Green Awards kick off
UncategorizedThe San Luis Obispo Chamber of Commerce announced that it will recognize six businesses for their environmental leadership with its annual Green Awards. The chamber is currently seeking nominations for the awards. Businesses, organizations and individuals who work to be green by reducing pollution, improving resource conservation and sustainability or improving air and water Read More →
Your right to know
OpinionThe Business Times Web site received quite a bit of flak from our recent story on a bankruptcy filing involving Montecito’s Klink family. We’ll take a minute to state something that should be obvious — a bankruptcy filing is a public document, which provides any media outlet with an absolute privilege to publish the information Read More →
Let them eat cupcakes
Small BusinessCall it comfort food if you will, but cupcakes may just be the perfect recession-proof little indulgences. In the Tri-Counties, cupcake bakeries – or cupcakeries – have proliferated over the past two years, and their owners say they’re only getting more popular. Maybe it’s because the HBO series “Sex and the City” shows its characters Read More →
Fueling the future
UncategorizedCalifornia has long been famed for its sun, sand and surf, but Dutch financial giant Rabobank is only concentrating on the sunshine. The Netherlands-based bank teamed up with a solar power company from the Bay Area to install a network of solar-powered electric vehicle recharging stations that would let drivers travel from Los Angeles to Read More →
