Retired Superior Court Judge Steven Hintz is the newly elected Ventura County treasurer-tax collector. We discuss Ventura County property tax revenues in 2011.

Bill Watkins helped give meaning to the economic recovery in Ventura County. The Director of CLU Center for Economic Research & Forecasting joined us to tell us what’s ahead for the Ventura economy in 2011.

David Peterson has remarkable insight into the operations of the world’s largest restaurant company, McDonald’s. He’s a local boy who’s going to tell us about the invention of the Egg McMuffin and the man who invented it—his father.

Matthew Graczyk taps into everyone’s desire to save money. He’s the founder of Coupeez, a local Internet-based coupon company. We discuss the Google-Groupon merger to discover our deep-seeded desire for a bargain.

Vince Restivo is a restauranteur who’s opened a new restaurant in Thousand Oaks called Vitello’s Trattoria. We find out what it takes to open a restaurant in today’s economy.

Kevin Chaffin is the winner of DMC Transmission’s Grand Prize Give-a-way. He was strolling through the Pacific View mall one day, filled out an entry form and was selected the winner from thousands of entrants.