Pacific Coast Business Times Staff | Monday, September 21st, 2009
Opinion Truly it is a strange bunch of creatures who inhabit the area in and around the state capitol in Sacramento. One day they are passing bogus laws designed to punish those who believe in the free enterprise system. The next day they are squabbling over issues that have nothing to do with our state’s urgent Read More →
Pacific Coast Business Times Staff | Saturday, September 19th, 2009
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The 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 →
Pacific Coast Business Times Staff | Saturday, September 19th, 2009
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A 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 →
Pacific Coast Business Times Staff | Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
Top Stories WASHINGTON, D.C. — With the Obama administration nudging climate change toward the top of the political agenda, the new energy economy was a timely topic as 25 business and community leaders from the Tri-Counties convened for a day of discussions hosted by U.S. Rep. Lois Capps, D-Santa Barbara. Capps said she was encouraged by efforts Read More →
Pacific Coast Business Times Staff | Monday, September 14th, 2009
Top Stories In the biggest single round of venture capital financing announced this year in the Tri-Counties, Carpinteria-based medical device maker ValenTx raised $22 million Sept. 8. Founded in 2002 and operating quietly until now, the company is testing out a treatment for morbid obesity, a condition in which patients are typically overweight by more than 100 Read More →
Pacific Coast Business Times Staff | Monday, September 14th, 2009
Top Stories When Banco BuenaVentura was rolled out in Oxnard less than a year ago, it catered almost exclusively to the area’s Hispanic community. But in light of its upcoming Sept. 21 closure, some are left wondering if the niche bank’s business plan is to blame for its collapse. The bank had a very clear goal when Read More →
Pacific Coast Business Times Staff | Monday, September 14th, 2009
Top Stories A year after the worst market quake since the Great Depression, aftershocks from the credit crunch are rumbling through Montecito’s upper crust. Patricia Klink filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Aug. 17 with $29.3 million in assets and $22.2 million in liabilities. She is the wife of John Klink, a longtime high-level Vatican adviser whose anti-abortion Read More →
