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Brown should not sign farmworker overtime bill

By   /  Friday, September 2nd, 2016  /  Agribusiness, Editorials, Higher Education, Latest news, Opinion, Small Business, Top Stories  /  Comments Off on Brown should not sign farmworker overtime bill

Henry Dubroff

With the farmworker overtime pay bill headed to Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk, we’re writing to warn that many of the quick fixes to contemporary problems are not what they appear to be. In a year where Bernie Sanders ignited the Democratic Party with his appeal to the issue of social injustice, the impulse to seize Read More →

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Tri-county homeowners tapping equity to remodel their homes

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China next frontier: AppScale partnering with web-retailing giant Alibaba

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AppScale CEO Woody Rollins stands outside of the company's Santa Barbara offices. (Philip Joens)

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Growing fast: 29 private tri-county companies make Inc. 5000 list

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Carpinteria-based Procore Technologies moved up from No. 880 last year to No. 697 this year. (Nik Blaskovich)

  More than two dozen companies from around the Tri-Counties earned national recognition once again when they were named to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing private companies in America. In all, 29 companies from around the region were named to the list, which tracks revenue growth over a three-year span, slightly down from Read More →

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Computer interface should be intuitive

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Businesses large and small invest hefty amounts in software designed to improve operations and attract and keep in touch with customers. Sometimes, these projects are a success. Others are deemed failures, resulting in costly software abandonment. While there are a variety of factors that can differentiate between success and failure, one important consideration is the Read More →

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Greed drives skyrocketing cost of drugs in the U.S.

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Fiscal reform needed as pension time bomb ticks away

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America’s summer of fiscal discontent is coming to a close on a downbeat note. The California legislature is preparing to wind up its session having stirred up a lot of controversy but done almost nothing to address the state’s ongoing pension crisis. The burgeoning shortfall now adds up to $139 billion in the CalPERS fund Read More →