Oil money is ripe for the taking
When it comes to running a business, it’s generally a bad idea to leave money on the table. Not leaving money on the table means grabbing revenue that’s easy whenever it’s easy to grab it. And after witnessing the California budget meltdown this summer, it’s astonishing to see how much money the state left on Read More →
Read More →Dalidio
Ernie Dalidio has not always been lucky with his San Luis Obispo Marketplace project. He’s been thumped by bureaucrats, stumped by politicials, delayed, distracted and was forced to spend big bucks on a referendum to get his project passed. But Dalidio’s luck may be changing and the SLO Marketplace may yet come to fruition as Read More →
Read More →SLO event ordinance a blow to business
A prime example of job-killing regulation is coming to light in San Luis Obispo County. That’s because a group of environmentalists and “buy local” have joined forces to advocate for a countywide ordinance that would ban most private, for-profit activity on agricultural land. In other words, no more weddings, retirement parties, fundraisers, corporate celebrations or Read More →
Read More →California budget may just be a short-term fix, after all
California has a budget, but how long will it last? And what will be done about the pension time bomb? Don Facciano of the Ventura County Taxpayers Association believes the legislature will be back considering more cuts in a few months. Others think it may be a mid-year correction. Meanwhile there is the question of Read More →
Read More →In memory of Lompoc Mayor Dick DeWees
The news that Lompoc Mayor Dick DeWees had died came to me completely out of the blue. I literally picked the news out of the fax machine when Tom Pfeifer of U.S. Rep Elton Gallegly’s office sent out a message of condolence. I had no idea Dick was ill or had a medical condition that Read More →
Read More →In honor of a business news leader
We’ll take a few words to honor Ray Shaw, a journalist and entrepreneur who died suddenly this month at age 75. Beginning in the late 1980s, Shaw led Charlotte, N.C.-based American City Business Journals, the nation’s foremost owner of weekly financial news publications. As a former Wall Street Journal reporter, Shaw rose through the ranks Read More →
Read More →Perils and promise for an ugly budget deal
As this newspaper was going to press, the California budget was little more than a thumbnail sketch produced for the media and the credit markets. Nonetheless, the compromise had the required impact — headlines for the press and a dramatic decline in the interest rate on Golden State bonds. Although the heavy lifting on the Read More →
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