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Editorial Department


| Monday, July 19th, 2010

Ventura College sues contractor on new science wing for $12M

Columns

The Ventura Community College District is suing the architect and contractor for its new Ventura College health and science complex for breach of contract and professional negligence, asking for damages of about $12 million. According to a complaint filed June 25 in Ventura County Superior Court, the college hired Omaha, Neb.-based engineering and design firm Read More →

| Monday, July 19th, 2010

SLO reboots: Fresh wave of tech firms take hold

Top Stories

San Luis Obispo is relaunching as SLO 2.0. Over the past decade, San Luis Obispo and the nearby Five Cities area have blossomed as a mini tech hub, with companies such as MindBody (see accompanying article), Shopatron and REC Solar propelling the area forward. Although the San Luis Obispo area struggled throughout the recession, in part Read More →

| Monday, July 19th, 2010

Editorial: A tasty billion as CKE goes private

Opinion

It’s always hard to swallow the loss of a publicly traded company. But that’s what happened on July 12, when CKE Restaurants went private after tossing in the napkin and agreeing to be gobbled up by an affiliate of Wall Street financier Leon Black’s Apollo Management empire. We’ll take a minute to wish CEO Andy Read More →

| Monday, July 19th, 2010

Maldonado to keynote Spirit of Small Business Awards

Columns

I’m really pleased to report that I’ll be welcoming a fellow small business owner to the podium to keynote the 8th Annual Spirit of Small Business Awards luncheon this year on Thursday, Aug. 12. Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado, whose political career I’ve followed with great interest for the past decade, will be this year’s Spirit Read More →

| Monday, July 19th, 2010

Santa Barbara researchers to test artificial pancreas

Top Stories

Santa Barbara will soon host trials of a first-ever artificial pancreas being developed by researchers at UC Santa Barbara and Sansum Diabetes Research Institute to help treat type 1 diabetes. Under development for the past several years in Santa Barbara, the artificial pancreas is now in clinical trials around the globe. Much of the funding Read More →

| Monday, July 19th, 2010

Editorial: Time to heal after trauma center debate

Opinion

After a sometimes contentious fight, Ventura County has the framework for a trauma care system in place. In recent weeks, the county Board of Supervisors approved Level II trauma centers for Ventura County Medical Center in Ventura and Los Robles Medical Center in Thousand Oaks. That gives both the east and west counties a designated Read More →

| Monday, July 12th, 2010

Message on a bottle: New Paso Robles firm takes the paper out of wine labels

Small Business

A Paso Robles start-up is breaking into the region’s wine industry by creating custom wine bottle labels printed directly on glass. Peltier Glassworks was founded recently by Adam and Marisa Peltier, a husband-and-wife team who both graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. It’s the only glass silk screening company on the Central Coast, Adam Read More →