Sientra promotions, bonuses and pay raise ill-timed
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Dubroff: Coastal Commission should tackle housing shortage
It is perhaps appropriate that an effort to unseat Charles Lester, executive director of the California Coastal Commission, might just come to a head in Morro Bay on Feb. 10. That’s the date when the commission is set to hold a public meeting over so-called “performance issues” that have led, apparently, to an effort by Read More →
Homebuilding service eyes Central Coast for expansion
A new homebuilding service franchise is expanding into Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, promising to add more transparency to the construction process. Alair Homes began in Canada in 2006, offering builders the ability to outsource administrative functions and scale up through franchising. Alair handles website work, software, marketing outreach, accounting and other services Read More →
Here’s how to navigate stock market meltdown
Markets are quirky things. They sail along for a while and then wham, turbulence arrives. Twice in the past six months we’ve seen two market meltdowns — the latest put the U.S. indices deep into correction territory. My own takeaway is that we are not in the middle of a full-blown financial crisis; there’s been Read More →
AB Design Studio puts the funk in Santa Barbara’s Funk Zone
Meetings aren’t confined to the conference room at AB Design Studio. Dry-erase notes are scribbled onto the windows of the design firm at 420 E. Haley St. in Santa Barbara, featuring impromptu brainstorming sessions where some of the area’s most notable developments take shape. AB Design Studio has been the creative epicenter of much of Read More →
Children’s museum in Oxnard closes but another to open in SB
As Gull Wings Children’s Museum closes its doors and searches for a new space in Oxnard, a new children’s museum is taking shape in Santa Barbara. Gull Wings closed on Jan. 10 after 28 years at its 4th Street location because of an aging building and a drop in attendance, museum officials said. The city Read More →
China’s command economy hits great wall of the free market
“They’ve gone about as fur as they c’n go.” Sixty years ago, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein used those words to describe the state of affairs in Kansas City in the musical “Oklahoma.” But I can’t think of a better way to describe what’s going on in China. The Middle Kingdom appears to have hit Read More →
