Tourism roundup: Santa Ynez Valley tourism marketing groups combine forces
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Read More →Thomas Aquinas sues over birth-control mandate
Santa Paula-based Thomas Aquinas College has joined with several other Catholic educational institutions in a lawsuit against the federal government over a mandate that the school provide coverage for contraceptives under the Affordable Care Act. The lawsuit was filed in Washington D.C. The college’s co-plaintiffs are the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Washington, The Catholic University Read More →
Read More →NFP buys Simi Valley entertainment insurance firm
A division of National Financial Partners Corp., one of the largest insurance brokerage firms in the country, has acquired a niche Simi Valley business for an undisclosed amount. New York-based NFP said Sept. 9 that its had bought Insurance West Corp., a Ventura County-based firm that offers insurance to the entertainment equipment rental industry as Read More →
Read More →Warner pleads guilty to tax evasion, faces $53M penalty
Ty Warner, the Chicago billionaire and part-time Santa Barbara resident who owns the Four Seasons Biltmore, has been charged with federal tax evasion and plans to pay a $53 million penalty. Warner, the mind behind the wildly successful Beanie Baby toys, was charged with allegedly failing to report income he earned in a secret offshore Read More →
Read More →Business Times founder honored with entrepreneurship award
Henry Dubroff, the founder, editor and chairman of the Pacific Coast Business Times, was honored with the Joe Nida Entrepreneurial Spirit Award at the 2013 Clean Business Investment Summit in Santa Barbara on Sept. 12.
The award recognizes exceptional work promoting entrepreneurship on the South Coast. “Henry has been at the heart of the success of so many entrepreneurs, businesses, and organizations throughout our region — including our own,” California Coast Venture Forum CEO Jerry Knotts said in a statement. “We are extremely honored to present The Joe Nida Spirit Award to Henry, to acknowledge his exhaustive efforts on behalf of entrepreneurs and to salute him as an example of entrepreneurship and clean business growth.”
Read More →Health leaders: ACA gets top marks for access but implementation still lags
As it nears the takeoff point, Obamacare gets an “A” for increased access but just average grades for implementation, so far. That was the consensus view among a panel of health care experts at the kickoff on Sept. 17 for California Lutheran University’s Corporate Leader’s Breakfast series. Dr. Matteo Dinolfo of UCLA Health gave the Read More →
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