Street Smarts: Westmont will bring author Michael Lewis back to Santa Barbara
Columns, Higher Education, Latest news, NonprofitsBestselling author Michael Lewis will keynote the 17th annual Westmont College President’s Breakfast on March 4 at the Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort. Lewis is best known for “Moneyball,” “The Big Short” and “The Blind Side,” but his pandemic book, “The Premonition” made prescient calls about COVID-19 and it made a hero out of Charity Read More →
Portfolio Watch: Assessing Ukraine’s market risk; Is the recent slump the sign of a bear market?
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Sage Publications gives $36M to McCune Foundation
Latest news, Nonprofits, Top Stories, Women Inc.Sage Publishing, a Thousand Oaks-based academic publisher, announced Feb. 3 that it has donated $36 million to the foundation established by the company’s owner, Sara Miller McCune. The donation came in two pieces: $35 million at the end of 2021, to fully fund the foundation’s endowment, and another $1 million toward its operations for 2022. Read More →
Street Smarts: Another honor for Westlake Village BioPartners co-founder
Columns, Health Care & Life Science, Latest news, NonprofitsThe Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association has named Beth Seidenberg of Westlake Village BioPartners as its 2022 Woman of the Year. She will be feted live and virtually at the HBA’s annual conference in New York City on May 10. Seidenberg “has medicine in her blood,” a statement from the association says, noting that as a researcher Read More →
Energy Vault SPAC deal nearing completion
Banking & Finance, East Ventura County, Energy, Green Coast, Latest news, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy, Tri-County Public CompaniesWestlake Village-based Energy Vault will be listed on the New York Stock Exchange in the coming weeks, if its merger with a special purpose acquisition company gets final approval at the SPAC’s shareholder meeting on Feb. 10. Energy Vault, which uses a gravity-based system to store energy generated by renewable sources, announced plans in September Read More →
Trucker, employer settle cases over 2020 Santa Maria oil spill
Energy, Latest news, Law & GovermentSanta Barbara County prosecutors have settled criminal and civil cases against the trucker and trucking company responsible for a March 2020 oil spill outside of Santa Maria. Jesse Villasana was driving an oil tanker truck for Golden Valley Transfer on March 21, 2020, on his way from Bakersfield to Santa Maria, when the tanker detached Read More →
January slump has many of region’s stocks near 52-week lows
Banking & Finance, Latest news, Tri-County Public CompaniesThe stock market downturn that brought the Nasdaq close to correction territory has taken its toll on tri-county companies, with more than a dozen trading at or close to a 52-week low at the close of trading on Jan. 19. Among larger cap stocks of companies headquartered in the tri-county region, Olaplex, based in Montecito, Read More →
