Westmont neglected as donor defaults on $75M
OpinionBy any account, $75 million is a lot of money. If you are a small, Christian college laboring with recovery from a major fire and an ambitious expansion plan, it’s an enormous amount of money. Which is why the report in this issue of the Business Times that Westmont College’s mystery donor won’t be able Read More →
Green Coast summit puts iZone on map
ColumnsOn Jan. 21, some 80 business, community and educational leaders met to kick off a project that has evolved from a column in this newspaper into something called the Green Coast Innovation Zone. It was a rare moment when the leadership of all three counties — Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo — were Read More →
Region shows compassion for Haiti
OpinionWhen tragedy strikes, our region steps up. That’s one of the truly remarkable things about living and working in the tri-county region. The Business Times takes some space on these pages to pay tribute to all the innovative ways our businesses and nonprofits have found to raise money for earthquake relief for Haiti. Rather than Read More →
Taser gives Carp a jolt
UncategorizedTaser, 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 →
