NBBJ Insider

Abandon Highway 37 to the Bay?

With relatively little public notice, four obscure Bay Area regional bureaucracies, the Association of Bay Area Governments, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District and the Bay Conservation and Development Commission have come together under the Orwellian sounding OneBayArea.org.

Alliance to focus on economic opportunities

Doug Clark, CEO of Metier, and Steven Harrison, CFO of TriVascular, will speak Wednesday at Sonoma County Alliance breakfast, 7 a.m., Santa Rosa Golf and Country Club.

Green jobs vs. reality

Elected officials today regularly extol the promise of green jobs. It’s a great applause line.

Unfortunately, the reality is something different.

Can struggling state really afford a new costly energy scheme?

A new effort is under way to delay implementation of what many see as the job-killing California cap and trade scheme that was part of AB 32 passed when the economy was at its peak in 2006.

California pension shortfall: $500 billion

A new study finds California public employee pensions are underfunded by more than $500 billion, far higher than previous estimates.

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.

New study on California’s deteriorating labor market

A new report from the Pacific Research Institute reveals that California’s reputation for being a hotbed of economic growth and innovation is fast becoming a myth. The authors argue that economic recovery will be impossible without massive structural and regulatory reforms.