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Five tri-county economic trends we’ll be watching in the New Year

By   /  Friday, January 3rd, 2014  /  Columns, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Five tri-county economic trends we’ll be watching in the New Year

Conventional wisdom holds that with a federal budget in hand, a financial system on the mend, rising housing prices and steady job growth, 2014 ought to be a pretty darn good year.

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IPOs may be the name of the game for tri-county tech in 2014

By   /  Friday, January 3rd, 2014  /  Columns, Technology  /  Comments Off on IPOs may be the name of the game for tri-county tech in 2014

When I’m out at networking events, I often get asked, “How’s tech doing in the region?” And over the past year or so, my answer has been, “We’ll know the answer in 2014 and 2015.”

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Showcasing some wines seldom heard of on the grapevine

By   /  Friday, December 20th, 2013  /  Columns, Wine & Viticulture  /  Comments Off on Showcasing some wines seldom heard of on the grapevine

It’s a lot easier to drink than pronounce the names of the lesser-known Italian varietal wines poured at the Sunland Vintage Winery tasting room in Thousand Oaks.

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Year of awards and new hires positions PCBT for growth in 2014

By   /  Friday, December 20th, 2013  /  Columns, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Year of awards and new hires positions PCBT for growth in 2014

Henry Dubroff

Pacific Coast Business Times has undergone a substantial expansion during 2013, so I thought I would exercise my editor’s prerogative and talk a little about what we’ve accomplished this year and where we are headed in the New Year.

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Attorney found passion for environmental law in Antarctica

By   /  Friday, December 13th, 2013  /  Columns, Law  /  Comments Off on Attorney found passion for environmental law in Antarctica

Kristin Larson took the long route to the law and back to the Tri-Counties. Larson, who specializes in combing over deals for potential environmental law issues, spent a decade in Antarctica as a research scientist before heading off to law school and a career in M&A law.

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A speed bump on the way to creating a chamber-led vitality group

By   /  Friday, December 13th, 2013  /  Columns, Opinion  /  Comments Off on A speed bump on the way to creating a chamber-led vitality group

Henry Dubroff

The most concentrated effort to date to create a Santa Barbara County economic vitality organization has hit a roadblock. And that roadblock appears to be the Board of Supervisors’ bitterly divided vote on the Santa Maria Energy project, where South County supervisors banded together to impose severe carbon emissions limits on an innovative onshore oil and gas development that had broad support in North County.

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Camarillo retail center’s new owners plot big improvements

By   /  Friday, December 13th, 2013  /  Columns, Real Estate  /  Comments Off on Camarillo retail center’s new owners plot big improvements

The buyer of the Camarillo Plaza shopping center was a joint venture between Peter Cohen of Cardinal Equities LLC and a Beverly Hills-based family partnership.

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