A summer that changed everything
Grab the nearest calendar. Find a sharpie. Put a big thick line through August 2010. For those of us who are neurotic enough to follow the banking game, we are witnessing a once-in-a-decade event: A complete realignment of financial services in the tri-county region. The collapse of Los Padres Bank and its sale to Pacific Read More →
Melton
Mark Melton has grown his cleaning business into a tidy little tri-county empire over the past decade, sweeping in $19.8 million in revenue last year. Carpinteria-based Melton Franchise Systems, a master franchisor for Coverall Health Based Cleaning Systems and owner of the Molly Maid business in the region, made the No. 19 spot on the Read More →
Designed for success: Top minds at RKS Design share their secrets
Over the past 30 years, Thousand Oaks-based RKS Design has proved it knows how to design stuff. It’s won nearly every award in the industrial design world. It’s helped turn around troubled companies. A rethinking of the controls on Amana’s washing machines, for example, added about 30 cents in costs but helped swing the appliance Read More →
Editorial: Let the sun shine on city, county salaries
The Bell scandal has put public payrolls in the spotlight. That’s why the Pacific Coast Business Times has connected the dots up and down the Tri-County region, with a comprehensive survey on city manager and county executive officer pay. Our survey was conducted over the past few weeks under the direction of Executive Editor Tony Read More →
Editorial: Goodbye and good luck
For the past six years, we’ve gotten to know and respect Ashish Vaidya, who rose through the ranks to become dean of the faculty at CSU Channel Islands. He’s a thoughtful economist with a knack for reading the thoughts that are in the minds of those in the audience at his public talks on global Read More →
Public-sector pay data
Public-sector top executive pay – For the original story, "Public-sector manager pay adds up," with accompanying charts and data, click here.
Social business heavyweight Reitz visits CSUCI
In the space of six months, CSU Channel Islands has now played host to perhaps the two biggest names in the field of social business, the philosophy that says investing money can do more for the world than giving it away. Hans Reitz was on campus Aug. 26 to teach a seminar on social business, Read More →
