Valley Economy

I did a fair amount of work on the Endangered Species Act before moving to the Valley. My Ph.D. dissertation was the first study to empirica...

Toyota's Board officially decided to end production at NUMMI in March 2010 this morning. This is an absolutely huge blow for the East Ba...

The Friends of NUMMI are claiming that closing the Toyota plant (called NUMMI from its days of joint operation with GM) will cost 50,000 jo...

The July 2009 report shows the CA unemployment rate at 11.9% and total non-farm jobs are now down 950,000 from its peak exactly 2 years ago ...

Yesterday was the first day of school for my kids, so I spent last night looking over their schedules and school materials such as staff dir...

Everyone in economic development in Northern California has their eyes on what is now a Toyota plant in Fremont. A Japanese paper printed a...

I have received several comments from environmentalists about our recently released Fish or Foreclosure study that wonder why I say the drou...

When, I saw a news report that the preliminary cost-benefit analysis on Temperance Flat Dam found a benefit-cost ratio of 1 to 1, my inner ...

I went to the California Water Issues Forum on Wednesday to learn and to ask questions. I wrote my questions on a card as directed, and wait...

I'm not surprised that Bill Jennings of the California Sport Fishing Protection Alliance is a fan of the report we released yesterday on...

Today, I was the luncheon speaker at a meeting of Specialty Crop Trade Council . It was a group of about 40 growers and marketers, mostly o...

An interesting pair of viewpoints on manufacturing jobs in the Sunday Sacramento Bee. Chris Thornburg and Jon Haveman of Beacon Economics sh...

As someone who subscribes to several newspapers even though I mostly read them on-line, this video made me feel warm and fuzzy inside. I ca...

Some interesting comments from some of the hard hit Westside drought farmers in this Mother Jones article (No I don't normally read Moth...

Damn, I knew I should have bought a used SUV 5 years ago instead of a used VW. If I had made that bad environmental choice in the past, I co...