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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, June 28th, 2010 / Opinion / Comments Off on Editorial: Small business is the real key to fixing state
A California Forward meeting for Ventura and Santa Barbara business leaders on June 16 provides a useful marker for how far California has come toward real reform — and how far it needs to go. Over the past several years, voters have overhauled the state’s method for drawing districts and, thanks in part to Lt. Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, June 28th, 2010 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Commercial foreclosures pile up in Ventura County
As multimillion-dollar foreclosures continue to hit Ventura County, commercial real estate insiders and observers are worried that the pain in the market is a long way from over. “We have a recovery in place, but it’s a very, very slow and weak recovery,” said Kirk Lesh, the senior real estate economist at California Lutheran University Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, June 21st, 2010 / Opinion / Comments Off on Editorial: Capps steps up on Gulf oil spill
U.S. Rep. Lois Capps usually is content to capably represent her district and stick to her strengths on issues such as education and health care. But in her response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster on the Gulf Coast, she’s demonstrated real leadership — and proven to her constituents in the 23rd Congressional District that when Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, June 21st, 2010 / Features / Comments Off on Teledyne on another buying spree
Thousand Oaks-based Teledyne Technologies is back in acquisition mode. This month, the defense conglomerate made up of dozens of companies has bought two more: Optimum Optical Systems, a Camarillo firm that will complement Teledyne’s infrared imaging systems for unmammned aerial vehicles; and Intelek, a United Kingdom mini-conglomerate that makes electronic systems for satellite communications. Teledyne Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, June 21st, 2010 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Broadband stimulus cash lands at Occam
In one of the biggest stimulus grants to filter down to a tri-county business, Goleta-based Occam Networks will supply equipment for a $101 million project to bring broadband access to rural Western Kansas. Occam will provide networking equipment to Kansas-based Rural Telephone’s Nex-Tech, which will connect 23,000 households and businesses across 4,600 square miles. “In Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, June 21st, 2010 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Cal Poly set to launch MBA program; CSUCI to follow
Sharpen your pencils and get out your notebooks, Santa Barbara. Two different MBA programs aimed at working professionals will launch in the city over the next two years. Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and CSU Channel Islands are both setting up part-time MBA programs in Santa Barbara, with Cal Poly’s launching first and CSUCI planning Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, June 21st, 2010 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Making the grade: Conejo Valley attracts top corporate talent
Over the past two decades, the Conejo Valley has emerged from a collection of sleepy farm towns to a home for major companies. Good schools and proximity to Los Angeles have a lot to do with the attractiveness of the area to companies such as Dole Food Co., Teledyne Technologies, Amgen and J.D. Power & Read More →
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