Opinion: Don’t throw away Ventura County taxpayer dollars at Toland Road Landfill
By David GrauVentura County Taxpayers Association The Ventura Regional Sanitation District is an enterprise public agency that provides landfill services for solid waste, water and wastewater services within Ventura County. Operating revenue is generated by various contracts with public agencies. VRSD is governed by a board of directors that include city council members from Camarillo, Read More →
Opinion: Starting SLO on the road to recovery
By Dawn Ortiz-Legg In late November of 2020, I was honored to be appointed as the 3rd District Supervisor for the county of San Luis Obispo by Gov. Gavin Newsom. As I have called this district home for more than two decades, my constituents’ concerns are my number one priority. From the onset of taking Read More →
Region’s unemployment down to 6.8% in February
The tri-county region’s unemployment rate dropped more than a half a percentage point between January and February as the region began to emerge from the deadly winter surge of COVID-19 cases. The region’s combined unemployment rate was 6.8% in February, according to Business Times analysis of data released March 26 by the California Employment Development Read More →
QAD shares climb 7% after earnings report
QAD, a cloud software company for the manufacturing industry, saw accelerated growth from its subscription services in the final quarter of the fiscal year, providing a bit of a bounce back for the Santa Barbara company. QAD generated revenue worth $83 million in the final quarter of the fiscal year, which ended Jan. 31. That Read More →
Camarillo donates library property for children’s museum
The former Camarillo Library at 3100 Ponderosa Drive is going to become the new site of kidSTREAM, an interactive children’s museum. The Camarillo City Council approved donating the property on March 24. The city had been expecting to sell the site to the kidSTREAM nonprofit for about $900,000. KidSTREAM has been raising money to buy Read More →
Cottage opens new clinic, names new execs
Cottage Health opened a new Cottage Urgent Care Center in San Luis Obispo on March 23, its ninth such clinic in a network that stretches from Camarillo to San Luis Obispo. Cottage Health, a nonprofit network of hospitals in Santa Barbara County and clinics throughout the tri-county region, has also recently promoted two people to Read More →
Employers can require jabs as a condition for jobs, but few have done so
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