Dubroff: UCSB vice chancellor takes expertise to Berkeley lab
When Mike Witherell moved back to UC Santa Barbara in 2005 to become vice chancellor for research, he left behind a job running Illinois-based Fermilab, one of the world’s leading places for research into high energy physics. Now, after helping to forge much closer ties between the university, corporate funders and spinoff companies, he’s moving Read More →
Judge denies Plains’ request to delay oil spill lawsuit
A U.S. district judge denied Plains All American Pipeline’s request to put a six-month hold on the class-action lawsuit stemming from the Refugio oil spill. Judge Philip Gutierrez issued an order on Feb. 25 that denied Plains’ motion because Plains did not make a clear case on how a delay, or stay in legalese, would Read More →
Pacifica buys another Cambria hotel
Pacifica Hotels has added to its Central Coast portfolio of independent hotels with its acquisition of San Simeon Pines Seaside Resort in Cambria, the company announced on Feb. 25. Pacifica has been on a hotel buying spree throughout the Central Coast. It now has six properties in Cambria and a total of 34 along the Read More →
Live streaming of Phillips 66 crude-by-rail meeting crashes
More people have participated in the San Luis Obispo County Planning Commission discussion on Phillips 66 crude-by-rail expansion project than any tri-county topic in recent memory. So many that they crashed the county website Feb. 25. Viewers near and far were unable to tune in to the county’s live stream of the morning meeting, which Read More →
Ceres fires KPMG over financial report
Ceres Inc. fired its accounting firm Feb. 23 during a disagreement over a “going concern” statement in Ceres’ 2015 annual report. Ceres, a Thousand Oaks-based ag-biotech company, made the announcement in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The filing says Ceres hired Los Angeles-based Marcum as its new independent accountant and dismissed its Read More →
Amgen selling $708 million in bonds to Swiss
Thousand Oaks-based biotech giant Amgen said Feb. 23 it will sell about $700 million in bonds on the Swiss market. Amgen said it would sell 700 million Swiss Francs worth of bonds. That equals about $708 million. Amgen submitted the bonds to the Swiss market for pricing Feb. 23 and said it expected to sell Read More →
Oxnard expected to OK deal with Rams for spring practices
The Oxnard City Council is expected to approve a contract with the Los Angeles Rams at a meeting Feb. 23. The Rams would hold spring practices at the River Ridge Fields, near River Ridge Golf Course, from April 18 through June 17. The city expects to net about $75,000. According to the contract between the Read More →
