California has the fifth-largest economy in the world, with an annual GDP of nearly $3 trillion, and is home to 12% of the nation’s population. It is home to the world’s greatest entrepreneurs who live with a mind-set that prepares for the future. A future that advances cutting-edge engineering and…
Op-Eds
How to make or break L.A. What are the candidates’ plans for the city’s four key assets?
April 26, 2013 Russell Goldsmith and Michael Kelly | Russell Goldsmith is the chairman of the Los Angeles Coalition for the Economy and Jobs and chief executive of City National Bank. Michael Kelly is the executive director of the coalition On May 21, Angelenos will have the opportunity to elect…
Transit Projects Would Drive Job Market
Transit Projects Would Drive Job Market http://labusinessjournal.com/news/2011/jul/04/transit-projects-would-drive-job-market/ OP-ED By MICHAEL KELLY Monday, July 4, 2011 The op-ed by Tim Cavanaugh in the June 13 issue of the Business Journal (“Villaraigosa’s 30/10 – Show Me the Money”) was dead wrong. The America Fast Forward plan (formerly 30/10) to speed up transportation…
What’s Next? Blue Economy, ‘New Space’
Los Angeles Business Journal November 26, 2018 Unabridged Version An “innovation cluster” of researchers and startups is starting to form in long underutilized warehouses at the Port of Los Angeles, in pursuit of the idea that the planet’s oceans have the answers to some of mankind’s most perplexing challenges. Aquaculture,…
Public Policymakers Need to Connect with Private Sector – LABJ – February 2013
Public Policymakers Need to Connect With Private Sector – LABJ Feb
Why does so much city-owned land sit idle in Los Angeles?
For the last eight years, I have used my commute from the South Bay to downtown to explore the neighborhoods of Los Angeles. The more I drive, the more I notice what I call L.A.’s “lost space,” mysterious plots of land that sit abandoned or underused throughout the city. On…
Don’t Increase Taxes on Californians – San Francisco Business Times Op-Ed
How are Republican lawmakers hoping to pay for the multi-trillion-dollar federal tax cut they are trying to rush through Congress without hearing or careful scrutiny? In part by double-taxing Californians, New Yorkers and millions of residents of other high-tax, high-services states. This partisan and punitive move is an assault on…
The GOP’s Tax Attack on Blue States – The Los Angeles Times
Since the U.S. income tax was established in 1913, Americans have been able to avoid paying federal taxes on money they already paid out in state and local tax. But the Trump administration and congressional Republicans are looking to change that. Among their proposed tax reforms is an end to…
Speeding in Wrong Direction
After massive flood damage and a near catastrophe at Oroville Dam in February, and in light of the future risk of drought and flooding, this much is clear: California’s critical water infrastructure is badly in need of repair. In fact, the state has almost $50 billion in unmet flood management…
Building A More Sustainable Economy One Neighborhood at a Time
Next year will mark the 25th anniversary of the L.A. riots. Though many of the issues that helped fan the flames of the unrest – poverty, unemployment and crime – still persist in the neighborhoods of South L.A. (and other parts of the region), there is a growing sense that change is coming. The question is – to whose benefit.