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50 years after British Invasion, Peter Noone muses on music’s future

By   /  Friday, February 21st, 2014  /  Columns, Opinion  /  Comments Off on 50 years after British Invasion, Peter Noone muses on music’s future

Henry Dubroff

For five decades, entertainer and longtime South Coast resident Peter Noone has kept alive the legacy of the band now known as Herman and the Hermits, providing the world with some of the most enduring music of the British Invasion. During the past few weeks, Noone offered to spend a bit of airplane time answering a few questions from the Business Times about his life and the music business.

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Precedent-setting attorneys launch surrogacy agency in Santa Barbara

By   /  Friday, February 14th, 2014  /  Columns, Law & Goverment  /  Comments Off on Precedent-setting attorneys launch surrogacy agency in Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara attorneys Robert Walmsley and Marlea Jarrette have opened an agency called Surrogacy International to build on their decades of experience practicing — and sometimes helping establish — the law that applies when a woman agrees to carry a child for another couple.

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Shooting for the moon, pioneer Bill Yerkes became a solar star

By   /  Friday, February 14th, 2014  /  Columns, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Shooting for the moon, pioneer Bill Yerkes became a solar star

Henry Dubroff

Building solar panels for the Apollo moon missions in the 1960s, John W. “Bill” Yerkes was struck by an idea that would change the way the world thinks about electricity.

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Developer leaves Silicon Valley to start new South Coast firm

By   /  Friday, February 14th, 2014  /  Columns, Real Estate  /  Comments Off on Developer leaves Silicon Valley to start new South Coast firm

A former finance manager at Facebook has returned to his hometown of Santa Barbara to run a real estate development and investment firm.

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Ventura backs out of its brief adventure in venture capital funding

By   /  Friday, February 7th, 2014  /  Columns, Technology  /  Comments Off on Ventura backs out of its brief adventure in venture capital funding

The city of Ventura is near the end of its relationship with DFJ Frontier, a venture capital fund associated with Draper Fisher Jurvetson with an outpost in Santa Barbara.

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The case for a defined contribution pension system in California

By   /  Friday, February 7th, 2014  /  Columns, Opinion  /  Comments Off on The case for a defined contribution pension system in California

Henry Dubroff

Grass-roots efforts underway in Ventura County and a few other places may lead California to start junking its expensive and debt-ridden pension system in favor of a 401(k)-like substitute.

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Political scuffle spotlights Goleta revenue-sharing deal with county

By   /  Friday, January 24th, 2014  /  Columns, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Political scuffle spotlights Goleta revenue-sharing deal with county

Henry Dubroff

Renegotiating the RNA has emerged as a potentially explosive issue in the 2014 election where Goleta City Councilman Roger Aceves is challenging incumbent Janet Wolf for the 2nd District seat, which represents part of Goleta.