Windset Farms readies first tomato crop
Windset Farms’ 3 million-square-foot greenhouse — one of the largest hothouse tomato facilities in the United States — is up and running in Santa Maria. The first crop of tomatoes will be ready for picking in mid-October, Windset President Steven Newell said on Friday. The tomatoes were planted in August in what Newell calls “Greenhouse Read More →
Editorial: Ventura parking debate hot topic in election
Parking, or perhaps more precisely, parking meters, could be a stealth issue in Ventura’s City Council race.
Guest op/ed: Cuts to reimbursement will be devastating to state’s health care
The action of the California Legislature would put the Medicare and MediCal programs on life support.
Guest op/ed: Heavy burden of regulation is weighing economy down
Destructive government fiscal and monetary policies are clearly hurting the economy, but overregulation is an unnecessarily self-inflicted wound that can quickly be cured.
South Coast sales activity slows to crawl after early 2011 boom
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Area banker tells Fed chair how grim it is
Santa Barbara resident and California Bankers Association President Rod Brown recently met with Ben Bernanke.
Santa Barbara restaurateurs profiled in book talk about avoiding kitchen nightmares
Two of the partners behind Santa Barbara’s Arch Rock Fish restaurant share their recipes for success in a new book about culinary entrepreneurs.
