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Another bad week for jobs

The news that Santa Rosa stent-maker TriVascular is progressing with European trials and is continuing to hire is welcome.

Also this week, telecom-equipment maker Calix in Petaluma said it had raised $82 million in its initial public offering. More good news.

But even these positive developments, and certainly there are more to come, are overwhelmed by larger and continuing job losses driven by the bad economy and assaults on business.

The Kucinich cave, the Woolsey waffle and health care

Call it the Kucinich cave, or the Woolsey waffle. They were against the health care bill before they were for it.

No. 1, bury the sprawl myth; then change the message

Sonoma State University School of Business and Economics Dean Bill Silver declared recently “The Time is Now” for a regional economic strategy.

Forthwith, taking cues from Dr. Silver and others, here are 10 steps toward reaching that goal.

‘Reconciliation’ would violate the democratic process

It is said that the definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over expecting a different result.