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| Friday, October 7th, 2011

Guest op/ed: Cuts to reimbursement will be devastating to state’s health care

Op/Eds, Opinion

The action of the California Legislature would put the Medicare and MediCal programs on life support.

| Friday, October 7th, 2011

Guest op/ed: Heavy burden of regulation is weighing economy down

Op/Eds, Opinion

Destructive government fiscal and monetary policies are clearly hurting the economy, but overregulation is an unnecessarily self-inflicted wound that can quickly be cured.

| Friday, October 7th, 2011

Guest op-eds: Tech execs remember Steve Jobs

Latest news, Op/Eds, Opinion

Editor’s Note: The Business Times asked technology executives in the region to share their thoughts on the death of Steve Jobs, the Apple co-founder who died Oct. 5 at age 56. To contribute, email newsroom@pacbiztimes.com. We’ll post more remembrances as they become available. Click here to read a column by Technology Editor Stephen Nellis on Read More →

| Thursday, October 6th, 2011

Arts groups receive $3.7M

Latest news, Nonprofits

Thirteen Central Coast arts institutions are receiving a total of $3.7 million from The James Irvine Foundation, a nonprofit that hands out grants to help organizations achieve cultural and financial success. The grants, which were announced on Wednesday, are part of the Irvine Foundation’s five-year-old Arts Regional Initiative. Since 2006, the program has targeted music, Read More →

| Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

Transphorm gets $3.6M grant

Green Coast, Latest news, Technology

Transphorm, the Goleta-based energy efficiency firm backed by $63 million from Google and other investors, has received a $3.6 million federal grant to improve solar panels. Transphorm’s technology uses a semiconducting material called gallium nitride to drastically reduce heat waste in electronic systems. The grant from the U.S. Department of Energy went to Transphorm in Read More →

| Friday, September 30th, 2011

Guest op/ed: Cal Poly’s international business program closed, to detriment of students

Op/Eds, Opinion

A separate international business program sends the message to students and employers that we value a global perspective in our curriculum.

| Friday, September 30th, 2011

Guest op/ed: Understanding crime insurance for ‘rogue employee’ losses

Op/Eds, Opinion

Financial services companies have never been more vulnerable to catastrophic losses caused by dishonest employees and employees duped by dishonest third parties.