A summer that changed everything
ColumnsGrab 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 →
Editorial: Goodbye and good luck
OpinionFor the past six years, we’ve gotten to know and respect Ashish Vaidya, who rose through the ranks to become dean of the faculty at CSU Channel Islands. He’s a thoughtful economist with a knack for reading the thoughts that are in the minds of those in the audience at his public talks on global Read More →
Designed for success: Top minds at RKS Design share their secrets
UncategorizedOver the past 30 years, Thousand Oaks-based RKS Design has proved it knows how to design stuff. It’s won nearly every award in the industrial design world. It’s helped turn around troubled companies. A rethinking of the controls on Amana’s washing machines, for example, added about 30 cents in costs but helped swing the appliance Read More →
Melton
Small BusinessMark Melton has grown his cleaning business into a tidy little tri-county empire over the past decade, sweeping in $19.8 million in revenue last year. Carpinteria-based Melton Franchise Systems, a master franchisor for Coverall Health Based Cleaning Systems and owner of the Molly Maid business in the region, made the No. 19 spot on the Read More →
Public-sector pay data
UNKNOWNPublic-sector top executive pay – For the original story, "Public-sector manager pay adds up," with accompanying charts and data, click here.
Editorial: U.S. News knows our colleges are tops
OpinionOur region’s four-year colleges and universities fared well in the latest rankings from U.S. News & World Report — yet another indication that over the long haul, the tri-county region’s economy is likely to be stable and that our tradition of successful entrepreneurship remains intact. For the record, five of the region’s four-year institutions of Read More →
RightScale: Now we do Windows
UncategorizedWhen Apple overtook Microsoft in market capitalization earlier this year, it grabbed headlines. But when it comes to the enterprise technology world, Redmond, Wash., still rules the roost. Case in point: Santa Barbara-based RightScale more than doubled its potential market on Aug. 17 just by rolling out compatibility with Windows Server software. RightScale makes a Read More →
