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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, February 1st, 2010 / Nonprofits / Comments Off on Abuse survivor advocates for cause
Tracy Sanginiti didn’t look like the kind of woman who would be pushed around. Young and sharp, she was the catering director at a hotel in Northern California and the breadwinner of her household. To outsiders, her future looked bright — but her life had a much darker side to it. “I wore a Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, February 1st, 2010 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Recession
The faltering economy continued to devastate air travel totals in 2009, but one regional airport said the economic tailspin may have actually helped it in the long run. Year-to-date declines in tri-county passengers ranged from 25 percent in Oxnard to roughly 9 percent in Santa Barbara thanks to higher fuel costs, flight cutbacks and fewer Read More →
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By Stephen Nellis / Monday, February 1st, 2010 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Distenfield takes stand in bankruptcy
Ira and Linda Distenfield asked the American people to trust them with their legal documents. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, they built We the People, their discount legal filing business, into a nationwide chain of more than 1,000 stores. They garnered the endorsement of Rudy Giuliani and inked a deal to sell their Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, February 1st, 2010 / Columns / Comments Off on Real estate firms deliver relief, one square foot at a time
Two Santa Barbara-based real estate firms are doing their part to help Direct Relief International’s Haitian relief efforts. After a magnitude-7 earthquake struck the small island nation on Jan. 12, Goleta-based nonprofit DRI started receiving an enormous amount of aid – pharmaceuticals and other medical supplies – but had nowhere to put it. “We already Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, February 1st, 2010 / Columns / Comments Off on Giving small banks a path to profitability
In the film “Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World,” Jack Aubrey, played by Russell Crowe, cleverly jokes about “choosing the lesser to two weevils.” When it comes to banking the choice is not quite so clever, but just as clear. Banks, especially those deemed “too big to fail” must go back into Read More →
