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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, June 28th, 2010 / Opinion / Comments Off on Editorial: Small business is the real key to fixing state
A California Forward meeting for Ventura and Santa Barbara business leaders on June 16 provides a useful marker for how far California has come toward real reform — and how far it needs to go. Over the past several years, voters have overhauled the state’s method for drawing districts and, thanks in part to Lt. Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, June 28th, 2010 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Commercial foreclosures pile up in Ventura County
As multimillion-dollar foreclosures continue to hit Ventura County, commercial real estate insiders and observers are worried that the pain in the market is a long way from over. “We have a recovery in place, but it’s a very, very slow and weak recovery,” said Kirk Lesh, the senior real estate economist at California Lutheran University Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, June 28th, 2010 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Summer ales: Breweries in season in Santa Ynez Valley
A craft beer movement is brewing in the heart of Santa Barbara County’s wine country. By the end of summer, the Santa Ynez Valley — on the national radar as prime California wine country since the 2004 film “Sideways” — will have two companies brewing beer in hand-crafted batches. Figueroa Mountain Brewing Co. is retrofitting Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, June 28th, 2010 / Columns / Comments Off on Limoneira
Santa Paula-based Limoneira Co. has come a long way since its early days as a family-owned lemon grower. Today, it’s traded on Wall Street and enjoys tens of millions of dollars in sales each year. And it’s not just a citrus business — Limoneira is now one of the largest players in the tri-county real Read More →
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By Tony Biasotti / Friday, June 25th, 2010 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Robert Caron, investor and attorney, dies at 52
Robert Troy “Bobby” Caron, a Camarillo lawyer and investor who was awaiting trial on fraud charges, died June 17 after fighting brain cancer for seven years. He was 52. At various times in his career, Caron was a personal injury lawyer, a sports agent, a lawyer and adviser to boxer Fernando Vargas, a strawberry investor Read More →
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By Staff Report / Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 / Latest news / Comments Off on Towbes wins Entrepreneur of the Year honors
Breaking a five-year drought for South Coast companies, Montecito Bank & Trust owner Michael Towbes won a coveted Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for Greater Los Angeles. The awards were presented June 22 at the Beverly Hilton hotel. Towbes, who celebrated his 80th birthday last year, was the winner in the Financial Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, June 21st, 2010 / Opinion / Comments Off on Editorial: Santa Barbara, stand and be counted
The city of Santa Barbara is the latest among the region’s cities to review and update its general plan. The next public meetings are on June 22 and June 23 at 630 Garden St. This is a chance to create a denser, more energy efficient and more prosperous city that better attends to the needs Read More →
