Watkins: California jobs boom not what it seems
The Golden State has been outpacing the U.S. in job creation over the last three years, but all is not well. Skyrocketing housing costs mean that with a few exceptions clustered around the tech boom, California’s coastal counties are retirement havens, not entrepreneurship hubs. That’s the view from Bill Watkins, director of the California Economic Read More →
Read More →How California is innovating its way to better economic times
If there is one word that marks the current resurgence of California’s economy, it is this: innovation. During a road day on Sept. 9 that took me from the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley to the new Deckers Outdoor Corp. headquarters in Goleta, the I-word was used at least a few dozen times. And Read More →
Read More →Editorial: Thanks, but we’ll stay in California
Oh no, not L.A. Reports that a proposed initiative to split California into six states might make the ballot in 2016 has our blood boiling. That’s because the author of the cockamamie scheme, Bay Area venture capitalist Tim Draper, insists on lumping Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties together with Los Angeles County Read More →
Read More →California fails to make the grade when it comes to valuing universities
A new report from the California Budget Project underscores how poorly voters, bureaucrats and elected officials have managed the state’s signature assets.
Read More →Brown’s rainy-day plan is the sane solution to California budget crises
Gov. Jerry Brown may be looking to make the rebalancing of California’s budget the signature achievement of his second administration.
Read More →Covered California executive to keynote Champions luncheon
Next month’s Champions in Health Care event will feature Chris Patton, vice president of sales and agent management for Covered California’s Small Business Health Options Program.
Read More →Watkins: California’s budget surplus thanks to stock market, not Brown
California is adding jobs faster than the national average, and the state has a budget surplus for the first time since the dot-com bubble burst in 2000. That’s led to some glowing national press for Gov. Jerry Brown, including a Rolling Stone article that called his budget turnaround a “miracle.”
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