Santa Barbara’s El Encanto leads new wave of luxury hotels
Columns, TourismThe South Coast quietly ushered in a new era of luxury hotel construction on Dec. 18 when Orient-Express took the wraps off the rebuilt and remodeled El Encanto, a once-faded gem located on Santa Barbara’s Riviera. With a few dozen media types, movers and shakers, and Mayor Helene Schneider looking on, Orient-Express Regional Managing Director Read More →
Middle-class retailers are being squeezed out of the shopping scene
Columns, OpinionA pre-holiday walk up and down State Street in Santa Barbara gives a pretty good cross section of what’s happening in retail stores across the nation.
Bank profits pay Community Dividends as $1M event salutes 10 years
Columns, OpinionMore than a decade ago, banker and developer Michael Towbes came up with the idea of turning Montecito Bank & Trust into an S Corporation.
Rollins: South Coast a fertile field for cloud computing
Latest news, TechnologyCloud computing companies are remaking the technology landscape of the Tri-Counties and creating a “fertile” environment for entrepreneurs and computer scientists. That was the message serial entrepreneur and investor Woody Rollins brought to about 150 area executives on Nov. 6 as California Lutheran University hosted the first Santa Barbara version of its successful Corporate Leaders Read More →
Control of Congress is the bottom line for two Central Coast races
Columns, OpinionThere is just one reason why House Speaker John Boehner has been on the Central Coast stumping for GOP Congressional candidates Abel Maldonado and Sen. Tony Strickland.
Here are five key issues to watch closely this economic forecast season
Columns, Health Care & Life Science, OpinionIn an effort to cut through the noise to some real issues facing our region, I’ll offer up five of the key indicators that I’ll be watching in the weeks ahead.
