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Editorial: Ventura County schools unwrap academy effort

By   /  Friday, November 28th, 2014  /  Editorials, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Editorial: Ventura County schools unwrap academy effort

We hope that other districts up and down the Central Coast pay attention to what works — and what doesn’t work — as the Career Pathways program in Oxnard gets under way. It should hold important lessons for creating a 21st-century economy across our region.

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Dubroff: From Main Street to Wall Street, it’s time for a Christmas spree

By   /  Friday, November 28th, 2014  /  Columns, Latest news, Opinion, Top Stories  /  Comments Off on Dubroff: From Main Street to Wall Street, it’s time for a Christmas spree

With the holiday retail season getting under way, it’s time to do a bit of shopping of our own — with a look at a few retail stocks to watch.

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Bank Secrecy Act spoils Christmas for merchants who prefer cash

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Sometimes something that starts out with good intention can turn bad. This seems to be what has happened with the Bank Secrecy Act of 1970.

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Op/ed: Lessons from Japan’s struggle to recover from a post-bubble bout of deflation

By   /  Friday, November 21st, 2014  /  Op/Eds, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Op/ed: Lessons from Japan’s struggle to recover from a post-bubble bout of deflation

At its core, Abe’s decision to postpone the consumption-tax increase reflects the chaos that prolonged weak economic momentum inflicts on countries wishing to pursue more than one objective — in this case, raising living standards, curtailing the growth in government debt and breaking the private sector’s deflationary mindset.

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Editorial: Justice for Alvaro

By   /  Friday, November 21st, 2014  /  Editorials, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Editorial: Justice for Alvaro

Alvaro Medrano, Sr. who, with owner Ken Riding, managed the La Vista Vineyard in Paso Robles, was confronted, beaten and killed by off-duty correctional officers on the streets of San Miguel on Sept. 7.

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Op/ed: What’s ‘right’ and what’s ‘left’ in national political scene

By   /  Friday, November 21st, 2014  /  Op/Eds, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Op/ed: What’s ‘right’ and what’s ‘left’ in national political scene

Bloomberg View’s Cass Sunstein reports on research showing that “partyism” is now an even deeper social division in American society than racism. Political commentator Jonathan Chait thinks that’s just fine: He wouldn’t want his child to marry a Republican.

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Editorial: Tuition hike won’t end calls for reform at UC

By   /  Friday, November 21st, 2014  /  Editorials, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Editorial: Tuition hike won’t end calls for reform at UC

A not-so-stealthy issue in the debate over the University of California’s proposed tuition hikes is the growing economic gap between the system’s 10 campuses and the communities they serve.

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