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Santa Paula entrepreneur turns attention to Chinese attack victims

By   /  Friday, March 7th, 2014  /  Columns, Opinion  /  No Comments

Henry Dubroff

“None of the victims did anything wrong except being in the wrong place at the wrong time. This is about people helping people. We all live here,” Santa Paula resident William Irion, who frequently travels to China, told me.

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Microlending founder urges business leaders to reinvest profits

By   /  Friday, February 28th, 2014  /  Banking & Finance, Nonprofits, Top Stories  /  1 Comment

Muhammad Yunus at the World Economic Forum in 2012 (Wikipedia Commons photo licensed under Creative Commons: http://bit.ly/1jGyfFU)

Nobel Laureate and founder of Grameen Bank Muhammad Yunus never intended to create a microlending juggernaut or invent the idea of a social business. “My work was not pre-planned,” he said. “It was an action born out of desperation.”

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Crazy proposals in other states leave California as the saner option

By   /  Friday, February 28th, 2014  /  Op/Eds, Opinion  /  No Comments

Henry Dubroff

While jobs, minimum-wage hikes and the future of work are making headlines, something else is happening on the ground in the Tri-Counties.

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50 years after British Invasion, Peter Noone muses on music’s future

By   /  Friday, February 21st, 2014  /  Columns, Opinion  /  No Comments

Henry Dubroff

For five decades, entertainer and longtime South Coast resident Peter Noone has kept alive the legacy of the band now known as Herman and the Hermits, providing the world with some of the most enduring music of the British Invasion. During the past few weeks, Noone offered to spend a bit of airplane time answering a few questions from the Business Times about his life and the music business.

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Shooting for the moon, pioneer Bill Yerkes became a solar star

By   /  Friday, February 14th, 2014  /  Columns, Opinion  /  No Comments

Henry Dubroff

Building solar panels for the Apollo moon missions in the 1960s, John W. “Bill” Yerkes was struck by an idea that would change the way the world thinks about electricity.

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The case for a defined contribution pension system in California

By   /  Friday, February 7th, 2014  /  Columns, Opinion  /  Comments Off

Henry Dubroff

Grass-roots efforts underway in Ventura County and a few other places may lead California to start junking its expensive and debt-ridden pension system in favor of a 401(k)-like substitute.

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Political scuffle spotlights Goleta revenue-sharing deal with county

By   /  Friday, January 24th, 2014  /  Columns, Opinion  /  Comments Off

Henry Dubroff

Renegotiating the RNA has emerged as a potentially explosive issue in the 2014 election where Goleta City Councilman Roger Aceves is challenging incumbent Janet Wolf for the 2nd District seat, which represents part of Goleta.

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