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By Editorial Board / Monday, September 27th, 2010 / Editorials, Opinion / Comments Off on Editorial: For SLO’s prosperity, vote no on Measure H
In recent years, a relative bright spot for the San Luis Obispo economy has been a spurt of development along Broad Street and Tank Farm Road in the area south of the city center. Although this area is quite a distance from the Cal Poly campus, it has become a bit of a hub for Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, September 27th, 2010 / Opinion / Comments Off on Editorial: Jail tax a necessary pain
In Santa Barbara County, an unusually broad coalition is backing Measure S, a public safety initiative that would at last give the Santa Maria Valley a viable way to lock up criminals. There is no doubt that Measure S has a hefty price tag. It would increase the sales tax by half a cent for Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, September 27th, 2010 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Governet connects colleges
Santa Barbara-based Governet has won a contract to provide its curriculum software to the entire countrywide system of the United Arab Emirates Higher Colleges of Technology. Governet’s software, CurricUNET, is a Web-based system that automates the once paper-intensive process of developing and approving new courses in higher education. Seventy-four of 112 community colleges in California Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, September 27th, 2010 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Congressional crush: Wineries fight direct shipping restrictions
It’s the week before wine crush and Tablas Creek Vineyard General Manager Jason Haas is worried. Not about the grape harvest, or this year’s vintage, but about a looming piece of congressional legislation. HR 5034, the Comprehensive Alcohol Regulatory Effectiveness Act of 2010, or CARE, is a bill that would cede control of wine shipping Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, September 27th, 2010 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Occam to stay in Goleta after merger
The Northern California company set to buy Goleta-based Occam Networks in a $171 million deal says it will keep the company’s engineering staff on the South Coast and in Fremont largely intact after the merger. “We will continue to have an operation and engineering in Santa Barbara,” said Geoff Burke, marketing director for the buyer, Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, September 27th, 2010 / Columns / Comments Off on Apartments a bright spot in South Coast real estate market
The South Coast apartment market has seen more than $77 million in property sales this year, according to commercial real estate brokers at Radius Group’s Santa Barbara County Real Estate and Economic Outlook on Sept. 16. The largest sale was the $37.4 million purchase of the Fontainebleu apartments in Isla Vista. Chicago-based Blue Vista Capital Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, September 27th, 2010 / Columns / Comments Off on Power-One shows California lacks spark
It’s hard to find a better turnaround story than Power-One. The Camarillo-based company took a secondary product line from an Italian company it had purchased and bet the farm on a new line of business — producing devices called inverters that are crucial to regulating the power output of wind turbines and solar panel arrays. Read More →
