Editorial: Retroactive tax payments would punish job creators
The Franchise Tax Board’s decision to retroactively tax small-business owners who sold their companies smacks of a bureaucratic over-reach.
Editorial: Immigration reform could open paths to entrepreneurship
California’s access to the Pacific Rim, its universities, its base of tech companies and its access to venture capital are huge pluses when it comes to recruiting and retaining foreign-born entrepreneurs.
Editorial: Bank reform needed to increase small-business access to financing
They don’t need to be shut out of the financial system by rules that make it too difficult for banks to take relatively small risks on customers who have sound plans but no credit history or extremely limited access to personal capital.
Editorial: Brown leaves key elements off table in university debate
For a few days during the past week, higher education reform has moved to the top of the agenda for Gov. Jerry Brown.
Editorial: Caltrans should consider Plan B for Montecito 101
With Highway 101 widening plans for the South Coast moving forward at a steady pace, a group of area residents has begun pressing an alternative for a stretch through Montecito. Called Common Sense 101, the group makes persuasive arguments for area officials to ask Caltrans to carefully review its plan to undertake a radical remaking Read More →
Editorial: Better public-pay data is a deterrent for abuse
Getting more transparency on pay is a small but important step to toward accountability
