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Doug Halter tells us what it takes to grow the Ventura Botanical Gardens from an embryonic idea to a public asset benefiting the community.

Ed Summers is the CEO of the Ventura Chamber of Commerce. We discuss doing business in Ventura and how businesspeople can take advantage of what that organization has to offer.

Guests include Ventura Chamber of Commerce CEO Ed Summers; local celebrity Cindy Cash; cybersecurity expert Bruce Anderson; Barack Obama detractor David Limbaugh; environmental skeptic Ozzie Zehner; and financial reporter Michael Casey.

Prior to the California Lutheran University Center for Economic Research and Forecasting 2012 forecast, I spoke to several dignitaries attending the event including Ed Summers, CEO of the Ventura Chamber of Commerce; Cheryl Heitmann, Deputy Mayor of Ventura; Mary Ann Rooney, Oxnard Harbor Commissioner; and Kristin Decas, CEO of the Oxnard Harbor.

Guests include Ventura Breeze publisher Sheldon Brown, social media guru Randall Craig discussing the future of social media and Simon Garfield giving a history of typography.

Here is the lineup of guests on BRAINSTORMIN’ with Billy the Brain for Friday, August 26, 2011. Listen at www.BrainstorminOnline.com or on AM 1400 in Ventura at 10 o’clock am Pacific time.