Valley Economy

Although the data lags 6 months, the BLS County Employment and Wages report is one of my favorites because it is real, full population level...

From Tranforming Water: Water Efficiency as Stimulus and Long-Term Investment , a report done by David Mitchell at M.Cubed (with co-authors)...

Understandably, lot's of people asked me what I thought of David Sunding's surprise (to me) presentation at yesterday's BDCP mee...

Critics are calling the Economic Sustainability Plan  a status quo plan.  That isn't right, but I understand how it can be misperceived...

MC Hammer, the rap-pop icon, is among the biggest celebrities of the over half million people that live in the Delta.  He lives on a few acr...

A 15 page draft executive summary of the Economic Sustainability Plan is now available as part of the August 9 draft.  The previous drafts...

The Obama administration  seems to be coming up with a plan to accelerate that trend by packaging foreclosed properties together and sellin...

With the weekend, I forgot to post that we released our July 2011 California and Metro Forecast last Friday.  It was interpreted as gloomy,...

The latest version of the Economic Sustainability Plan was posted last Thursday afternoon, and will be presented to the Delta Protection Co...

Delete the "de" from modest and the result is most.  A recent ACWA report about the draft Economic Sustainability Plan from the...

From the inbox.  It is rare that an obscure article in the Milwaukee Business Journal touches so many different issues important to my job a...

The Business Forecasting Center recently published a brief report on the rental housing market in San Joaquin County.  Despite the collapse...

[Youtube video of Delta fireworks removed for faster blog loading.] Should Delta levees be upgraded and then repaired if they fail? Should...

I have been too busy to follow much of anything for a few days, but a concern has been raised to me that the $200 million agriculture loss f...

[Update Note: This is a description of preliminary results from a first, incomplete draft.  For up to date information on the most recent co...