Asking The Wrong Question About Brown’s Political Plans
The LA Times recently asked whether Gov. Jerry Brown is running for re-election, even though it’s obvious that he is. The better question – indeed, the biggest purely political question in California electoral politics – is different: is Gov. Brown running for president in 2016? Brown has said previously that he would be more focused […]
New Economic Development Tax Incentive Should Be On The Fast Track
California’s economic development programs have lately been a work in progress – just as these efforts need to shift into overdrive. No time like a recovering economy to put our best foot forward. State government has focused the last couple years on structure: creating a new economic development agency, opening our first new foreign trade […]
California Needs More Champions of Manufacturing
California’s manufacturers are capable of meeting extraordinary challenges and will be the engine of job creation if they have the resources skilled workforce and the long term support of state and local communities. California’s unemployment rate fell from 8.9 percent to 8.7 percent in October but California unfortunately lost another 5,600 manufacturing jobs according to […]
The Revolt Against Urban Gentry
The imminent departure of New York’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and his replacement by leftist Bill DeBlasio, represents an urban uprising against the Bloombergian “luxury city” and the growing income inequality it represents. Bloomberg epitomized an approach that sought to cater to the rich—most prominently Wall Street—as a means to both finance development growth and collect […]