This is the first in a series of posts covering the hearing held by the Assembly Committee on Jobs, Economic Development, and the Economy on August 18, 2009.  I will present video clips from the hearing along with occasional commentary.  The Committee has also updated its website to include some of the background material for the hearings including the agenda and an extensive white paper.

I have created a new category for these posts, “JEDE Hearings 2009,” so that the blog can be easily filtered on this subject.

The first video includes Assemblyman V. Manual Perez’s opening remarks: