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Tony Biasotti

Tony Biasotti is the executive editor of the Pacific Coast Business Times.


| Friday, August 2nd, 2013

Forging ahead: Blacksmith melds art and industrial design

Features, Small Business

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| Friday, February 8th, 2013

Op/ed: Valuing the soft power of Ventura County

Op/Eds, Opinion

While Ventura County’s hard power has taken a hit, the new State Of The Region Report gives plenty of reasons to be optimistic about the future, based on those soft-power indicators.

| Friday, January 14th, 2011

Postal cutbacks signal crunch in public sector

Top Stories, Tri-County Economy

Between the rise of e-mail and the Great Recession, the U.S. Postal Service hasn’t had an easy decade. Mail volume is down 20 percent since 2006 and the agency has even discussed eliminating Saturday delivery.

| Friday, January 7th, 2011

Postal Service weighs cuts in Oxnard

Tri-County Economy

The U.S. Postal Service is considering closing its processing and distribution facility in Oxnard and moving the work to its Goleta facility, a move that would save about $1.8 million and cost the region 79 jobs. The Postal Service has scheduled a public meeting for Jan. 20 in Oxnard to review the proposal. At that Read More →

| Friday, December 17th, 2010

COLAB expanding to cover Tri-Counties

Tri-County Economy

After almost 20 years of advocating for property rights in Santa Barbara County, COLAB — the Coalition of Labor, Agriculture and Business — is going regional. And, at least in Ventura County, it may be getting a bit kinder and gentler. Ventura County COLAB incorporated in August and recently hired a full-time executive director. To Read More →

| Wednesday, December 8th, 2010

UCSB economist warns of future tax hikes

Latest news, Tri-County Economy

Higher taxes are an inevitable consequence of ad-hoc policymaking, according to UC Santa Barbara economics professor Peter Rupert. Rupert, who heads the UCSB Economic Forecast Project, told a breakfast audience of Santa Barbara-area business leaders on Dec. 8 that temporary subsidies such as “cash for clunkers” and payments to first-time homebuyers were largely useless. He Read More →

| Monday, October 18th, 2010

Elections could rattle region’s city halls

Top Stories

The battles for the 112th Congress and the governor’s office may be sucking up most of the oxygen this campaign season, but voters up and down the Tri-Counties will also pick new city councils on Nov. 2.   The region’s largest cities — Oxnard, Thousand Oaks and Simi Valley — all have contested council elections. Read More →