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Beyond war games

By   /  Monday, August 17th, 2009  /  Uncategorized  /  Comments Off on Beyond war games

If a terrorist attack or natural disaster hit the Tri-Counties, the first businesses asked for help might not be the ones you’d think. “When you have a mass-casualty event, one of the first businesses that gets tapped is the ice cream companies,” said David Banks, executive director of the Center for Asymmetric Warfare at Point Read More →

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She

By   /  Monday, August 17th, 2009  /  Women Inc.  /  Comments Off on She

Between deftly handling the politics of corporate America and raising her sons, Santa Barbara author Lynn Taylor drew a comparison between the two enterprises: managers act like toddlers. This revelation then took a seven-year journey from its conception to Taylor’s latest book, “Tame your Terrible Office Tyrant.” While unpacking some boxes in 2002, Taylor found Read More →

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New event runs on a fast track

By   /  Monday, August 17th, 2009  /  Women Inc.  /  Comments Off on New event runs on a fast track

June Snow had a great idea and she ran with it. Snow and her husband, Rusty, are the founders and producers of the Santa Barbara Marathon, which will hold its first race this December.   The course will take runners from just west of the Camino Real Marketplace on Hollister Avenue, loop around through Goleta Read More →

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Carp fights oil

By   /  Monday, August 17th, 2009  /  Uncategorized  /  Comments Off on Carp fights oil

Carpinteria’s City Council voted 4-1 on Aug. 10 to appeal a defeat it suffered in a challenge to oil firm Venoco’s efforts to get a drilling initiative on the ballot this fall.   The city council voted in closed session to continue its legal efforts after it lost a Santa Barbara County Superior Court case Read More →

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UCSB

By   /  Monday, August 17th, 2009  /  Opinion  /  Comments Off on UCSB

Vice Chancellor John Wiemann is retiring, but we doubt he’s left the University of California, Santa Barbara, scene forever. For the past 14 years, Wiemann has been the eyes and ears in the community for Chancellor Henry Yang. He’s helped create the UCSB Economic Forecast Project, and he’s shaped community outreach projects on a regionwide Read More →

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FDIC deadline looms for Affinity Bank

By   /  Monday, August 17th, 2009  /  Top Stories  /  Comments Off on FDIC deadline looms for Affinity Bank

Mark your calendars, bank watchers. Aug. 20 could be a big day for Ventura-based commercial real estate lender Affinity Bank. That’s the day the bank will have to show state and federal regulators that it’s either raised a lot of money, shed a lot of troubled loans or come up with some other way to Read More →

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Oil money is ripe for the taking

By   /  Friday, August 14th, 2009  /  Opinion  /  Comments Off on Oil money is ripe for the taking

When it comes to running a business, it’s generally a bad idea to leave money on the table. Not leaving money on the table means grabbing revenue that’s easy whenever it’s easy to grab it. And after witnessing the California budget meltdown this summer, it’s astonishing to see how much money the state left on Read More →

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