By Henry Dubroff / Friday, August 21st, 2015 / Editorials / Comments Off on LA hosting 2024 Olympics would be great for Central Coast
Efforts to designate Los Angeles as the U.S. host city for the 2024 Olympic are worth more than passing attention by leaders along the Highway 101 corridor. That’s because a successful bid by Los Angeles for the summer games would produce multiple benefits for the Central Coast, with a broad impact on business. The 1984 Read More →
Easton Baseball/Softball is moving its headquarters from Van Nuys to Thousand Oaks, the company announced on Aug. 20. Easton Baseball/Softball makes baseball and softball equipment and apparel. In a news release, the company said it plans to open a 90,000-square-foot global headquarters in Thousand Oaks. The building will have room for more than 100 employees. Read More →
Thousand Oaks-based Amgen agreed to pay $71 million in a settlement with California, 47 other states and the District of Columbia because the biotech giant unlawfully promoted two drugs. According to a news release Aug. 18 from California Attorney General Kamala Harris, Amgen unlawfully promoted biologic medications Enbrel and Aranesp by “promoting Aranesp for dosing Read More →
By Henry Dubroff / Friday, August 14th, 2015 / Editorials, Opinion / Comments Off on Mine mishap shows EPA stewardship inadequate
Just when you think environmental stewardship can’t get any worse … it gets worse. About three months ago, the Central Coast witnessed its worst environmental disaster in decades when Plains All American Pipeline leaked more than 140,000 gallons of oil onto the Refugio Beach area. About a fourth of that ended up in the ocean, Read More →
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Ceres, a Thousand Oaks based agriculture-biotechnology company, saw shares spike 373 percent Wednesday after the company received a patent for its iCODE multi-gene trait development system. Ceres shares started the day at just 95 cents per share, and soared all the way to $4.80 when the markets opened at 6:30 a.m. PST. Ceres closed the Read More →
Thousand Oaks-based Teledyne Technologies beat analyst estimates when it reported second-quarter earnings on July 30 but the company still saw a sharp decline in net income. Teledyne posted earnings of $1.34 per share, barely beating analyst estimates of $1.33 per share. Second-quarter revenues were down by 3.2 percent from the second-quarter of 2014, from $597.1 Read More →
