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By Alex Kacik / Friday, May 20th, 2016 / Columns, Latest news, Real Estate / Comments Off on More affordable housing can be developed on South Coast
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By Philip Joens / Thursday, May 19th, 2016 / Latest news, Technology / Comments Off on Osmo wins UCSB New Venture
Osmo, a device that simplifies water sampling and makes it easier for scientists to collect water samples, won the UC Santa Barbara New Venture Competition May 19. By winning the competition the young company won $12,500. UCSB’s Technology Management Program held the competition. About 300 students and 35 teams participated in a program that started Read More →
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By Alex Kacik / Friday, May 13th, 2016 / Central Coast, Latest news, South Coast, Tri-County Economy / Comments Off on Region’s economy growing, but slowly
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By Staff Report / Friday, May 6th, 2016 / Central Coast, Latest news / Comments Off on Lowe’s, HomeGoods coming to Santa Maria
A new retail project will bring Lowe’s and HomeGoods to Santa Maria and re-establish the city as a regional retail hub. That was the message City Manager Rick Hayden brought to the UCSB North County Economic Summit on May 6. He said that Betteravia Plaza will host a relocated Costco and other shops. The Read More →
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By Tony Biasotti / Friday, March 11th, 2016 / Columns, Education, Latest news / Comments Off on Higher education faces disruption because of technology
Business scholar and consultant Clayton Christensen coined the phrase “disruptive innovation” in the 1990s to describe a breakthrough that reshapes a market and displaces its leading firms. Twenty years later, “disruption” might be the defining theory of the modern economy. Print newspapers, brick-and-mortar retail and taxis have been some of its chief victims. On a Read More →
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By Tony Biasotti / Friday, February 5th, 2016 / Columns, Education, Latest news, South Coast / Comments Off on New UC Santa Barbara library worthy of top research university
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By Staff Report / Friday, January 15th, 2016 / Education, Latest news / Comments Off on Cal Poly and UCSB set application record
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and UC Santa Barbara received a record number of applications from prospective freshmen and transfer students. Nearly 57,000 Cal Poly hopefuls applied for the upcoming 2016-17 school year, the college said Jan. 15 in a news release. That was a 2.8 percent increase from the incoming freshmen who applied last year and Read More →
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