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Erika Martin


| Friday, November 21st, 2014

Op/ed: What’s ‘right’ and what’s ‘left’ in national political scene

Op/Eds, Opinion

Bloomberg View’s Cass Sunstein reports on research showing that “partyism” is now an even deeper social division in American society than racism. Political commentator Jonathan Chait thinks that’s just fine: He wouldn’t want his child to marry a Republican.

| Friday, November 21st, 2014

Ceres still spending, but looks to generate revenue

Agribusiness, East Ventura County, Latest news, Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Public Companies

Sitting in public-company-listing limbo with a listing deadline on its current stock price, Thousand Oaks-based energy crop producer Ceres will attempt to continue its numerous pricey research projects by balancing them with new revenue streams.

| Friday, November 21st, 2014

Teenage powerhouse revolutionizes cinemas for hearing impaired

East Ventura County, Latest news, Small Business, Subscriber content, Technology, Top Stories, Women Inc.

Valedictorian will be an afterthought on resumes for Alexandra Kukoff, a half-deaf, 15-year-old Thousand Oaks-native who is attending high school and college simultaneously, working towards her associate’s degree in women’s history.

| Friday, November 14th, 2014

Court levies $25M penalty on Conejo Valley firm

East Ventura County, Latest news, Subscriber content, Top Stories

In a written opinion entered Sept. 18, the court found that 110,000 consumers had bought the defendants’ program and “more than 99.8 percent never earned any commission whatsoever.”

| Friday, November 14th, 2014

Spinal fusion kit is latest innovation from ECA Medical

Health Care & Life Science, Latest news, Small Business, Subscriber content, Technology, Top Stories

ECA Medical Instruments, a designer and manufacturer of single-procedure torque-limiting surgical kits and other medical devices, is producing the world’s first single-procedure spinal fusion kit.

| Friday, November 7th, 2014

Practical prestige: Innovation can be pricey, but pays off

Columns, Latest news, Technology, Top Stories

If continuing research can change the amount of energy we expect our consumer electronics to consume as much as Nakamura’s LEDs have changed the way we think of light bulbs, the university will more than recover Munger’s donation money in patent licensing and added prestige.

| Friday, October 31st, 2014

Hitting a home run at TechPitch

Latest news, Technology, Top Stories

Superior Solutions grabbed judges’ attention with the marketability and built-out business model for its LiftGator, a pick-up truck attachment that eases heavy lifting for which it had already raised $25,000 of its initial $55,000 seed round.