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Guest Commentary


| Friday, January 11th, 2013

Op/ed: Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, and Congress

Op/Eds, Opinion

By Billie Greer on Jan. 11, 2013 Butch Cassidy: Alright. I’ll jump first. Sundance Kid: No. Butch Cassidy: Then you jump first. Sundance Kid: No, I said. Butch Cassidy: What’s the matter with you? Sundance Kid: I can’t swim. Butch Cassidy: Are you crazy? The fall will probably kill you. So went the dialogue as Read More →

| Friday, December 14th, 2012

Op/ed: Three steps to prioritizing your company’s charitable giving this season

Op/Eds, Opinion

By Cynder Sinclair on December 14, 2012 This time of year most businesses find their mailboxes and inboxes overflowing with donation pleas. It seems like more requests come your way every year. There are so many good causes, especially in the Tri-Counties. How can you decide which organizations to give to? As a business person Read More →

| Friday, November 16th, 2012

Op/ed: Why Jon Stewart’s ‘softer cushion for failure’ will create jobs

Op/Eds, Opinion

Would-be entrepreneurs with families or pre-existing conditions are being blocked from self-employment.

| Friday, November 2nd, 2012

Letter: Goleta’s Measure G would not stifle growth

Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Dear Editor: This is in response to the Pacific Coast Business Times’ editorial on Oct. 26 that opposed Goleta’s Measure G2012. We begin by thanking the newspaper, whom we contacted to clear up a misconception. As a correction has since indicated, Measure G2012 is extremely limited in that it does not affect 121 agricultural parcels Read More →

| Friday, October 19th, 2012

Op/ed: Regulations alone won’t instill ethics in corporate America

Op/Eds, Opinion

The bottom line is that ethical behavior cannot be legislated.

| Friday, October 12th, 2012

Letter: SB County needs to restore private-sector job balance

Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Seventy-one percent of the top 25 employers provide government jobs.

| Friday, September 21st, 2012

Op/ed: Let’s look at the world as something other than scorched earth

Op/Eds, Opinion

By Scott Harris on September 21, 2012 My wife and I recently spent a very enjoyable weekend in a small resort town in California. The town was beautiful, the people were great and the scenery was fantastic. As we drove in, we fell in love with the mountainsides, the deep forests with huge old-growth trees Read More →