Opinion: Today’s housing market devastates working families
By Pedro A. Chavez It seems the perfect storm has hit the housing market and its impact is devasting working families seeking access to the American dream of homeownership. How did we get here you ask? During the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw the Federal Reserve react by lowering interest rates to historic lows to prevent Read More →
CRE: Housing Trust Fund Ventura County receives $1.5M from MB&T
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Dubroff: Reopening State Street has positives, but more headaches remain for city officials
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Portfolio watch
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Opinion: It’s Women’s Equality Day for some of us
By Lois Phillips On Women’s Equality Day, it would behoove women and men to understand and fully appreciate how long it took for women to advance into leadership roles across sectors. Even now, however, there remains work to be done. For a quick reminder, in 1848 the Women’s Rights Convention occurred in Seneca Falls to Read More →
Vital signs: Central Coast adds tourism jobs in July as summer season peaks
The unemployment rate along the Central Coast took a slight dip from June to July, as the unemployment rate of 3.8% fell to 3.7%, according to the data released on Aug. 18 from the California Employment Development Department. However, across the tri-counties 3,100 total nonfarming jobs were lost and, when factoring in farming jobs, 6,000 Read More →
Cottage Health receives largest donation to create new center
The Santa Barbara Cottage Health Foundation received a $50 million donation, the single largest gift in Cottage’s 135-year history, from philanthropists Mary and Richard Compton, the hospital recently announced on Aug. 22. In total, the Comptons have donated $65 million to support medical excellence and innovation at Cottage Health. The couple, who live in Santa Read More →
