Second Place in Gov. Race Still Up for Grabs Despite Newt’s Assessment
Republicans are having a hard time making a case that they still matter in California. One such effort was last week’s op-ed piece by Newt Gingrich for Fox News: “[Republican] John Cox has “great potential… to win the governorship seven months from now.” The Cox campaign has circulated the Gingrich assessment, ramping it up even more: […]
Polling Puzzles
Some interesting—and puzzling—findings reflected in the new Public Policy Institute of California survey on the mix of education and politics. Of course, major attention will focus the governor’s race. The PPIC survey showed little change from the previous PPIC forecast with Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom leading the field at 26%, Republican businessman John Cox at 15%, former Los […]
Millennials Prefer Suburban Living
To most builders, housing demand is meaningless unless it’s in their backyard or in some nearby community. That is, most homebuilders don’t stray too far from the markets they know. What we recently learned from the U.S. Bureau of the Census will be well received by those builders: thanks to the interest millennials are taking […]
Bullet Train Colliding with Reality
Reality may finally be catching up with the vision – or pipedream – of a 200-mile-per-hour train connecting California’s northern and southern regions. A few weeks ago, the High-Speed Rail Authority released its latest “business plan” that was supposed to tell Californians how the brief stretch of track now being constructed in the San Joaquin Valley can […]