Santa Barbara Public Works strikes gold
UncategorizedThe Santa Barbara County Public Works Department won a gold excellence award from the Solid Waste Association of North America for the second year in a row. Last year, the county took top honors for its overall Integrated Waste Management system; this year’s award was for marketing, as embodied by its 2008 Green Waste Awareness Read More →
$1.5M for Westmont chair
UncategorizedWestmont College received $1.5 million from The T.B. Walker Foundation, an anonymous donor and other supporters to create the college’s first endowed chair in the natural and behavioral sciences. The T.B. Walker Chair in the Natural and Behavioral Sciences will honor the work of an outstanding professor in biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering-physics, mathematics or Read More →
CKE unwraps Shanghai location
UncategorizedCarpinteria-based CKE Restaurants announced the opening of its first Carl’s Jr. restaurant in Shanghai, China, marking the first of more than 100 Carl’s Jr. units planned in the municipalities of Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin, and the provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangsu over the next eight years. CKE said its entry into China is part of Read More →
The next frontier
UncategorizedCalifornia, the largest space enterprise state in the nation, has brought countless of innovations to the industry, from developing and designing the International Space Station and Apollo programs, to creating the the nation’s first launch vehicles and the world’s first communication satellite. And now, a $220 million space center to be built next to Vandenberg Read More →
September conferences forecast Ventura Co. real estate market
ColumnsYou won’t have to wait long to get the scoop on Ventura County’s housing market. September’s conferences will fill in all the gaps. • First up is the 2009 Ventura County Economic Outlook Conference, slated for Sept. 10 at the Westlake Hyatt. Economist Mark Schniepp will have a forecast for not only the housing market Read More →
Eco-devo investments will pay off with jobs
OpinionCalifornia has a budget crisis. A jobs crisis. And just as important, an economic development crisis. Precisely when the state needs to be fostering new business starts and helping small firms become the next eBays and Intels, there’s no one minding the store. As Assistant Managing Editor Marlize van Romburgh reported in a recent edition Read More →
Government fiasco unmasked
OpinionWe’ll give a shoutout to University of California, Santa Barbara, professor Jacqueline Stevens and reporter Kristin Collins of the Raleigh News & Observer in North Carolina. Stevens’ research and Collins’ reporting turned up the shocking tale of Mark Lyttle, a North Carolina native who was wrongly deported to Mexico and wound up in Guatemala, where Read More →
