Small tri-county hotels fight chains with Stash Rewards
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California blocks workers’ path to small business ownership
The lack of serious attention to the dismal state of small business formation in California and across the nation has been one of the most disappointing aspects of the 2016 campaign. Small business gets a lot of lip service but scant real attention. Meanwhile, the number of small business failures continues to outpace new starts. Read More →
Patagonia weighs in on climate change policies
In a widely circulated New Yorker magazine profile, Patagonia co-founder Yvon Chouinard fumed this summer about Hillary Clinton’s acceptance speech at the Democratic Party convention — complaining that including just one sentence about climate change fell far short of the mark. Apparently, we haven’t heard Patagonia’s last words on the matter of politics and climate Read More →
Brown vetoes bill to cap abandoned oil wells along coast
Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill that would’ve capped abandoned oil wells along the California Coast. SB 900, authored by Santa Barbara Democrat Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson, would’ve required the analysis of some 220 abandoned wells along the coast and capped the biggest leakers. This bill would’ve transferred $500,000 from the General Fund to the Land Read More →
Thousand Oaks apartment complex sells for $67 million
A 191-unit multifamily community at 491 W. Gainsborough Road in Thousand Oaks sold for $67 million. Pacific Urban Residential bought the property from IMT Capital LLC, according to Greg Harris of Marcus & Millichap who coordinated the deal. “The acquisition provided the buyer with the opportunity to enter a highly coveted market supported by the Read More →
Phillips 66’s crude-by-rail proposal denied
The San Luis Obispo County Planning Commission denied Phillips 66’s proposal to expand its crude-by-rail operations on the Nipomo Mesa. The commissioners voted 3-2 against the project, which involves building a rail spur that would connect its refinery to Union Pacific’s major interstate railroad so it can import tar sands crude from Canada and other Read More →
Ventura company wins prize from Regenerative Business Alliance
Rincon-Vitova Insectaries, headquartered in Ventura, won the top prize for “fooding” from the Seattle-based Regenerative Business Alliance. Recipients showed “a deep and extended scope of aspiration to pursue and achieve shifts in one or more industries, show transformation in a social system, work to unravel and evolve cultural paradigms, and leverage governing agreements to give Read More →
