[Source: San Diego Business Journal] A study by Spectrum Location Solutions found that within the last seven years, 9,000 businesses left California in favor of other locations. San Diego rated No. 5 for the most losses; Los Angeles topped the list. The other counties with the highest number of disinvestments were Orange, Santa Clara, San Read More…
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Lawmakers urge report on growing bullet train costs
[Source: Los Angeles Times] The California high-speed rail authority bowed to pressure from California legislators and members of Congress late Tuesday and released a copy of a 2013 report showing a large estimated increase in the cost of building the initial segment of the bullet train project. The report, disclosed by the Times in a Read More…
Poverty inseparable from environmental sustainability
[Source: Desert News ] Member states of the United Nations unanimously agreed to a new poverty agenda last week, one that sets a 15-year time frame for a full eradication of extreme poverty. The previous poverty agenda — set in 2000 and expiring this year — was successful in halving the number of people in extreme Read More…