California Forward
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has signed on to serve as Honorary Co-Chair of the California Economic Summit, scheduled for November 7-8 in Los Angeles.
read moreFirst and most importantly, for the first time in 10 years, California opened–or re-opened–the California-China Trade and Investment office in Shanghai
read moreTo say finances for local governments in California are challenging, is a drastic understatement.
read moreA U.S. Bankruptcy judge has given the green light for the city of Stockton to enter into bankruptcy protection, making it the most populous city in the nation to do so.
read moreIt’s common knowledge that the majority of farm laborers in the United States are undocumented immigrants. Less commonly known is the fact that migrant labor has been on a steady decline.
read moreCurrently, some 250,000 Californians in the San Joaquin and Salinas Valleys have nitrate contamination issues, according to a study released by UC Davis last spring. Compounding the problem, these communities are some of the poorest in our state.
read moreWe had the opportunity to sit down with California Community Colleges Chancellor Brice Harris. With just three months under his belt, the Chancellor explains why he believes better days are on the horizon.
read moreThe fiscal cliff wasn’t the only cliff that threatened the nation’s economic balance to start the year. Elected officials in Washington were also grappling with how to keep the nation from going headfirst off the dairy cliff.
read moreIn effect, the sentiment can be surmised as one of pleasant surprise, somewhere along the lines of “wow, I’m sure glad I didn’t place a bet on that one.”
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