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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, June 7th, 2010 / Opinion / Comments Off on Editorial: Have a scoop, stand up to union coneheads
With summer on the way, it’s time to eat ice cream. And we can’t think of a better place to try your favorite flavor than Doc Burnstein’s Ice Cream Lab in Arroyo Grande. For reasons that are so obscure as to be plainly stupid, Doc Burnstein’s has been the target of banners and protests by Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, June 7th, 2010 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Tri-county tourism on the rebound
Economists can argue all day about the precise end of this recession, but in the travel and tourism sector, the tri-county region’s biggest private industry, the numbers point very clearly to the spring of 2010. Even for hoteliers who remember the post-Sept. 11 slump, 2009 was one of the most relentlessly horrible years in memory. Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, June 7th, 2010 / Top Stories / Comments Off on A solid business: Wood flooring company looks to region
For Morgan & Teach Plank Co., the wood business is good business. At a time when tri-county companies have struggled and some have shuttered or left the region, Morgan & Teach has snapped up a State Street storefront in Santa Barbara to show off its high-end wood flooring. And President James Tinghitella wants to move Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, June 7th, 2010 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Pacific Capital will keep headquarters
Even as it operates under a tight regulatory regime, Pacific Capital Bancorp, the region’s largest banking company, confirmed to the Business Times that it is not terminating the lease on its downtown Santa Barbara headquarters. It’s a sign that the Ford Financial Fund — a Texas-based investment group in talks with Pacific Capital over a Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, June 7th, 2010 / Columns / Comments Off on Fielding Graduate University outgrows its mansion home
The decision to forge into the future or honor history can be a tough one, especially for a higher education institution. For Fielding Graduate University, it means the decision to stay in a historic Santa Barbara mansion — the university’s home for more than two decades — or to move to a larger, more modern Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, June 7th, 2010 / Columns / Comments Off on Has Amgen solved its conundrum?
For the past decade, the world’s biggest biotechnology company has faced what I have come to call the Amgen conundrum. The company’s revenue and profits keep rising, along with new ways of delivering its core drugs Epogen and Aranesp. But big one ingredient has been missing — a rising share price. After a spectacular rise Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, June 7th, 2010 / Uncategorized / Comments Off on Theater 150 saved by last-minute donors
Ojai’s Theater 150 could breathe a big sigh of relief this week. The small community theater located along Highway 150 recently sent out an e-mail to its supporters asking for desperately needed donations: “We have until Monday, [May 31] to raise a substantial portion of the $140,000 we need to create this new annual festival Read More →
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