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 →
Westlake company snags $8M in capital
UncategorizedZumbox has raised an $8 million round of capital for its quest to make mail paperless nationwide. The company, which has 28 employees at its Westlake Village headquarters, wants to draw consumers in with a digital mailbox offering that’s more secure and less spammed than e-mail and, most importantly, tethered to a street address. The Read More →
High-rise ballot stays
UncategorizedA Santa Barbara County judge has ruled that the term “high rise” can stay on the ballot language in a measure that seeks to limit buildings’ height to 40 feet, according to report published in Noozhawk. Santa Barbara architect Brian Hofner had challenged the ballot language in court as false because Santa Barbara’s building Read More →
Bringing business to the race
UncategorizedMeg Whitman believes small businesses, such as the millions that sell their products on eBay, are the key to California’s economic revival. The Republican gubernatorial candidate, billionaire and former eBay chief executive officer spoke to an intimate crowd of supporters at a breakfast gathering at the University Club in Santa Barbara on Sept. 1. “It Read More →
