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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, August 17th, 2009 / Women Inc. / Comments Off on New event runs on a fast track
June Snow had a great idea and she ran with it. Snow and her husband, Rusty, are the founders and producers of the Santa Barbara Marathon, which will hold its first race this December. The course will take runners from just west of the Camino Real Marketplace on Hollister Avenue, loop around through Goleta Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, August 17th, 2009 / Uncategorized / Comments Off on Carp fights oil
Carpinteria’s City Council voted 4-1 on Aug. 10 to appeal a defeat it suffered in a challenge to oil firm Venoco’s efforts to get a drilling initiative on the ballot this fall. The city council voted in closed session to continue its legal efforts after it lost a Santa Barbara County Superior Court case Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, August 17th, 2009 / Opinion / Comments Off on UCSB
Vice Chancellor John Wiemann is retiring, but we doubt he’s left the University of California, Santa Barbara, scene forever. For the past 14 years, Wiemann has been the eyes and ears in the community for Chancellor Henry Yang. He’s helped create the UCSB Economic Forecast Project, and he’s shaped community outreach projects on a regionwide Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, August 17th, 2009 / Top Stories / Comments Off on FDIC deadline looms for Affinity Bank
Mark your calendars, bank watchers. Aug. 20 could be a big day for Ventura-based commercial real estate lender Affinity Bank. That’s the day the bank will have to show state and federal regulators that it’s either raised a lot of money, shed a lot of troubled loans or come up with some other way to Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, August 17th, 2009 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Words from the Oracle
Oracle chairman and Santa Barbara resident Jeff Henley gave a motivational talk to teens at the start of a business leadership program sponsored by the Small Business Development Center. Henley spoke at the Lompoc Boys and Girls Club Aug. 10 to about a dozen youth members and a handful of adults as SBDC consultant for Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, August 17th, 2009 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Big cuts for small business
Just when it seemed that the credit crunch couldn’t squeeze any harder, thousands of small businesses in California found that it could. Nationwide, credit cards rates were up, bank loans were trickling out and federal aid was still slow in taking effect. And then, with a few sentences of legislation tacked on to the state Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Friday, August 14th, 2009 / Opinion / Comments Off on Oil money is ripe for the taking
When it comes to running a business, it’s generally a bad idea to leave money on the table. Not leaving money on the table means grabbing revenue that’s easy whenever it’s easy to grab it. And after witnessing the California budget meltdown this summer, it’s astonishing to see how much money the state left on Read More →
