In with the old
UncategorizedNetwork Hardware Resale is in the right business at the right time. For more than a decade, the company’s business plan has been to court its Internet service provider, educational and governmental clients by taking old equipment and bringing it up to date, appealing to groups wanting to keep costs low instead of buying new Read More →
GreatWay presents
UncategorizedThe Best of Success roofing industry conference selected Rod Menzel for a presentation at its fifth annual conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Menzel is the founder of GreatWay Roofing, a commercial and residential roofing company. He was also selected as this year’s winner in the Green Business category for the Business Times’ Spirit of Small Business Read More →
Dole banana saga continues
UncategorizedA federal judge in Miami said he may decide that Westlake Village-based Dole Food Inc. can’t be forced to pay a Nicaraguan court’s $97 million verdict awarded to banana plantation workers, Bloomberg News reported. In a Sept. 4 hearing, U.S. District Judge Paul C. Huck said that he didn’t see how he could sustain Read More →
South Coast needs a path for recovery
ColumnsUp until the crash in the global financial markets last September, it looked like the South Coast region of the Tri-Counties would escape the recession largely unscathed. That turns out not to have been the case. And now the stretch of coast from Carpinteria to Goleta is in danger of losing its status as Read More →
Civic Alliance helps stitch Ventura Co. up
OpinionNot so very long ago, Ventura County was defined by its differences. Oxnard and Ventura came to legal blows over the future of some large retail shops that abandoned the Esplanade Mall for new digs across the Santa Clara River. Agricultural and environmental interests teamed up to pass SOAR, dealing a blow to urban interests Read More →
The lesson learned from BuenaVentura
OpinionOne of the things we are learning about the current financial crisis is that banks operate best when they really operate as banks. When it was launched a year ago, Banco Buenaventura looked like a great idea for serving the Hispanic community. And we gave the brains behind the institution the benefit of the doubt Read More →
