October 10, 2025

		

Editorial Department


| Monday, June 7th, 2010

Editorial: Get thee to a polling place

Opinion

There’s a lot at stake in this year’s June 8 primary. Because gerrymandering is still the name of the game, primary winners in several legislative districts will have a virtual lock on the November election. Key primaries include the Democratic side in the 35th Assembly District, which covers parts of Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, Read More →

| Monday, June 7th, 2010

Editorial: Have a scoop, stand up to union coneheads

Opinion

With summer on the way, it’s time to eat ice cream. And we can’t think of a better place to try your favorite flavor than Doc Burnstein’s Ice Cream Lab in Arroyo Grande. For reasons that are so obscure as to be plainly stupid, Doc Burnstein’s has been the target of banners and protests by Read More →

| Monday, June 7th, 2010

Tri-county tourism on the rebound

Top Stories

Economists can argue all day about the precise end of this recession, but in the travel and tourism sector, the tri-county region’s biggest private industry, the numbers point very clearly to the spring of 2010. Even for hoteliers who remember the post-Sept. 11 slump, 2009 was one of the most relentlessly horrible years in memory. Read More →

| Monday, June 7th, 2010

A solid business: Wood flooring company looks to region

Top Stories

For Morgan & Teach Plank Co., the wood business is good business. At a time when tri-county companies have struggled and some have shuttered or left the region, Morgan & Teach has snapped up a State Street storefront in Santa Barbara to show off its high-end wood flooring. And President James Tinghitella wants to move Read More →

| Monday, May 31st, 2010

The blood

Uncategorized

Santa Barbara-based BioIQ has signed a deal with UnitedHealthcare to provide the South Coast firm’s at-home health screening kits to as many as 11 million UHC customers. BioIQ’s packets require a pin prick and a few drops of blood to test for conditions such as diabetes, cancer, heart disease and kidney disease. But what drives Read More →

| Monday, May 31st, 2010

Ten years down the road, Palms center in Oxnard turning around

Columns

The very first issue of the Business Times 10 years ago took a hard look at the ailing Oxnard Factory Outlet along Highway 101. At the time, the shopping center looked like a ghost town. It was losing the fight against the newly opened Camarillo Premium Outlets and had struggled for years with declining profits, Read More →

| Monday, May 31st, 2010

Omaha, land of Buffett and jobs aplenty

Columns

Imagine a state where the unemployment rate is 5 percent. Where large corporations are not contemplating moving out because of high taxes. Where housing prices are affordable and stable. Where public universities promote their famous graduates at tourist destinations. Such a state doesn’t need to be imagined. It actually exists. The full version of this Read More →