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Letter: Eventually top taxpayers will be milked dry

By   /  Friday, August 24th, 2012  /  Letters to the Editor, Opinion  /  Comments Off on 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 →

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Editorial: Private sector, not train, likely to put state on track

By   /  Friday, August 24th, 2012  /  Editorials, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Editorial: Private sector, not train, likely to put state on track

Despite an improving economy, discontent is simmering across California this summer.

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Editorial: Remembering Harold Frank

By   /  Friday, August 24th, 2012  /  Editorials, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Editorial: Remembering Harold Frank

The region’s prowess in growing technology companies owes a lot to this electrical engineer.

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Letter: Remembering Jack Gilbert, a fine businessman and friend

By   /  Friday, August 17th, 2012  /  Letters to the Editor, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Letter: Remembering Jack Gilbert, a fine businessman and friend

If he had not taken the gamble I would never be where I am today.

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Op/ed: Washington’s attack on job creators is hurting future generations

By   /  Friday, August 17th, 2012  /  Op/Eds, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Op/ed: Washington’s attack on job creators is hurting future generations

Congressional candidate Abel Maldonado, R-Santa Maria, on creating private-sector jobs.

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Editorial: Following-up on Congressional insider trades

By   /  Friday, August 17th, 2012  /  Editorials, Opinion  /  Comments Off on 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 →

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Op/ed: Supporting our innovation economy is the key to prosperity

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Rep. Lois Capps, D-Santa Barbara, on economic development.

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