Tri-county’s Black-owned businesses gaining support
The community is uniting to offer support to Black-owned businesses in the Tri-Counties as protests against police brutality and COVID-19 sweep the nation. The protests, which erupted after video showed 46-year-old George Floyd being choked to death by a Minneapolis police officer, follow months of stagnant activity due the coronavirus that tanked the U.S. economy. Read More →
Tri-county tech startups join effort to distribute PPE
Tech startups across the Tri-Counties and Greater Los Angeles combined forces to raise some $200,000 in donations for personal protective equipment and direct it to Southern California health care systems. The effort, called SoCal Tech for SoCal Hospitals, combines the expertise of logistics and health care startups including Santa Barbara-based Well Health, and fundraising from Read More →
COVID-19 forces Pride to go virtual
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Tri-Counties enter new stage of reopening
Many more businesses in the Tri-Counties were able to reopen June 12 following changes in the state’s COVID-19 guidance. Businesses like movie theaters, zoos, museums, gyms, fitness centers, hotels (for tourism and individual travel), campgrounds and outdoor recreation will be able to reopen on the Central Coast soon. San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura Read More →
Delta Airlines halts service to Santa Barbara airport
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Eviction bans extended as more financial aid approved for renters
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Fienup: Fed putting blinders on investors’ eyes
By Matthew Fienup While the CDC is recommending face masks, the Federal Reserve is imposing blinders. Long before 40 million people filed unemployment claims as a result of government-mandated closures, indeed before any of us had even heard of COVID-19, U.S. monetary policy was already on crisis footing. The Federal Reserve failed to unwind extraordinary Read More →
