November 4, 2025

		

Jorge Mercado

Jorge Mercado is a staff writer with the Business Times. His beats include technology, agriculture, cannabis, energy and the environment, and higher education.


| Thursday, July 17th, 2025

UCSB names new chancellor

Higher Education, Latest news, Santa Barbara County, Top Stories, Top Story

UC Santa Barbara named its sixth chancellor on July 17 when the university announced that Dr. Dennis Assanis has been approved by the UC Board of Regents to be UCSB’s next man in charge. Assanis, who is succeeding longtime Chancellor Henry Yang, will assume his new role on September 1. The UC Regents also approved Assanis’s Read More →

| Monday, July 14th, 2025

Ventura’s The Trade Desk joins S&P 500 index

Latest news, Technology, Tri-County Public Companies, Ventura County

Shares of The Trade Desk received a nice bump in after-hours trading on July 14 after it was announced that the ad-tech company would be joining the S&P 500 beginning on July 18. The Trade Desk, which first went public in 2016, saw shares close at $75.43 on July 14 and then saw those same Read More →

| Monday, July 14th, 2025

Highest paid execs: Amgen’s longtime CEO leads area leaders in pay

Central Coast, Latest news, Subscriber content, Technology, Tri-County Economy, Tri-County Public Companies

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| Monday, July 14th, 2025

CEQA rollbacks face stiff reality test

Central Coast, Latest news, middle, Real Estate, Subscriber content

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| Saturday, July 12th, 2025

CSUCI Professor arrested among Glass House raids

Central Coast, Higher Education, Latest news, left

Jonathan Caravello, a professor at CSU Channel Islands, was among one of the more than 200 people arrested from the federal agent’s raid of Glass House Farms’ operations in both Carpinteria and Camarillo on July 10. In a statement, the California Faculty Association said that Caravello, according to witnesses, was arrested on July 10 after Read More →

| Friday, July 11th, 2025

Good works: 30 Central Coast restaurants receive impactful grants

Central Coast, Columns, Latest news, Nonprofits, Subscriber content

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| Friday, July 11th, 2025

CRE: Additional Rite Aid closures hit Central Coast

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