Our View: Thousand Oaks takes smart route to growth
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Read More →Opinion: Tips for making it through the rest of the Zoom era
By Gerhard Apfelthaler After a full year of taking meetings, interviewing candidates, attending conferences, teaching classes or attending seminars via Zoom or similar online platforms, we all know: Zoom fatigue is real, and it is awful. While we are all thankful for videoconferencing technology, most of us have experienced that a regular eight-hour day on Read More →
Read More →Opinion: Don’t tax California’s family businesses to death
By Ken Monroe In recent months, there’s been a lot of attention paid to some high-profile California businesses that have decided to move some or all of their operations to lower-cost states. Oracle, the second largest software maker in the world, is moving its corporate headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin, while Hewlett Packard Enterprise—whose Read More →
Read More →Letter to the Editor: We can’t become numb to the horror of mass shootings
Dear Editor: Thank you for writing this article, Henry (“Measuring time by massacres, from Columbine to Boulder,” March 26). You are right that it is horrific to measure time by mass shootings. I am a journalist as well. We have had two mass shootings in our family now, one where Micayla was murdered in the Read More →
Read More →Dubroff: The seven layers of e-commerce hell
1. Supplier stiletto: The descent begins with an innocuous email from a supplier indicating your account has been sold and a new vendor will require a switch of e-commerce processing. Before you finish your polite reply, your blood begins to drip on to the floor. 2. Authorize auto-da-fe: You set up a new account with the Read More →
Read More →Our View: Ventura County is manufacturing a better future
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Read More →Opinion: Don’t throw away Ventura County taxpayer dollars at Toland Road Landfill
By David GrauVentura County Taxpayers Association The Ventura Regional Sanitation District is an enterprise public agency that provides landfill services for solid waste, water and wastewater services within Ventura County. Operating revenue is generated by various contracts with public agencies. VRSD is governed by a board of directors that include city council members from Camarillo, Read More →
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