Joie de Vivre founder suggests new slogan for Santa Barbara
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Foxen Winery’s bottom-line strategy: Let the sun shine
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Building on Buffet’s $2B Topaz Solar Farm heats up
First Solar and Warren Buffett’s MidAmerican Solar have started major construction on a 550-megawatt photovoltaic solar project on northern San Luis Obispo County’s Carrizo Plain. The $2 billion Topaz Solar Farms hopes to be the largest solar-electric plant in the world. The developers said the project will create about 400 construction jobs over the next Read More →
Stagterity: An economic ailment the region may not shake easily
By the time Gov. Jerry Brown’s desperate actions to close a $15.7 billion budget gap trickle down to the Central Coast, the region will be stuck at zero growth rates for as far as the eye can see. What we face is a situation where stagnation is fueled by austerity, resulting in a condition I’ve Read More →
Deckers’ $686M win sets standard for fighting counterfeiters
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$152M courthouse could be scrapped for renovation option
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What would Louis Lancaster think about our world economy?
Who was Louis Lancaster? What would he think about the world economy today? Those are deeply interrelated questions that UC Santa Barbara economics professor Benjamin J. Cohen will be answering when he gives the 65th anniversary talk to the Channel City Club on May 18. Cohen, who goes by Jerry, holds the Lancaster Chair in Read More →
