Ready, set, go for Miramar
When dirt starts to move on the Miramar Hotel project in Montecito next year, the region’s newest resort will help usher in a new era in hospitality products — smaller, niche-oriented properties that are priced for a wide range of budgets. The Miramar, along with Fess Parker’s Waterfront property, which is now under construction on Read More →
Joint ventures pay off for nonprofit sector
Let’s cut right to the chase. There are too many nonprofits in the Tri-Counties. In the best-case scenario, honest, well-meaning nonprofits are simply a little too narrowly conceived and they are a little too overhead-heavy. In the worst-case scenario, they are little fiefdoms for agenda-driven donors that simply duplicate the work of lower-cost providers. One Read More →
Budget troubles spur pessimism
Amid all the talk about bailouts and megabucks deals for automakers, there’s been precious little talk about the small-business owners who create most of America’s jobs. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is to be congratulated for convening a small business summit that presented a host of suggestions for improving access to bidding on state projects and for Read More →
Pacificor, Michael Klein
Santa Barbara hedge fund Pacificor – once headed by Michael Klein, who was killed in a plane crash in Panama in December 2007 – has been sued for $30 million by the one-time owners of Quality Home Loans. The lawsuit joins hundreds of millions of dollars being sought in legal proceedings surrounding Pacificor and Klein’s Read More →
Ampersand cuts more staff
The parent company of the Santa Barbara News-Press said Dec. 3 that it is eliminating 17 positions and consolidating operations of two other publications it owns. Ampersand Publishing LLC, which owns the News-Press and other publications, said that its Carpinteria Valley Living and Valley Voice editions will be “incorporated into the daily pages” of the Read More →
A special editor's note on the Miramar project
Julia Louis Dreyfus, aka Elaine from the Seinfeld show, is about to take her long-running protest act before the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors. Dreyfus and a few neighbors have become the hecklers in the audience at one of the most interesting dramas to unfold on the South Coast in recent years. That is Read More →
