Small Business Day and Disgruntled Small Businesses
The annual Small Business Day event hits Sacramento today with elected officials recognizing small businesses from their districts. All small business people are not alike in attitude and reaction to government requirements but you can take the temperature of small business attitudes when owners of small businesses gather together. So it was when I dropped […]
California’s Local Elected Officials Divided on Top Political & Policy Issues — Except One
It’s no secret the country is more polarized than ever – and polling of local elected officials shows it’s no different among our state’s mayors and councilmembers. As part of our 10th anniversary at CaliforniaCityNews.org, we partnered with the Prime Group, an opinion research firm with offices in Los Angeles and D.C., to conduct a […]
In CA Festival Bubble, Bet on Garlic Over Gaga
You heard it here first: The next bubble to burst in California, perhaps even before Silicon Valley and real estate, just might be the festival bubble. The festival economy is growing so fast that it runs the risk of overheating. Even after expanding from one weekend to two in 2012, and increasing capacity this past […]
The Best Small and Medium-Size Cities For Jobs 2017
Much of the U.S. media tends to see smaller cities as backwaters, inevitably left behind as the “best and brightest” head to the country’s mega-regions. The new economy, insists the Washington Post, favors large cities for start-ups and new businesses. Richard Florida has posited the emergence of a “winner take all urbanism” that tends to favor the richest cities, such […]