck Ventura County just one month shy of seven years after the Thomas Fire devastated a 70-mile front that stretched from Fillmore to Goleta. Five days later as the Business Times went to press, some 300 structures suffered damage, hundreds of people remained inside evacuation areas and the long, slow effort of Read More →
