After seven years, the financial crisis quietly ends for area banks
Op/Eds, Opinion“Even the pessimists were thinking three years,” Community West CEO Marty Plourd told me. “No one expected the low-interest-rate environment to last this long,”
Santa Paula entrepreneur turns attention to Chinese attack victims
Columns, Opinion“None of the victims did anything wrong except being in the wrong place at the wrong time. This is about people helping people. We all live here,” Santa Paula resident William Irion, who frequently travels to China, told me.
Microlending founder urges business leaders to reinvest profits
Banking & Finance, Nonprofits, Top StoriesNobel Laureate and founder of Grameen Bank Muhammad Yunus never intended to create a microlending juggernaut or invent the idea of a social business. “My work was not pre-planned,” he said. “It was an action born out of desperation.”
Crazy proposals in other states leave California as the saner option
Op/Eds, OpinionWhile jobs, minimum-wage hikes and the future of work are making headlines, something else is happening on the ground in the Tri-Counties.
50 years after British Invasion, Peter Noone muses on music’s future
Columns, OpinionFor five decades, entertainer and longtime South Coast resident Peter Noone has kept alive the legacy of the band now known as Herman and the Hermits, providing the world with some of the most enduring music of the British Invasion. During the past few weeks, Noone offered to spend a bit of airplane time answering a few questions from the Business Times about his life and the music business.
Shooting for the moon, pioneer Bill Yerkes became a solar star
Columns, OpinionBuilding solar panels for the Apollo moon missions in the 1960s, John W. “Bill” Yerkes was struck by an idea that would change the way the world thinks about electricity.
