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Blockbuster business deals heat up region

By   /  Friday, June 3rd, 2011  /  Columns, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Blockbuster business deals heat up region

Last year, it was Gerald Ford of Texas who led the way as investors poured something like $700 million of new capital into the region’s banking system.

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The verdict on courthouse project: Construction boom across region

By   /  Monday, December 27th, 2010  /  Columns, Top Stories  /  Comments Off on The verdict on courthouse project: Construction boom across region

Santa Barbara’s proposed $152 million criminal courthouse project is expected to create 3,500 direct and indirect jobs in the area over a five-year period, representing a major economic boost to the region’s sagging construction industry. Local builders say the project will likely be handed to a larger, out-of-town general contractor who can handle the scope Read More →

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A sobering reality check

By   /  Monday, December 20th, 2010  /  Columns  /  Comments Off on A sobering reality check

Editor Henry Dubroff surveys business leaders across the Tri-Counties to check the pulse of the recovery

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A speed bump in Oxnard’s road to recovery

By   /  Monday, December 13th, 2010  /  Columns, Opinion  /  Comments Off on A speed bump in Oxnard’s road to recovery

Oxnard’s seemingly bright future has hit a few rough spots

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Editorial: Key ingredients missing in tax-cut deal

By   /  Monday, December 13th, 2010  /  Editorials, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Editorial: Key ingredients missing in tax-cut deal

The Dec. 6 deal that extends unemployment benefits and the Bush-era tax breaks erases a lot of uncertainty.

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UCSB economist warns of future tax hikes

By   /  Wednesday, December 8th, 2010  /  Latest news, Tri-County Economy  /  Comments Off on UCSB economist warns of future tax hikes

Higher taxes are an inevitable consequence of ad-hoc policymaking, according to UC Santa Barbara economics professor Peter Rupert. Rupert, who heads the UCSB Economic Forecast Project, told a breakfast audience of Santa Barbara-area business leaders on Dec. 8 that temporary subsidies such as “cash for clunkers” and payments to first-time homebuyers were largely useless. He Read More →

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Suddenly, deficit is talk of the town

By   /  Monday, December 6th, 2010  /  Columns, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Suddenly, deficit is talk of the town

WASHINGTON, D.C. — All of a sudden, deficit reduction is the name of the game. It is as though someone flipped a switch on Nov. 2 and suddenly the one-trick pony that is politics in the nation’s capital is obsessed with the idea of balancing the federal budget. Not that I am complaining. As I Read More →