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By Editorial Board / Friday, April 29th, 2011 / Editorials, Opinion / Comments Off on Editorial: Coming stealth crisis — rising unemployment costs for you
If you think, as most of us do, that all that’s needed to fix California’s problems is a deal between Gov. Jerry Brown and the Republican minority in the Legislature, think again. Beyond the budget, a perennial circus show that crowds the middle ring of state politics, there are myriad problems that plague the Golden Read More →
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By Editorial Board / Friday, April 22nd, 2011 / Editorials, Opinion / Comments Off on Editorial: Oxnard and EDCO — mend it, don’t end it
Oxnard should not walk away from economic developmentas a civic goal.
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By Editorial Board / Friday, April 15th, 2011 / Editorials, Opinion / Comments Off on Editorial: Funding higher education
UC Chancellor Mark Yudof, CSU System PresidentCharlie Reed and Community College chief Jack Scottare speaking with one voice on this year’s budget. An all-cuts budget would take a huge bite from highereducation in addition to the $500 million in cuts each systemhas been asked to absorb for 2011-12. We think that there are ways to Read More →
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By Editorial Board / Friday, April 15th, 2011 / Editorials, Opinion / Comments Off on Editorial: A more transparent future for area politics
The current way the region’s political districts are carved out is grossly unfair.
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By Editorial Board / Monday, December 27th, 2010 / Editorials, Opinion, Top Stories / Comments Off on Editorial: COLAB branches out
The arrival of COLAB, the Coalition of Labor, Agriculture and Business, in Ventura County gives property-rights advocates another tool to protect what has become an endangered liberty in the Tri-Counties.
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By Editorial Board / Monday, December 27th, 2010 / Editorials, Opinion, Top Stories / Comments Off on Editorial: Fix the 1099 rule, the sooner the better
While restaurants and small businesses up and down the Central Coast are fuming about the need to send 1099 forms to their best customers, a fix for this foolish piece of the health care reform law languishes in the Congress.
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By Editorial Board / Monday, December 20th, 2010 / Editorials, Opinion, Top Stories / Comments Off on Editorial: $152M courthouse is a stimulating development
The state judicial branch should focus on helping the local economy along as it builds its $152 million courthouse in Santa Barbara
