Airport in holding pattern
The frozen bond market claimed another potential victim in mid-October when the city of Santa Barbara said it might shelve plans for a bond issue to pay for major improvements to the biggest airport in the Tri-Counties. It makes sense not to overpay for financing costs for big capital projects like the $60 million Read More →
Political epicenters about to shift north
Although our politicians are fixated on the November election and the changes that are going to be coming from Washington no matter who wins, we’d like to look just a little further out on the horizon. There’s a national census that will take place in 2010 and for Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo Read More →
Measure V would snarl business growth
We’ll take the rest of this editorial to remind readers about the improvements taking place on the Oxnard portion of Highway 101. On Oct. 7, Assemblyman Pedro Nava, Mayor Tom Holden and others were set to announce the official switch of the state-controlled portion of Highway 1 to Rice Avenue. This represents a big step Read More →
Measure A can shift region into fast lane
Traffic continues to be a big problem for communities along the Highway 101 corridor. No-growth advocates in places like Oxnard want to constrict it through draconian limits on the number of cars “allowed” through certain intersections. We’ll have more to say about the evils of Measure V below. No-tax advocates want to stop projects like Read More →
Newman a journalistic legend
We’ll take a few words to add our voice to many others who are recognizing the achievements of the late Paul Newman, an Academy Award winner with a gift for recognizing social issues. In 1981, Newman starred in the Sydney Pollack film “Absence of Malice,” which made an important contribution to our understanding of Read More →
Ag Alliance marks new era for farming
No matter what is happening on Wall Street — or on Main Street for that matter — people still need to eat. And yet in recent years it sometimes has been hard to tell if agriculture is actually an authorized activity in the Tri-Counties. Water pollution from Los Angeles County has threatened Ventura County’s Read More →
Edison pays the price for mistakes
The California Public Utilities Commission has slammed Southern California Edison Co. with a $30 million fine and orders to refund more than $81 million to customers. The record fine was levied at the conclusion of a probe into Edison’s shady practices in winning maximum rewards for customer satisfaction from 1997 through 2003. Those rewards were Read More →
