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Cancer tech advances

By   /  Monday, September 21st, 2009  /  Uncategorized  /  Comments Off on Cancer tech advances

The Cancer Center of Santa Barbara unveiled its newest piece of technology, the Novalis Tx, on Sept. 15, heralding it as the most recent groundbreaking cancer treatment technology at its disposal. The Novalis Tx platform enables doctors to use image-guided radiosurgery to offer patients fast, non-surgical treatments for cancer and other conditions in the brain, Read More →

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GreatWay presents

By   /  Saturday, September 19th, 2009  /  Uncategorized  /  Comments Off on GreatWay presents

The Best of Success roofing industry conference selected Rod Menzel for a presentation at its fifth annual conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Menzel is the founder of GreatWay Roofing, a commercial and residential roofing company. He was also selected as this year’s winner in the Green Business category for the Business Times’ Spirit of Small Business Read More →

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Dole banana saga continues

By   /  Saturday, September 19th, 2009  /  Uncategorized  /  Comments Off on Dole banana saga continues

A federal judge in Miami said he may decide that Westlake Village-based Dole Food Inc. can’t be forced to pay a Nicaraguan court’s $97 million verdict awarded to banana plantation workers, Bloomberg News reported.   In a Sept. 4 hearing, U.S. District Judge Paul C. Huck said that he didn’t see how he could sustain Read More →

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Green Coast goes to Washington

By   /  Wednesday, September 16th, 2009  /  Top Stories  /  Comments Off on Green Coast goes to Washington

WASHINGTON, D.C. — With the Obama administration nudging climate change toward the top of the political agenda, the new energy economy was a timely topic as 25 business and community leaders from the Tri-Counties convened for a day of discussions hosted by U.S. Rep. Lois Capps, D-Santa Barbara. Capps said she was encouraged by efforts Read More →

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Local economist: Real estate will unfreeze slowly

By   /  Monday, September 14th, 2009  /  Latest news  /  Comments Off on Local economist: Real estate will unfreeze slowly

Luxury home prices are likely to remain frozen at current levels for a long time, a lingering effect of the panic that disrupted financial markets a year ago, a top economist said in Santa Barbara. Speaking on the anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, California State University Channel Islands economist Sung Won Sohn said Read More →

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Civic Alliance helps stitch Ventura Co. up

By   /  Monday, September 14th, 2009  /  Opinion  /  Comments Off on Civic Alliance helps stitch Ventura Co. up

Not so very long ago, Ventura County was defined by its differences. Oxnard and Ventura came to legal blows over the future of some large retail shops that abandoned the Esplanade Mall for new digs across the Santa Clara River. Agricultural and environmental interests teamed up to pass SOAR, dealing a blow to urban interests Read More →

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The lesson learned from BuenaVentura

By   /  Monday, September 14th, 2009  /  Opinion  /  Comments Off on The lesson learned from BuenaVentura

One of the things we are learning about the current financial crisis is that banks operate best when they really operate as banks. When it was launched a year ago, Banco Buenaventura looked like a great idea for serving the Hispanic community. And we gave the brains behind the institution the benefit of the doubt Read More →