Valley Economy

In today's report, some people are trying to make something positive of dropping below the 12% unemployment threshold to 11.9%.  They sh...

A J.P. Morgan Chase analyst estimates that the value of "squatter's rent" will total $50 billion in the U.S.  That's a sig...

Overall, this is a good article and I generally agree with the main points in the article in the report.  Public access to the water in the ...

Given all the local commotion about the Forbes miserable city list, I assigned a student intern to compile the data Forbes used and reverse ...

Two years ago, on May 1, 2009, the Sacramento Bee published an op-ed I wrote titled "Water Won't Wash Away Valley's Recession....

I was looking for recent MWD cost analysis on a canal, and found  this Powerpoint presentation from a MWD committee meeting that was today ...

Some readers have asked for elaboration on the McClintock/PPIC comparison in the last post.  Tom McClintock wrote this in a recent article i...

It's been over a month since I posted anything significant on water. Time has been short.  There is plenty to blog about so here are a f...

From today's Sac Bee article on folks lining up to work for McDonalds.  McDonald's and other fast-food chains, once a first job f...

The quarterly update to our 5 year state and northern California metro forecast has been released. The short-term forecast for the state and...

Congratulations to Mendota High students for this tremendous achievement. http://www.fresnobee.com/2011/04/04/2337255/mendota-high-students...

Could the employment situation in Sacramento be even worse than we thought?  The 3rd quarter 2010 data from the QCEW (Quarterly Census of Em...

It may be time to finally change the title of this monthly post from "Unemployment Friday" to "Employment Friday"....unl...

Tom Philp, executive strategist for the Metropolitan Water District, compares the Bay Bridge replacement to Delta Conveyance  when discussin...

I don't think I've seen two public calls for cost-benefit analysis of water projects all year.  While browsing Aquafornia tonight, I...