More bad times ahead for South Coast Paper
Even though daily newspapers across thenation are suffering from the loss of subscribers and plummeting advertisingrevenues, the Santa Barbara News-Press should not blame all of its troubles onthose factors. Sure, the paper faces labor and legaltroubles, but these were brought on by mishandling of employee relations and aneventual purge of almost all editors. News-Press Co-publisher Read More →
Vacancies grow in Santa Maria commercial real estate sector
San Luis Obispo-based Stafford-McCarty Commercial Real Estate recently released a sobering account of the impact that the struggling economy has had on Santa Maria. As the first to feel the blow of subprime loans, the residential market has been carrying the weight behind the general real estate downturn, but in Santa Maria, vacancy rates have Read More →
Special Events
The Business Times’ next special event is the Fastest Growing Companies Awards Reception on Monday September 14th. Where: Fess Parker’s DoubleTree Resort When: 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $50. To register,click here
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Gorell enters 37th District race two years early
Oxnard attorney Jeff Gorell learned his lesson in 2004. That year, the Camarillo attorney ran for a 37th Assembly District, losing the GOP primary in an area so reliably Republican the race for the nomination constitutes the contest. Gorell jumped in the fray in January 2003, only to find that opponent Audra Strickland whizzing along Read More →
Hart Commercial Real Estate added to the SLO menu
Despite a cooling economic climate, Jason Hart may have launched his new commercial real estate company just in time to take advantage of a recent influx of national restaurant tenants to the five cities area. “It’s a different demographic than San Luis Obispo, where there are more independents and boutiques,” he said, though Hart’s Read More →







