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Henry Dubroff

Henry Dubroff is the chairman, editor and majority owner of the Pacific Coast Business Times.


| Friday, July 17th, 2015

Oxnard peaker plant should be approved

Editorials, Energy, Opinion

The California Public Utilities Commission held a relatively rare session in Oxnard on July 15 to weigh the pros and cons of replacing aging power stations at Mandalay Beach with a new peaker plant to be operated by NRG. This has been a contentious issue. The city of Oxnard doesn’t like it, the social justice Read More →

| Friday, July 17th, 2015

New staff, new project at the Pacific Coast Business Times

Columns

We’ve quietly made some big changes at the Business Times during the past few months, so I thought I’d exercise my editor’s prerogative and introduce our new staff and one of our new projects. Our staff changes begin with Managing Editor Glenn Rabinowitz. A 25-year veteran of the daily newspaper industry in California and more Read More →

| Friday, July 17th, 2015

Banks bet that merger will bolster stock price

Banking & Finance, Banking Industry, Latest news, Top Stories, Tri-County Public Companies

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| Wednesday, July 15th, 2015

American Riviera Bank, The Bank of Santa Barbara plan to merge

Banking & Finance, Banking Industry, Latest news, Top Stories, Tri-County Public Companies

The banking picture on the South Coast got a bit clearer on July 15 when American Riviera Bank and The Bank of Santa Barbara announced an all-stock transaction that will combine the two lending institutions. The proposed merger, which still needs shareholder and regulatory approval, will combine two smaller companies into a three-branch community bank Read More →

| Friday, July 10th, 2015

As the world turns, so does the U.S. economy

Editorials, Opinion

What in the world is going on? At press time, the New York Stock Exchange was having technical difficulties, United Airlines had just resumed flying after a computer malfunction, Greece was on the precipice of leaving the Eurozone and China’s stock market was in a free fall. That’s a heck of an interruption to what Read More →

| Friday, July 10th, 2015

Dubroff: Flying the not so friendly skies as airlines probed for collusion

Columns

Reports that Justice Department officials are looking into whether the nation’s four largest airlines conspired to keep airline ticket prices high by manipulating capacity come as little surprise to this frequent flyer. As a person who flies from somewhere in the region to Denver most weeks, I’ve seen first-hand how much the choices for travel Read More →

| Friday, July 3rd, 2015

Dubroff: Litigation, criminal probe could put squeeze on oil pipeline operator

Central Coast, Columns, Law & Goverment, South Coast, Tourism, Tri-County Economy

When Barry Cappello litigates, people listen. Which is why his June 23 lawsuit seeking class action status and unspecified damages against Plains All American Pipeline may prove to be a turning point in the sorry history of the Refugio oil spill. “It was a disaster waiting to happen again and again,” is the way Cappello Read More →