On May 21, a graduation ceremony was held at the Montecito Country Club in honor of 80 new local entrepreneurs (40 from Santa Barbara County) who graduated from the Self Employment Training Course ...

9/22/03 The city is launching a Self-Employment Training and Micro Enterprise Loan Program to provide an educational opportunity that supports economic self-sufficiency through entrepreneurship and ...

For residents of Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, fall means getting back into the routine: vacations are winding down and children are returning to school. For a number of people, September also ...

As state policymakers take on the 'gig economy' with laws that severely restrict the use of freelance labor, such as California's controversial AB5, I thought it was a good excuse to write about why ...