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Editorial Department


| Monday, August 30th, 2010

SLO divided over which road to take on Broad Street project

Columns

Some members of the San Luis Obispo business community are hoping to drive Measure H — a ballot proposal to stop the planned extension of Prado Road to Broad Street — right into a dead-end. The City Council approved the road extension in a 3-2 vote, but Measure H now puts the decision in voters’ Read More →

| Monday, August 30th, 2010

Public-sector manager pay adds up: We reveal comp of region's top execs

Top Stories

Lompoc City Administrator Laurel Barcelona and Moorpark City Manager Steve Kueny run cities of about the same size, but their paychecks are in different weight classes. Barcelona took home $166,557 in pay and benefits last year, while Kueny’s compensation was 73 percent higher, at $288,583. Lompoc and Moorpark are both bedroom communities with roughly 40,000 Read More →

| Monday, August 30th, 2010

Editorial: Let the sun shine on city, county salaries

Opinion

The Bell scandal has put public payrolls in the spotlight. That’s why the Pacific Coast Business Times has connected the dots up and down the Tri-County region, with a comprehensive survey on city manager and county executive officer pay. Our survey was conducted over the past few weeks under the direction of Executive Editor Tony Read More →

| Monday, August 30th, 2010

A summer that changed everything

Columns

Grab the nearest calendar. Find a sharpie. Put a big thick line through August 2010. For those of us who are neurotic enough to follow the banking game, we are witnessing a once-in-a-decade event: A complete realignment of financial services in the tri-county region. The collapse of Los Padres Bank and its sale to Pacific Read More →

| Sunday, August 29th, 2010

Public-sector pay data

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Public-sector top executive pay – For the original story, "Public-sector manager pay adds up," with accompanying charts and data, click here.

| Monday, August 23rd, 2010

An end to the paper chase: Sansum to spend $7M to digitize health records

Health Care & Life Science

Every day at Sansum Clinic’s 17 health care facilities between Carpinteria and Santa Maria, an old ritual takes place. Couriers bring stacks of paper medical charts for the day’s patient visits. That’s all about to change, as the Santa Barbara-based nonprofit spends $7 million over the next two years to convert to electronic health records. Read More →

| Monday, August 23rd, 2010

Tenants hold all the cards in commercial real estate market

Columns

It’s a tenant’s market out there, which means more landlords are offering sweet deals and incentives such as lower rents, built-out spaces or shorter lease terms — anything to attract and retain quality lessees. “Based on the offers we’ve received the tenants definitely know that it’s a tenant market. There’s no such thing as an Read More →