Dubroff: Survival alone is a triumph for Central Coast small businesses
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Counties strive to protect their most vulnerable residents
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Hair: Public market in Paso to open despite pandemic restrictions
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Teledyne stock climbs as Q2 earnings beat analyst estimates
Second-quarter sales for Thousand Oaks-based Teledyne Technologies dipped 5 percent to $743.3 million, and net income beat analyst estimates, sending the stock up 2.5 percent in early trading. Net income fell around 10 percent compared to the previous year’s second quarter to $93.7 million, or $2.48 per share, squarely beating analyst predictions of around $2 Read More →
Crimson, contractor will pay $1.6M to settle claims over 2016 Ventura oil spill
The companies responsible for a 2016 oil spill in the Ventura foothills will pay the state and county $1.6 million in a legal settlement announced July 21. Crimson Pipeline agreed to pay $1.3 million in civil penalties and costs, according to a news release from Ventura County District Attorney Greg Totten’s office. Crimson’s contractor, CD Read More →
June unemployment drops in region, still historically high
Unemployment rates in Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties all dropped in June, but all three remained in double digits, and worse than the nadir of the Great Recession a decade ago, according to data released July 17 by the California Employment Development Department. Ventura County’s unemployment rate was 12.6 percent in June, Read More →
Dubroff: Looking for answers in a 300-year-old account of a Plague Year
Nearly 300 years ago, in 1722, a businessman turned journalist named Daniel Defoe recounted the deadly outbreak of bubonic plague that brought London to its knees in 1665. His book, “A Journal of The Plague Year,” became a bestseller, and over the summer, I re-read the paperback copy I picked up during my junior year Read More →
