Valley Economy

The Stockton-Lodi area has a very interesting economy - there are many extremes and averages can be deceptive.  This is well illustrated by ...

Last fall, when the Metropolitan Water District board voted to approve their share of WaterFix, the authorization of the General Manager was...

The annual benchmark revisions of local area employment data was released today (benchmarking is a once a year process to sync the monthly s...

Over the past year, I would estimate the most common press/public question we have received in the Center for Business and Policy Research i...

Donald Trump’s biggest campaign promise was building a $20+ billion wall along the Mexican border.   The financial plan:   “Mexico will pa...

In recent days, there have been multiple news reports that the WaterFix is shifting to a less costly one-tunnel, two-intake project as oppos...

I have been chronicling how the various iterations of Republican tax "cuts" would increase my family's tax bill in order to il...

Last week, the Senate released its tax proposal.  It is a little better for my family than the House proposals and original framework that I...

A few weeks ago, I estimated the Trump tax plan would raise my families taxes by over $4,000 and most likely close to $5,000 per year.  Thi...

There has been some rough press and a lot of making fun of the Stockton Metropolitan Airport's proposal to change it's name to the S...

I have been reviewing the new Republican tax plan framework, and noticed that my family pretty much defines the profile of households that w...

Everyone is speculating about where Amazon is going with its HQ2.  Does Sacramento or the Bay Area have a chance?  Given the national compet...

After 11 years of planning, the $17 billion WaterFix project has no viable financial plan (other than approving a blank check from southern ...

Just a few years after coming out of bankruptcy, the City of Stockton is paying cash for a pair of waterfront towers to serve as its future ...

I recently started adding this table to presentations about the Delta tunnels.  It generated a lot of comments, so I will add it to the blo...