Reeling in the years: Northern Trust marks 20th on South Coast
In 1988, George H.W. Bush was elected president, a first-class postage stamp cost 22 cents and the Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series. That also was the year Northern Trust’s Santa Barbara office received its banking charter. The Chicago-based firm marked two decades in California with a Sept. 25 celebration at its office at Read More →
Wind firm projects 300 jobs in Ventura Co.
Jim Winsayer has ambitious plans: to create hundreds of jobs and begin building a factory to make wind energy turbines in the Tri-Counties, all within the next year. Winsayer heads Santa Barbara-based Continental Wind Power, which aims to make mid-sized wind turbines for large power consumers such as factories, farms, and county and city governments. Read More →
A return to
No two bailouts are exactly the same. And when it comes comparing the savings and loan era Resolution Trust Corp. to the $700 billion banking industry rescue now before Congress, there is one difference that really stands out. Back in the stone age of 1988, when we were merely trying to take care of regional Read More →
Forecast looks to the north
At the Santa Barbara County 2008 Real Estate and Economic Outlook, three area experts focused a substantial portion of their talks on the residential crisis concentrated in the north county. Experts said declining property values will take toll on both homeowners and county revenues, but buyers are better off, as plummeting prices have encouraged increased Read More →
CSUCI, Hartley put new spin on music
With the music industry fragmenting into smaller and smaller niches, a new generation of artists is looking for ways to make money by selling songs online for 99 cents a pop or getting corporate sponsors for free music sites on the Web. California State University, Channel Islands, wants to lure up-and-coming talent to its campus Read More →
As crush gets under way, labs try to limit production flaws
Wine goes back to biblical times, but today’s wineries are digging into the chemical properties and hi-tech tools of the future to transform their wine into precisely calculated products. Hundreds of wineries large and small across the Tri-Counties have been turning to two regional wine lab companies, Baker Wine & Grape Analysis and Vinquiry, to Read More →
