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			By Marlize van Romburgh  /  Friday, October 7th, 2011  /  Columns, Real Estate  /  Comments Off on South Coast sales activity slows to crawl after early 2011 boom
			
			
			
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			By Henry Dubroff  /  Friday, October 7th, 2011  /  Columns, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Area banker tells Fed chair how grim it is
			
			
			
			Santa Barbara resident and California Bankers Association President Rod Brown recently met with Ben Bernanke.
			
	        
		 
		
		
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			By Marlize van Romburgh  /  Friday, October 7th, 2011  /  Columns, Restaurants  /  Comments Off on Santa Barbara restaurateurs profiled in book talk about avoiding kitchen nightmares
			
			
			
			Two of the partners behind Santa Barbara’s Arch Rock Fish restaurant share their recipes for success in a new book about culinary entrepreneurs.
			
	        
		 
		
		
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			By Stephen Nellis  /  Friday, October 7th, 2011  /  Columns, Technology  /  Comments Off on Ventura group tackles energy efficiency
			
			
			
			The Venutra County chapter of an international engineering group is organizing an energy efficiency conference that it hopes will grow to include all of the greater Los Angeles area.
			
	        
		 
		
		
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			By Stephen Nellis  /  Wednesday, October 5th, 2011  /  Columns, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Why American business will miss Steve Jobs
			
			
			
			Steve Jobs changed the world by giving the people what they want — vision.
			
	        
		 
		
		
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			By Henry Dubroff  /  Friday, September 30th, 2011  /  Columns, Opinion  /  1 Comment
			
			
			
			Now that President Obama has announced his “American Jobs Act” to decidedly mixed reviews in the political arena, I’d like to suggest a follow-on proposal.
			
	        
		 
		
		
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			By Marlize van Romburgh  /  Friday, September 30th, 2011  /  Columns, Real Estate  /  Comments Off on Deardorff Family Farms builds $10M green building in Oxnard
			
			
			
			Deardorff Family Farms in Oxnard is spending more than $10 million on a new 115,000-square-foot facility designed to become green-building certified.