Music industry turns up the volume in region
UncategorizedOver the past decade, the digital revolution upended the recorded music business and the industry’s biggest players have struggled to find a business model. But that same digital revolution has opened a plethora of new ways to scratch out a living making, recording or promoting music. The future shape of the music business is being Read More →
Foundation puts cash to work in soft commercial real estate market
ColumnsIn a typical week, I get about a dozen real estate deals in my inbox. Most of them are pretty forgettable, and some are only buzzworthy because, well … there’s nothing else to buzz about. Leases are few and sales are far between. So you can imagine my surprise when I heard from Ron Gallo, Read More →
Business tax violates Sol
ColumnsFirst, a disclosure. My late father, Sol Dubroff, spent much of his career as a tax systems architect, working for the U.S. Treasury and later for the IMF and other development agencies. He absolutely detested the value added tax, or VAT. He accepted the fact that taxes are the price we pay for liberty and Read More →
Rejecting Measure B is crucial to city
OpinionWe’ll go ahead and put the Business Times officially on the record as opposing so-called Measure B height limits for the city of Santa Barbara. We’ve generally been opposed to the more onerous of these measures, whether they cropped up in Ventura or San Luis Obispo. And there are really sound business reasons why unreasonable Read More →
Death penalty sought for Aguilar
UncategorizedVentura County District Attorney Greg Totten announced Sept. 22 that his office will seek the death penalty against an Oxnard man accused of shooting and killing a businessman who was leaving a U.S. Bank branch in Oxnard the morning Aug. 16. According to a news release, prosecutors will seek a death sentence for Jeffrey Aguilar, Read More →
