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Op/ed: Let’s look at the world as something other than scorched earth

By   /  Friday, September 21st, 2012  /  Op/Eds, Opinion  /  1 Comment

By Scott Harris on September 21, 2012 My wife and I recently spent a very enjoyable weekend in a small resort town in California. The town was beautiful, the people were great and the scenery was fantastic. As we drove in, we fell in love with the mountainsides, the deep forests with huge old-growth trees Read More →

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Editorial: New redevelopment efforts should learn from RDA era

By   /  Friday, September 21st, 2012  /  Editorials, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Editorial: New redevelopment efforts should learn from RDA era

Getting housing right and at the right price is the key piece to the infrastructure puzzle.

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Business lessons learned in fall disasters are lost on politicians in 2012

By   /  Monday, September 17th, 2012  /  Columns, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Business lessons learned in fall disasters are lost on politicians in 2012

The lessons of the three crises — 9/11, Katrina and the Lehman collapse — are hard to put into words.

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Op/ed: Leadership by fiat seldom works

By   /  Friday, September 14th, 2012  /  Op/Eds, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Op/ed: Leadership by fiat seldom works

Effective executives don’t put obstacles in front of people; they help remove them

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Editorial: In post-Cole era, Ventura will need to reinvent itself

By   /  Friday, September 14th, 2012  /  Editorials, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Editorial: In post-Cole era, Ventura will need to reinvent itself

Ventura continues to have a reputation as a place where permits are hard to come by, where city planners are slow to respond and where the rules of the development game are not as transparent as they could be.

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Stability fund could pave way for California out of budget hole

By   /  Friday, September 7th, 2012  /  Columns, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Stability fund could pave way for California out of budget hole

A stability fund should be put into place to hold and recycle windfall IPO tax revenue.

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Editorial: Gov. Brown’s pension moves don’t go far enough

By   /  Friday, September 7th, 2012  /  Editorials, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Editorial: Gov. Brown’s pension moves don’t go far enough

The reforms themselves won’t fix California’s deep pension woes.

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