CSUCI, SBCC get multimillion-dollar gifts from MacKenzie Scott
Amazon billionaire MacKenzie Scott gave away another $2.7 billion on June 15, including $20 million for Santa Barbara City College and $15 million for CSU Channel Islands near Camarillo. Scott announced the new round of gifts with a blog post that lists all 286 recipients, most of them public institutions and private nonprofits in higher Read More →
AeroVironment moves headquarters out of Simi Valley
Fifty years after it was founded and two and a half after it moved to Simi Valley, the drone developer and manufacturer AeroVironment is moving its headquarters to Arlington, Virginia, effective immediately. The company made the announcement with an early morning news release on June 15. “The greater Washington D.C. area is where many of Read More →
Our View: A better way to build in fire-prone regions
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Region’s universities strive for workplace inclusiveness
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Pride’s new faces in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties
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Morro Bay stacks could go up in smoke under new agreement with battery project developer
The city of Morro Bay and Vistra Energy have reached an agreement that smoothes out several roadblocks that stood in the way of Vistra’s proposal to build the world’s largest battery storage facility on the Central Coast. Vistra and city staff members reached a memorandum of understanding that was approved by the Morro Bay City Read More →
New name, new plan for economic growth at Vandenberg
People from the private and public sectors believe the newly renamed Vandenberg Space Force Base has the potential to shape the Central Coast economy, and on June 3, those leaders laid out the first phase of their plan. At the online event, REACH — the Regional Economic Action Coalition, a San Luis Obispo-based economic development Read More →
