Letter: Eventually top taxpayers will be milked dry
Dear Editor: In the July 20-26 issue of the Business Times, Bloomberg News op-ed columnist Margaret Carlson is quoted saying that “the top 1 percent pay the lowest tax rate in 80 years.” She makes this remark in the context of suggesting that Republicans play their own role in class warfare. Her remarks, like those Read More →
Read More →Editorial: Private sector, not train, likely to put state on track
Despite an improving economy, discontent is simmering across California this summer.
Read More →Editorial: Remembering Harold Frank
The region’s prowess in growing technology companies owes a lot to this electrical engineer.
Read More →Letter: Remembering Jack Gilbert, a fine businessman and friend
If he had not taken the gamble I would never be where I am today.
Read More →Op/ed: Washington’s attack on job creators is hurting future generations
Congressional candidate Abel Maldonado, R-Santa Maria, on creating private-sector jobs.
Read More →Editorial: Following-up on Congressional insider trades
In late July, our news pages carried an article about a series of potentially favorable stock trades in shares of Thousand Oaks-based Amgen that may have benefited the wealthy wife of U.S. Sen. John Kerry. Disclosure of the trades, made in 2007 on behalf of a trust that benefits Teresa Heinz Kerry, would not have Read More →
Read More →Op/ed: Supporting our innovation economy is the key to prosperity
Rep. Lois Capps, D-Santa Barbara, on economic development.
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