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By Editorial Board / Saturday, April 19th, 2014 / Editorials, Opinion / Comments Off on Editorial: New Oxnard city manager has big to-do list to tackle
Greg Nyhoff will fill a void that’s existed since Ed Sotelo was put on paid leave early in 2012. That means Oxnard spent two years and four months with no one at the helm.
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By Editorial Board / Friday, April 4th, 2014 / Editorials, Opinion / Comments Off on Editorial: Unveiling the secrets of high-frequency trading
Michael Lewis doesn’t see himself as a business journalist. “I like to write about markets,” he told a small group of his peers at a conference in Phoenix on March 28. With that simple, declarative sentence, Lewis dropped a subtle hint about his next exposé. Indeed, a few nights later on “60 Minutes,” Lewis made Read More →
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By Editorial Board / Friday, March 28th, 2014 / Editorials, Opinion / Comments Off on Editorial: Santa Barbara politicos trade places as fiscal clock ticks
Santa Barbara County Supervisor Peter Adam and Santa Barbara Mayor Helene Schneider are an unlikely political pairing.
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By Editorial Board / Friday, March 21st, 2014 / Editorials, Opinion / Comments Off on Editorial: High schools seek business support for $6M grant
A unique partnership among Santa Barbara County high schools is competing for a $6 million Pathways Trust grant that could reshape technical education in our region.
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By Editorial Board / Friday, March 21st, 2014 / Editorials, Opinion / Comments Off on Editorial: CSUCI professors team with Yunus
Two CSU Channel Islands staffers and Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus have launched the first textbook on social business.
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By Editorial Board / Friday, March 14th, 2014 / Editorials, Opinion / Comments Off on Editorial: Chamber chief ‘hatched’ Santa Maria recovery
Bob Hatch has the sort of practical wisdom that is very rare in today’s charged political environment. He has been increasingly frustrated at the no-growth politics of the county that seemed to stymie every effort to promote jobs and opportunity for the Santa Maria Valley.
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By Editorial Board / Friday, March 7th, 2014 / Editorials, Opinion / Comments Off on Editorial: Ukrainian crisis illustrates power of the free market
The “markets matter” lesson should not be lost on some of the most left-leaning members of the Democratic party, who may find themselves on the wrong side of history when it comes to America’s resurgent energy markets.
