Dubroff: Deckers chair wants to put Santa Barbara on sounder footing
Deckers Brands Chairman Angel Martinez is running for mayor of Santa Barbara on a platform you might call radical centrism. He wants to tackle the city’s homeless problems head on, bring more disciplined management to the struggling State Street retail corridor and yet retain the distinctive culture and architectural synergy that make Santa Barbara unique. Read More →
Dubroff: Leadership needed to solve downtown Santa Barbara’s woes
You might call this Santa Barbara’s summer of discontent. From a casual chat with friends in Ventura, to a breakfast talk at East Beach Grill, to dinner on the patio at Brent’s Deli in Westlake, to more formal conversations with retail and banking experts, the same issue keeps popping up. What’s going on with downtown Read More →
Dubroff: Tri-Counties exploring solutions to housing unaffordability
If you decided to hold your breath until California’s coastal counties found real solutions to the housing crisis, your odds of survival would be very long. But just when you think there’s no hope for an end to the state’s housing nightmare, there are some early signs of a new consensus to address the problem. Read More →
Dubroff: Museum of Ventura County deserves to be preserved
Just a year ago, the city of Ventura was celebrating its 150th anniversary with a lot of fanfare and one heck of a party. Now, with one of its iconic cultural institutions in need of help, city officials and Ventura County’s board of supervisors will have to weigh the long-term benefits of putting the Museum Read More →
Limoneira could triple lemon output at packinghouse
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Dubroff: Lacayo’s genius was his ability to balance competing interests
There were two reasons why the late Henry “Hank” Lacayo insisted that his United Auto Workers negotiators wear suits and ties when they sat down with management to hammer out a new contract. The first was to send a signal that the union team was socially equal to the management negotiators. The second was to Read More →
MannKind moving to former Kythera space in Westlake Village
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