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By Editorial Board / Saturday, April 19th, 2014 / Editorials, Opinion / Comments Off on Editorial: New Oxnard city manager has big to-do list to tackle
Greg Nyhoff will fill a void that’s existed since Ed Sotelo was put on paid leave early in 2012. That means Oxnard spent two years and four months with no one at the helm.
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By Henry Dubroff / Friday, April 11th, 2014 / Columns, Opinion / Comments Off on Paso Robles wine pioneer sets out in pursuit of the $100 bottle
Paso Robles winemaker Daniel Daou is pursuing the holy grail of California vintners: A cabernet sauvignon or Bordeaux that can reliably fetch $100 a bottle.
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By Editorial Board / Friday, April 4th, 2014 / Editorials, Opinion / Comments Off on Editorial: Unveiling the secrets of high-frequency trading
Michael Lewis doesn’t see himself as a business journalist. “I like to write about markets,” he told a small group of his peers at a conference in Phoenix on March 28. With that simple, declarative sentence, Lewis dropped a subtle hint about his next exposé. Indeed, a few nights later on “60 Minutes,” Lewis made Read More →
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By Henry Dubroff / Friday, April 4th, 2014 / Columns, Opinion / Comments Off on Business lessons learned from region’s largest corporate bankruptcy
At least in terms of revenue, Select is the largest company in the history of the Tri-Counties to seek Chapter 11 protection from creditors.
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By Henry Dubroff / Friday, March 28th, 2014 / Columns, Opinion / Comments Off on Limoneira could lead water-efficiency push in California drought
One of the cool things about covering business in the Tri-Counties is that at least once a year we get a pretty close look at what’s happening at one of the region’s largest agribusiness holding companies. That’s because Santa Paula-based Limoneira Co., founded in 1893, happens to be a publicly traded company. The company began Read More →
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By Editorial Board / Friday, March 28th, 2014 / Editorials, Opinion / Comments Off on Editorial: Santa Barbara politicos trade places as fiscal clock ticks
Santa Barbara County Supervisor Peter Adam and Santa Barbara Mayor Helene Schneider are an unlikely political pairing.
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By Guest commentary / Friday, March 28th, 2014 / Op/Eds, Opinion / Comments Off on Op/ed: Putting the leadership into thought leadership
It’s becoming an increasingly important aspect of a company’s marketing strategy, but in my experience, many executives are uncomfortable about the idea of being thought leaders.
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