Category Archives: It's Not Easy
Study: Tulare County Ranks Last in Quality-of-Life
Maybe that’s why it’s an Enterprise Zone. From the Sacramento Bee:
Tulare County’s three biggest cities collectively have the lowest quality of life in the 109 mid-sized American metropolitan areas in new survey by Portfolio.com, a website of local business newspapers – and the main reason are their lack of college-trained professional workers.
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The Portfolio. Com [...]
EZ Business Owner Strugles to Justify Staying in California
Here is an editorial that appeared in today’s San Bernardino Sun by the owner of Cannon Safe. Cannon Safe was the venue for Meg Whitman’s tour of the Enterprise Zone back in March.
I recently took a trip to Sacramento to talk to state legislators about the pressing economic issues facing the state of California. [...]
More Evidence of Businesses Fleeing California
The Business Relocation Coach has updated his list of companies that have fled California from 114 to 129.
More Cases of Employers Leaving California
The Business Relocation Coach provides some more examples of employers leaving California in recent years that he has compiled:
Events prove once again how difficult it is to assemble a list of companies that have left California. After a recent radio appearance, I was inundated with information about company departures that I’ve not previously listed. Below [...]
EZ Expansion Into Berkeley Approved
Last July I posted a video of a meeting of the Oakland City Council where there was a passionate appeal to expand Oakland’s Enterprise Zone into part of the City of Berkeley in order to prevent Bayer Health Care from relocating a major facility out of the country. In September word came that Bayer had [...]
Study: Cost of Regulation
KQED’s John Myers, in his Capital Notes Blog, discusses the background and implications of a new study released this week, “Cost of State Regulations on California Small Business Study.” The 85 page study is posted on the State’s Small Business Advocacy page here:
Cost of State Regulations on California Small Business Study [...]
Bayer Will Stay in Berkeley!
Breaking news from the Contra Costa Times:
BERKELEY — Bayer HealthCare announced Wednesday it will invest more than $100 million to upgrade and improve its manufacturing capabilities here, a decision that dispels fears the pharmaceutical giant would exit this city.
The decision by Bayer HealthCare to manufacture future versions of its hemophilia drug Kogenate isn’t just about [...]
Capitol Weekly Editorial: “State’s Economic Woes Reflect State’s Poor Leadership”
Here is an editorial by CAEZ President Craig Johnson in Capitol Weekly:
n the wake of the overwhelming rejection of the package of budget-related ballot measures crafted by the Governor’s Office and the Legislature, and the seriously flawed budget deal that really nobody is happy with, now is a good time to examine exactly what the [...]
Nevada Keeps Trying to Lure California Businesses
From the Las Vegas Sun:
The Nevada Development Authority’s newest advertising campaign to lure Southern California businesses to Las Vegas says if they stay there they can “kiss their assets goodbye.”
The $1 million campaign, which breaks Friday in Southern California on television, radio and print, is the NDA’s latest attempt at enticing businesses to relocate.
Similar previous [...]
Breaking News: Tax Foundation: “California is Not a Low-Tax State”
From the Tax Foundation’s Tax Policy Blog:
California is Not a Low-Tax State, Despite Proposition 13
by Joseph Henchman
Joel Kotkin at Forbes wonders what killed California’s economy:
It took some amazing incompetence to toss this best-endowed of places down into the dustbin of history. Yet conventional wisdom views the crisis largely as a legacy of Proposition 13, which [...]
California Slips on Forbes List
Dan Walters at the Sacramento Bee alerts us to California’s new rank in business friendliness:
California has dropped from 34th to 40th place in Forbes magazine’s annual rankings of states’ business climates – just in time to help Republican legislators make their pitch for adopting business-friendly policies as part of any deal on the overdue state [...]
Siskiyou EZ Makes National News
An Enterprise Zone story has just hit the national media via a link on the Drudge Report, “California may sue to block water-bottling plant over global warming impact…“ Nestle has been struggling for years to build a new water bottling plant in the Siskiyou Enterprise Zone, but environmentalists have presented steady opposition against the project. [...]
L.A.’s New Anti-Enterprise Zone
Will limiting the kinds of businesses that can locate in an area encourage economic development?
LOS ANGELES (AP) – City officials are putting South Los Angeles on a diet.
The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to place a moratorium on new fast food restaurants in an impoverished swath of the city with a proliferation of such eateries [...]
L.A. Trash Zone
The Los Angeles Times reports on a new kind of zone that largely corresponds to the city’s Enterprise Zone:
In the wake of a Times report that illegal trash dumping is plaguing some of Los Angeles’ poorest neighborhoods, state officials announced Tuesday that they would give the city a $500,000 grant to help crack down on [...]
