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San Diego Students Win at Junior Achievement USA’s Company of the Year Competition

| September 6, 2012 | 0 Comments
San Diego Students Win at Junior Achievement USA’s Company of the Year Competition

Last month, at Washington, D.C.’s George Washington University, Junior Achievement USA® (JA) celebrated teen entrepreneurs who own and operate companies created through the JA Company Program®. Both of the Junior Achievement of San Diego and Imperial Counties’ companies went for the win—Cast-A-Waste took home the second place while Place~Mate won the Best Financial Performance Award. […]

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Union Bank Homework Center Under Construction

| September 6, 2012 | 0 Comments
Union Bank Homework Center Under Construction

Union Bank, N.A., recently celebrated a milestone with the San Diego Public Library Foundation — the half-way completion of the Union Bank Homework Center, a full-service homework center under construction on the second floor of San Diego’s new Central Library. Approximately one year ago, Union Bank signed a commitment to support construction of the new […]

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First Avenue Bar & Grille – New York Personality Sans the Attitude

| September 6, 2012 | 0 Comments
First Avenue Bar & Grille – New York Personality Sans the Attitude

This past month a guest and I were invited to a menu tasting at the First Avenue Bar & Grille, located at 1055 First Avenue in downtown San Diego at the Bristol Hotel. The venue is sophisticated, yet comfortable. There’s an intimate bar off to the left as you enter the restaurant. Casual meals are […]

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Capital Markets Today

| September 6, 2012 | 0 Comments

I had originally planned to continue writing about Municipal Bonds, but a question I was asked recently really got me thinking: with all of the scandals and problems that have come to light, can we really trust our financial future to Wall Street brokers and bankers. In case you hadn’t heard, HSBC and several other […]

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Reaching for the Stars and Getting Gold

| September 5, 2012 | 0 Comments
Reaching for the Stars and Getting Gold

Local Business Woman Makes Major Strides Over the last several months I have been observing via social media the work related activities of Stacey Blanchet, who is based in Pacific Beach, Calif. She is a busy lady with a lot of projects all happening simultaneously. Her primary business, Your Girl Friday, provides marketing, public relations […]

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The New A, B & Cs of Food Truck Regulation

| July 31, 2012 | 0 Comments
The New A, B & Cs of Food Truck Regulation

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors recently unanimously approved a program for assigning letter grades to the region’s expanding fleet of food trucks and other mobile food operators. Supervisor Ron Roberts, who is serving as board chairman in 2012, first brought the idea of letter grades to his colleagues in February. At that time, […]

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Introduction to Municipal Bonds

| July 31, 2012 | 0 Comments
Introduction to Municipal Bonds

During the past quarter, three municipalities in California filed for bankruptcy protection. The City of Stockton, followed shortly by Mammoth Lakes, and most recently the city of San Bernardino. Each municipality has been rocked by a combination of economic stagnation, declining revenues (property and sales taxes) and, in the case of San Bernardino, (possibly criminal) […]

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How Secure Is Your Password?

| June 30, 2012 | 0 Comments

It seems that news reports about the hacking of some popular website, and the resulting compromising of millions of user names, passwords and other personal data, have become much too commonplace. Do you use a strong password? There’s a very amusing scene in the movie “Clear and Present Danger” in which Harrison Ford and a […]

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Jewish Americans Receive Honors

| June 1, 2012 | 0 Comments
Jewish Americans Receive Honors

In celebration of Jewish American Heritage Month, Union Bank has partnered with KPBS to honor two extraordinary San Diegans for the 2012 Local Heroes program.  The year-long campaign is designed to celebrate and pay tribute to exemplary members of the community who are making a difference by improving their workplace, neighborhoods, region, and the world.  […]

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Asian Pacific Americans Receive Honors

| June 1, 2012 | 0 Comments
Asian Pacific Americans Receive Honors

In celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Union Bank has partnered with KPBS to honor two San Diegans for the 2012 Local Heroes program. The year-long campaign is designed to celebrate and pay tribute to extraordinary members of the community who are making a difference by improving their workplace, neighborhoods, region and the world.  The […]

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