CSUCI president juggles budget, growth
California State University, Channel Islands, prepared a year ago to absorb the severe budget cuts enacted recently in Sacramento, and it will weather “a winter of our discontent,” university President Richard Rush told members of the Camarillo business community Feb. 27. Speaking at the annual CSUCI Connection Luncheon organized by the Camarillo Chamber of Commerce Read More →
Prime location still the pits – Plans to develop lower State St. corner in the works
The incomparable view of the Santa Barbara waterfront is something tourists flock to see, and soon they may have something decent to look at in the other direction as well. The construction site taking up three of the corners at the intersection of State and Mason streets has been a barren wasteland in recent years, Read More →
Sun powers Paso winery – J. Lohr cuts carbon emissions by 30,000 tons
Back in the 1980s, J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines was among the first crop of firms to realize that great red wines could grow in Paso Robles. Now the company is leading the way in harvesting the area’s solar energy. Late last month, J. Lohr unveiled a three-acre solar installation that will track the sun Read More →
You
The digital revolution rid daily life of most of its paper documents, but the wood-based stuff persists in one arena: mail. Westlake Village’s Zumbox wants to change that and save time, money and trees. Zumbox has created a digital mailbox for every street address in the country. It’s hoping billers, government, newspapers and – most Read More →
Obama must pay more attention to small businesses
Every year roughly 600,000 people start new businesses in the United States. Every year about 500,000 businesses shut their doors. That small window of opportunity between the doors that open and the doors that close contains between 50 percent and 80 percent of all the jobs created in our country. I am laying out these Read More →
Mission
Though the recently completed Mission San Luis Obispo retrofitting project’s budget was originally estimated at almost $2.8 million, project manager John Fowler somehow managed to come in more than $400,000 under budget. And it wasn’t just a fluke. Fowler said he may have come in $2 million to $3 million under budget for a similar Read More →
Give bankruptcy judges right to impose sanctions
Now that the Obama administration has opened the door to reducing the home mortgage interest deduction for taxpayers earning more than $250,000 per year, we’ll throw another idea up against the wall and see if it sticks. Jeff Dinkin, a Santa Barbara attorney, has suggested that people who file fraudulent applications for mortgages or speculate Read More →
