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| Friday, March 19th, 2021

Street Smarts: Montecito Bank opens checkbook; Cal Poly gets points for value

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| Tuesday, March 16th, 2021

Velocity Financial recovers from pandemic with strong fourth quarter

Banking & Finance, Earnings, East Ventura County, Latest news, Real Estate, Tri-County Economy, Tri-County Public Companies

Velocity Financial saw its net income increase slightly from 2019 to 2020, even though the company’s loan production operations were suspended for more than half the year. The Westlake Village-based real estate finance company saw its net income go up 3%, from $17.3 million in 2019 to $17.8 million in 2020, according to earnings released Read More →

| Tuesday, March 16th, 2021

Oxnard company to pursue therapeutic psychedelics

Banking & Finance, Health Care & Life Science, Latest news, Tri-County Economy, Tri-County Public Companies, West Ventura County

Oxnard-based Cure Pharmaceutical announced plans on March 16 to use its oral film technology to deliver LSD and other psychedelic substances to treat mental health disorders. Cure owns the CBD company Sera Labs, and Cure has used its dissolving thin film platform, Curefilm, to deliver CBD and other cannabis compounds. Cure has a license from Read More →

| Monday, March 15th, 2021

Resonant reports smaller losses in 2020

Banking & Finance, Earnings, Latest news, Technology, Tri-County Economy, Tri-County Public Companies, West Ventura County

Resonant, a Texas-based provider of radio frequency filter designs with major operations in Goleta, ended 2020 with rising revenues and shrinking losses. In the fourth quarter of 2020, Resonant revenue increased 32% from a year earlier, to $607,000, the company said in a March 15 earnings release. It had a net loss of $7.1 million, Read More →

| Monday, March 15th, 2021

Santa Barbara to probe alleged conflicts in cannabis permits

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A Santa Barbara city employee who oversaw applications for cannabis dispensary licenses has been placed on leave while he is the focus of an outside investigation, the city said March 15. Anthony Wagner, a public information officer with the Santa Barbara Police Department, was the focus of a March 12 article in Los Angeles magazine Read More →

| Friday, March 12th, 2021

Street Smarts: Vandenberg’s name change puts space front and center

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| Friday, March 12th, 2021

Region’s clinics to join federal vaccine program

Health Care & Life Science, Latest news

Three health clinics based in Santa Barbara County, one in a San Luis Obispo County and one in Ventura County have been invited to join a federal program mean to get more vaccines in the arms of people who need them most. The Health Center COVID-19 Vaccine Program was launched by the U.S. Health Resources Read More →