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Ventura County Business Bank gives hope to area banks

By   /  Monday, October 5th, 2009  /  Opinion  /  Comments Off on Ventura County Business Bank gives hope to area banks

It might be the understatement of the decade to say that raising capital has been extremely difficult for area banks. But in a very difficult environment, President Jerry Lukiewski at Ventura County Business Bank has found a way to increase his bank’s capital and perhaps set the stage for the acquisition of assets or other Read More →

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Rejecting Measure B is crucial to city

By   /  Monday, September 28th, 2009  /  Opinion  /  Comments Off on Rejecting Measure B is crucial to city

We’ll go ahead and put the Business Times officially on the record as opposing so-called Measure B height limits for the city of Santa Barbara. We’ve generally been opposed to the more onerous of these measures, whether they cropped up in Ventura or San Luis Obispo. And there are really sound business reasons why unreasonable Read More →

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Your right to know

By   /  Monday, September 28th, 2009  /  Opinion  /  Comments Off on Your right to know

The Business Times Web site received quite a bit of flak from our recent story on a bankruptcy filing involving Montecito’s Klink family. We’ll take a minute to state something that should be obvious — a bankruptcy filing is a public document, which provides any media outlet with an absolute privilege to publish the information Read More →

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Duvall escapades spotlight Sacramento

By   /  Monday, September 21st, 2009  /  Opinion  /  Comments Off on Duvall escapades spotlight Sacramento

Truly it is a strange bunch of creatures who inhabit the area in and around the state capitol in Sacramento. One day they are passing bogus laws designed to punish those who believe in the free enterprise system. The next day they are squabbling over issues that have nothing to do with our state’s urgent Read More →

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Vote for commerce

By   /  Monday, September 21st, 2009  /  Opinion  /  Comments Off on Vote for commerce

Having just taken our state Legislature to task over incompetence, negligence and malfeasance, we must turn to our readers with a simple request. Find the least worst miscreant in the bunch and vote for him or her. There’s no presidential election this year, which means turnout will be low. But we are voting on city Read More →

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Civic Alliance helps stitch Ventura Co. up

By   /  Monday, September 14th, 2009  /  Opinion  /  Comments Off on Civic Alliance helps stitch Ventura Co. up

Not so very long ago, Ventura County was defined by its differences. Oxnard and Ventura came to legal blows over the future of some large retail shops that abandoned the Esplanade Mall for new digs across the Santa Clara River. Agricultural and environmental interests teamed up to pass SOAR, dealing a blow to urban interests Read More →

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The lesson learned from BuenaVentura

By   /  Monday, September 14th, 2009  /  Opinion  /  Comments Off on The lesson learned from BuenaVentura

One of the things we are learning about the current financial crisis is that banks operate best when they really operate as banks. When it was launched a year ago, Banco Buenaventura looked like a great idea for serving the Hispanic community. And we gave the brains behind the institution the benefit of the doubt Read More →

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