Dubroff: Economist predicts quick recovery from COVID-19 crisis
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Ventura, SLO counties reopening faster than Santa Barbara County
San Luis Obispo and Ventura counties are moving along with reopening but they’re leaving Santa Barbara County behind. Both SLO and Ventura counties announced they’re proceeding into the next stage of reopening, which include allowing personal care services to resume. Those businesses were be able to reopen on June 19, as long as the service Read More →
Tri-county’s Black-owned businesses gaining support
The community is uniting to offer support to Black-owned businesses in the Tri-Counties as protests against police brutality and COVID-19 sweep the nation. The protests, which erupted after video showed 46-year-old George Floyd being choked to death by a Minneapolis police officer, follow months of stagnant activity due the coronavirus that tanked the U.S. economy. Read More →
Dubroff: Creating a more just society on the Central Coast
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Tri-Counties enter new stage of reopening
Many more businesses in the Tri-Counties were able to reopen June 12 following changes in the state’s COVID-19 guidance. Businesses like movie theaters, zoos, museums, gyms, fitness centers, hotels (for tourism and individual travel), campgrounds and outdoor recreation will be able to reopen on the Central Coast soon. San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura Read More →
Fienup: Fed putting blinders on investors’ eyes
By Matthew Fienup While the CDC is recommending face masks, the Federal Reserve is imposing blinders. Long before 40 million people filed unemployment claims as a result of government-mandated closures, indeed before any of us had even heard of COVID-19, U.S. monetary policy was already on crisis footing. The Federal Reserve failed to unwind extraordinary Read More →
Tri-county museums pivot to survive COVID-19 pandemic
Freshly painted red walls, black and white photographs and relics from the United Farm Workers movement occupy the Museum of Ventura County, but the public has not been able to see them. The exhibit, “Huelga! Photographs from the Frontline,” was installed and ready for visitors on March 14. More than 1,000 people had filled the Read More →
