Confessions of a Digital Heretic: Nonprofit journalism crashes the paywall
Columns, Latest newsBy Henry Dubroff When Pacific Coast Business Times staff writer Alex Kacik won a USC Annenberg School fellowship in health journalism this year, the last thing on my mind what that his project would run head-on into our paywall. But that’s precisely what happened after he wrote the first in a series of stories about Read More →
California blocks workers’ path to small business ownership
Columns, Latest news, Small BusinessThe lack of serious attention to the dismal state of small business formation in California and across the nation has been one of the most disappointing aspects of the 2016 campaign. Small business gets a lot of lip service but scant real attention. Meanwhile, the number of small business failures continues to outpace new starts. Read More →
Patagonia weighs in on climate change policies
Editorials, Latest news, OpinionIn a widely circulated New Yorker magazine profile, Patagonia co-founder Yvon Chouinard fumed this summer about Hillary Clinton’s acceptance speech at the Democratic Party convention — complaining that including just one sentence about climate change fell far short of the mark. Apparently, we haven’t heard Patagonia’s last words on the matter of politics and climate Read More →
Direct Relief International rooted in Santa Barbara
Editorials, OpinionIn a region that takes pride in its philanthropic organizations, nothing stands out like Direct Relief International. Founded as a humanitarian organization by immigrants who fled the horrors of World War II, DRI is the nation’s ninth largest U.S. charity, according to Forbes, and by most measures one of the most cost-effective organizations of its Read More →
Dubroff: CLU professor scales the summit of Central Coast economics
Columns, Higher Education, Latest newsA rock climbing expert with an innate curiosity about markets, Matthew Fienup found his calling in his mid-30s when he won admission to a doctoral program at UC Santa Barbara’s Bren School of Environmental Management. Now 41 and a professor in California Lutheran University’s Center for Economic Research & Forecasting, he’ll get a view from Read More →
Mayors deserve a say in Diablo Canyon closure
Editorials, Energy, Latest news, OpinionCities that form the heart of the San Luis Obispo County economy should not become collateral damage as PG&E works out a plan to shutter the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant. On Sept. 15, the mayors of San Luis Obispo, Morro Bay, Arroyo Grande, Atascadero, Paso Robles and Pismo Beach took what they called an “unprecedented Read More →
Dubroff: Can corporate giants ever be held accountable for misdeeds
Columns, Latest newsThe biggest economic question of our time might not be how to deal with inequality, after all. It may be how to deal with corporate giants — and their top execs — when they misbehave. The latest company to come under fire is Wells Fargo, the banking company that is ranked No. 1 or No. Read More →
