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Editorial Department


| Monday, January 25th, 2010

Donor in default on $75M gift

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Stephen Adams, owner of Affinity Group in Ventura and former owner of the failed Affinity Bank, appears to have defaulted on his $75 million gift to Westmont College, slamming the brakes on the school’s most ambitious building project in a quarter century. Though Westmont could not confirm it, Adams is believed to be the man Read More →

| Monday, January 25th, 2010

On an avocado Mission

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Oxnard-based Mission Produce is turning almost as green as its avocados. The avocado and asparagus distributor, which pulled in $226 million in revenue last year, is seeing shades of green in its future — of both the energy and monetary variety. Sales are strong, and with worldwide avocado supply projected to increase in the next Read More →

| Monday, January 25th, 2010

Investors hold breath as PCBC reports

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With Pacific Capital Bancorp’s earnings call slated for Jan. 28, investors and analysts will be looking for clarity and answers now that the bank’s most likely fate is a merger. Failing that or a big infusion of capital, a regulatory seizure looms on the horizon. On Jan. 14, Pacific Capital, the parent of Santa Barbara Read More →

| Monday, January 25th, 2010

Taser gives Carp a jolt

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Taser, maker of the handheld voltage delivery system of “don’t tase me, bro” fame, is setting up shop on the South Coast. Arizona-based Taser snapped up a former Microsoft executive and put him to work as head of the new virtual systems division in Carpinteria, where he and roughly 80 employees are working on a Read More →

| Monday, January 25th, 2010

SLO chamber envisions better days for city

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The San Luis Obispo Chamber of Commerce will have a new driving force behind it Jan. 23 when it releases its updated economic vision statement. The SLO chamber is the oldest and largest voluntary organization in the county. The new 18-page document acts as a roadmap for the chamber, which has thrown its full weight Read More →

| Monday, January 25th, 2010

Impact Radius scores $6M

Small Business

A Santa Barbara firm has just garnered a $6 million investment to see if it can shake up the broadcast, radio and print advertising world the same way its leaders shook up the online advertising world. Impact Radius has rolled out a new online platform for advertisers and media firms to buy and sell performance-based Read More →

| Monday, January 25th, 2010

NAI report: Ventura County has seen the worst of CRE woes

Columns

Ventura County’s office market is still reeling from the Countrywide collapse, according to a recently released NAI report.   Office vacancy in the county is still up, and the NAI market report puts the number around 20 percent and notes that net absorption was negative through the third quarter of 2009. “Office space is tough Read More →