Thoughts on the Primary Results
Caveats aside that there are more VBM and provisional ballots yet to be counted, here are some initial thoughts on what happened this past Tuesday (all numbers are from 8:41 AM June 8 Secretary of State update). Presidential Race – Ending with a whimper While the Republican contest was supposed to be a barnburner only […]
Election Prediction Record Not Bad—What Do Results Mean?
How’d I do with my Election Day predictions? Not bad. Would I be writing a follow-up article if I had a miserable night gazing into the crystal ball? Here are the predictions and results with a look at what these results might mean: Presidential Race As I predicted, Hillary Clinton won by the more than the […]
The Little Train That Couldn’t: CA’s High Speed Rail
California’s high-speed rail project has fallen into a ditch due to yet another delay. Now would be a good time to put a bullet in this bullet-train scheme before even more billions of taxpayers’ dollars are wasted. The California High-Speed Rail Authority denies there’s a holdup. Maybe it’s just a matter of semantics. What critics are calling […]
What It Means to Be ‘California’s Bank’
If California were a bank, what sort of bank would it be? Banc of California has a new and intriguing answer to that question: In just six years, “California’s bank,” as it calls itself, has emerged as one of America’s fastest-growing banks—from $700 million in assets when it recapitalized the old First PacTrust Bancorp. in […]
California Awarded Top Honors for Job Creation and Economic Development
(Editor’s note: The following press release was issued by the California Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz)) California Awarded Top Honors for Job Creation and Economic Development Area Development Magazine Awards GO-Biz and California First-Ever Gold Shovel Award Sacramento Calif. – Further bolstering California’s position as the national leader in job creation, the Governor’s […]