Urban scholar Joel Kotkin of Chapman University takes turns laying into what he describes as a dysfunctional California in a Newsweek article; then goes after a dysfunctional Los Angeles in a Forbes magazine article.
While Kotkin offers some hope that California can rebound from its paralysis as it has in the past from down periods, this time through the efforts of individual entrepreneurs, he says Los Angeles’s hope rides in getting rid of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, whom he gives low marks.
Read the Newsweek piece on California, “Death of the Dream,” by clicking here.
Read the Forbes piece, “The Decline of Los Angeles,” by clicking here.