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Editorial Board


| Friday, April 4th, 2014

Editorial: Unveiling the secrets of high-frequency trading

Editorials, Opinion

Michael Lewis doesn’t see himself as a business journalist.  “I like to write about markets,” he told a small group of his peers at a conference in Phoenix on March 28. With that simple, declarative sentence, Lewis dropped a subtle hint about his next exposé. Indeed, a few nights later on “60 Minutes,” Lewis made Read More →

| Friday, March 28th, 2014

Editorial: Santa Barbara politicos trade places as fiscal clock ticks

Editorials, Opinion

Santa Barbara County Supervisor Peter Adam and Santa Barbara Mayor Helene Schneider are an unlikely political pairing.

| Friday, March 21st, 2014

Editorial: High schools seek business support for $6M grant

Editorials, Opinion

A unique partnership among Santa Barbara County high schools is competing for a $6 million Pathways Trust grant that could reshape technical education in our region.

| Friday, March 21st, 2014

Editorial: CSUCI professors team with Yunus

Editorials, Opinion

Two CSU Channel Islands staffers and Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus have launched the first textbook on social business.

| Friday, March 14th, 2014

Editorial: Chamber chief ‘hatched’ Santa Maria recovery

Editorials, Opinion

Bob Hatch has the sort of practical wisdom that is very rare in today’s charged political environment. He has been increasingly frustrated at the no-growth politics of the county that seemed to stymie every effort to promote jobs and opportunity for the Santa Maria Valley.

| Friday, March 7th, 2014

Editorial: Ukrainian crisis illustrates power of the free market

Editorials, Opinion

The “markets matter” lesson should not be lost on some of the most left-leaning members of the Democratic party, who may find themselves on the wrong side of history when it comes to America’s resurgent energy markets.

| Friday, March 7th, 2014

Editorial: Housing affordability another issue in pension debate

Editorials, Opinion

Part of the drive for higher and higher public benefits stems from the fact that housing affordability in our coastal zones is a chronic problem.