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Editorial: Clean-air rules can be a disruption

By   /  Monday, October 25th, 2010  /  Editorials, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Editorial: Clean-air rules can be a disruption

News that J.W. Bailey Construction Co. in Santa Barbara was closing its doors after 60 years came as a surprise. The company had a reputation for building high-quality buildings, often in the classic Santa Barbara style. But after years of suffering with the growth curbs that are the hallmark of doing business on the South Read More →

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Editorial: Toward a unified West Ventura County chamber

By   /  Monday, October 25th, 2010  /  Editorials, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Editorial: Toward a unified West Ventura County chamber

Tom Kelley’s announced departure from the Camarillo Chamber of Commerce raises a prospect worth considering — the creation of a larger and more impactful business organization for West Ventura County. That’s why we’d encourage the boards of directors of the Oxnard, Ventura and Camarillo Chambers to consider creating a West Ventura County Chamber of Commerce. Read More →

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Foreclosure freeze won

By   /  Monday, October 25th, 2010  /  Real Estate, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy  /  Comments Off on Foreclosure freeze won

As the nation’s largest home lenders continue their self-imposed foreclosure freezes, economists in the tri-county region say the residential real estate market’s search for the bottom is being delayed. The Tri-Counties had more than 1,200 homes in foreclosure at the end of the second quarter, according to information from research firm DataQuick. That’s up more Read More →

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Foreclosure fiasco’s ground zero: Ventura County offices churned out paperwork

By   /  Monday, October 25th, 2010  /  Top Stories, Tri-County Economy  /  Comments Off on Foreclosure fiasco’s ground zero: Ventura County offices churned out paperwork

Ask her how many foreclosure documents she worked through in a day at Countrywide Financial Corp., and Linda Martins-Mann says the pace was fast. “I didn’t count how many I processed, but it was a lot,” she said. “Maybe about 500 a day.” Martins-Mann was a foreclosure technician at Countrywide’s Simi Valley offices until the Read More →

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SBA-backed deals are propping up commercial real estate market

By   /  Monday, October 25th, 2010  /  Columns, Real Estate, Small Business  /  Comments Off on SBA-backed deals are propping up commercial real estate market

Small businesses are starting to look like the heroes in the commercial real estate market’s turnaround tale. Businesses buying property for their own use, also known as owner-users, have fueled a number of deals in the Tri-Counties recently, many of them aided by financing through U.S. Small Business Administration lending programs. In Oxnard, Industrial Park Read More →

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Totaling up the hefty price tag of Mozilo

By   /  Monday, October 25th, 2010  /  Columns, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Totaling up the hefty price tag of Mozilo

The lifetime ban against former Countrywide Financial Corp. CEO Angelo Mozilo serving as an officer or director of a public company may be the most positive result to come from his settlement of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission complaint. But Mozilo’s company and his conduct created a decade-long road to economic ruin that reached Read More →

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TrueVision sets its sights on Chinese market

By   /  Monday, October 25th, 2010  /  Features, Technology  /  Comments Off on TrueVision sets its sights on Chinese market

TrueVision Systems, a Santa Barbara-based surgical technology firm, has sealed a deal to create a joint venture with a Chinese medical device company and will soon begin selling its gear in China. TrueVision makes a big-screen, 3-D display system that attaches to a surgeon’s microscope — think “Avatar” meets brain and eye surgery. The startup Read More →