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Editorial: California minimum wage increase could backfire

By   /  Friday, September 20th, 2013  /  Editorials, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Editorial: California minimum wage increase could backfire

Any increase in the minimum wage is likely to be met with reduced hours or increased workloads.

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Editorial: Camarillo offers a fiscal stability model for cities

By   /  Friday, July 26th, 2013  /  Editorials, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Editorial: Camarillo offers a fiscal stability model for cities

What does it take for a city in California to get a AAA rating from Standard & Poor’s?

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Op/ed: Making affordable health insurance for California small businesses and workers a priority

By   /  Friday, May 10th, 2013  /  Op/Eds, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Op/ed: Making affordable health insurance for California small businesses and workers a priority

But because of the Affordable Care Act, California’s small businesses and their employees are getting better choices.

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Op/ed: Immigration reform can move our economy forward

By   /  Friday, May 10th, 2013  /  Op/Eds, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Op/ed: Immigration reform can move our economy forward

By Daniel Grossman and Mick Hellman on May 10, 2013 From the business parks of Silicon Valley to the fields of the Central Valley, immigrants help fuel California’s economic engine. Unfortunately, our nation’s immigration policies resemble a badly tuned carburetor, restricting the full participation of immigrants in our system, choking them and us of oxygen Read More →

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Closing the gap between the Tri-Counties’ haves and have nots

By   /  Friday, March 29th, 2013  /  Columns, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Closing the gap between the Tri-Counties’ haves and have nots

How choppy and tough is the recovery in our region? Recent unemployment data from Santa Barbara County underscored the “haves and have nots” phenomenon that underpins a society that is segregated into tourism centers with uber-rich residents and agricultural cities where the poor people who service the tourists and the rich folks reside. Consider that Read More →

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Editorial: The perils of a declining Golden State population

By   /  Friday, March 22nd, 2013  /  Editorials, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Editorial: The perils of a declining Golden State population

California’s stubbornly high unemployment rate reflects structural problems that simply will not go away.

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Reflecting on a tumultuous five years in business journalism

By   /  Friday, March 15th, 2013  /  Columns, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Reflecting on a tumultuous five years in business journalism

In financial journalism, it seems the future belongs more and more to the specialists.

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