Bill’s Recommended Reading & Links
Articles about Business:
- Are These Model Airplanes? (The Wall Street Journal)
People are feeling the frustration of living in RJ Nation. The small regional jets once loved because they replaced rickety, noisy, slow turboprops have multiplied into the majority of domestic airline flights in the U.S., and are now seen as some of the least desirable...
- Small Business Friendliness (American City and County)
Oklahoma City ranked No. 1 in the country in “small business friendliness,” according to a new survey, and Sacramento, Calif., ranked last. Idaho topped all states, with Rhode Island bringing up the rear, according to the survey, “United States Small…
Articles about California:
- Catalyst for a 'Can-Do' State (The California Economic Summit)
California was in the vanguard of regional thinking two decades ago, and with the upcoming California Economic Summit on Friday in Santa Clara, we have taken regional thinking – and more importantly regional action – to a whole new level. Over the past…
- Incentives Sharpen State's Competitive Edge (The Sacramento Bee)
That our California seaports and our film and television industry have something in common seems a real stretch. Terminals, cranes, ships, on one hand. High drama, comedy, superheroes, on the other. Yet these two seemingly disparate industries share…
- What’s Wrong with California? (The Wall Street Journal)
“California is God's best moment," says Joel Kotkin. "It's the best place in the world to live." Or at least it used to be. Mr. Kotkin, one of the nation's premier demographers, left his native New York City in 1971 to enroll at the University of California…