By Henry Dubroff / Friday, October 2nd, 2015 / Columns / Comments Off on Philanthropic funding gap in Ventura County must be closed
Ventura County has a balanced budget but a big deficit when it comes to philanthropy. Staff writer Marissa Nall reports in today’s Business Times that giving in the county that represents more than half the population of the 805 area code averaged just $2,153 per person in 2014, according to a report by the Read More →
By Henry Dubroff / Friday, October 2nd, 2015 / Editorials / Comments Off on Wind power project great for San Luis Obispo County
Just a year ago, Dynergy, a Texas-based energy firm, shut down the aging power plant that’s loomed over the city of Morro Bay for decades, idling the three 450-foot-tall smokestacks that are part of the city’s skyline. Now Trident Winds, a British company, has proposed something new in the field of power production: a floating Read More →
The cable TV landscape in the Tri-Counties continues to shift as companies vie for market share in an industry rapidly losing subscribers. The cable scene has been in flux since Comcast and Time Warner Cable announced plans to merge in February of last year. When that deal fell apart, Time Warner quickly announced plans to Read More →
Ventura County is embarking on an important step forward as it weighs the latest update to its general plan. That step would be to include an economic development element to the general plan in the next approval cycle. A letter to county officials from the Economic Development Collaborative of Ventura County recommends the county include Read More →
Veteran community banker James W. Lokey has been appointed to the board of Community West Bancshares, bringing a veteran dealmaker into the Community West ranks and strengthening the Goleta-based bank’s push into San Luis Obispo County. Lokey, a resident of SLO County, was the longtime CEO of Mid-State Bank & Trust and negotiated that bank’s Read More →
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