Editorial: MIT connects business community
It is important to recognize the role that programs such as MIT Enterprise Forum of the Central Coast play in the overall economic vitality of the region.
Read More →Editorial: Private sector, not train, likely to put state on track
Despite an improving economy, discontent is simmering across California this summer.
Read More →Editorial: Remembering Harold Frank
The region’s prowess in growing technology companies owes a lot to this electrical engineer.
Read More →Editorial: Following-up on Congressional insider trades
In late July, our news pages carried an article about a series of potentially favorable stock trades in shares of Thousand Oaks-based Amgen that may have benefited the wealthy wife of U.S. Sen. John Kerry. Disclosure of the trades, made in 2007 on behalf of a trust that benefits Teresa Heinz Kerry, would not have Read More →
Read More →Editorial: Simi Valley sights its economic future
Since the deep recession of the early 1990s triggered by post-Cold War defense cuts, Simi Valley has evolved from industrial center to bedroom community to small-business hub. Now, Mayor Bob Huber wants to reinvent the city as what you might call Simi Valley 4.0, combining the best parts of its past but bringing more of Read More →
Read More →Editorial: Ventura County rolls up its sleeves on job creation
Ventura County has taken some first steps toward setting an economic vitality framework into place. A plan presented to the Board of Supervisors on Aug. 7 brings the issue of economic vitality to center stage in a county that’s experienced a very slow recovery from the Great Recession. The plan, presented by the office of Read More →
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