Opinion: Oxnard should shy away from risky pension obligation bonds
By David Grau Inheriting a predecessor’s underfunded public pension debts is never fun, but the need to address them is unavoidable. The question before the Oxnard City Council was how — and there is both a right way and the lazy way. The right way is to adopt policies that keep the pension debt from Read More →
Dubroff: Fall semester marks a major milestone for CSUCI and Ventura County
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Portfolio Watch: Don’t turn away from value stocks just yet, says UBS
• UBS writes that despite the recent rally in the S&P 500, it may not be time to shift away from a value orientation in picking equities. In a weekly update it tells investors that while “growth stocks have rallied sharply” from mid-June lows, “lingering uncertainty around inflation” and Fed moves “point toward further outperformance Read More →
Street Smarts: Naval Base Ventura County tests the latest in assessment and damage control
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Goleta startup Next Energy passes test for its solar windows
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State funds more than 100 units in Ventura County with anti-homelessness grants
New funding from Sacramento will help convert a motel in Thousand Oaks to housing for homeless people and buildings at Casa Pacifica Centers for Children and Families to housing for at-risk former foster youth, adding more than 100 units of supportive housing in Ventura County. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced $694 million in new grants on Read More →
Distilleries shake up region’s beverage industry
Though water makes up about 60% of the average person’s body, liquor certainly runs in the Cutler family line. As a boy, Ian Cutler heard the stories of how his great-grandfather was a bootlegger during Prohibition. From there, his family kept running different liquor stores, bars and more, until 1985, when changes to California’s liquor Read More →
