Watch Mayor Newsom's YouTube Update: Jan 8, 2010
The Los Angeles Times: Washington fires back at Schwarzenegger
Commercial Real Estate
- CRE: "Almost FREE"
- The commercial real estate trainwreck is a thing of the past? Not really.
- Fitch: U.S. CMBS delinquencies up; peak not until 2012.
- Avalos keeps budget chair post.
- BART to eliminate positions, divert stimulus funds to help balance budget.
- Supes support mayor paying certain security-detail costs.
- Newsom to give State of The City on Wednesday.
- State to weigh BART police reform.
- Ken Garcia: Academy finally in hot water for surrealist logic.
- Willie Brown's weekly column can be found here.
- Matier & Ross' latest column can be found here.
- New Transbay Transit Center Project website can be found here.
- Dennis Herrera, now in his third term as city attorney, could be a contender in San Francisco’s next mayoral race.
- Hospital development in danger of flat-lining.
- Examiner Editorial: City benefits and pensions bleed budget dry.
- Contra Costa retirement board reviewing pension policies.
- Public transit cuts will make Bay Area economic recovery difficult.
- First wave of MTA layoffs begins.
Marin/San Mateo/Sonoma
- The Sausalito City Council will meet Tuesday to review the city's laws governing formula retail uses.
- Marin's economy in 2010: Year of the comeback.
- City fixes hotel tax snafu.
California
- Tom Campbell speaks -- sort of -- about to switch to Senate race
- Schwarzenegger's job programs same old stuff.
- Ten years later, ratepayers still paying for the energy crisis.
- High-speed rail plan flawed, says Legislature's financial analyst.
- Forbes: California Flailin'
- Soaring pension costs: should workers pay more?
- Calbuzz: How climate change law shapes the gov race.
- The worst budget mess ever.
- Fiorina loans her U.S. Senate campaign $2.5 million.
- Poizner says the polls don’t mean anything yet.
- Democratic Governor's Association to launch independent expenditure for Jerry Brown
The Economy
- Weekly retail sales: Post-holiday blues.
- Blaming things not named Greenspan for the great recession.
- Near record low job openings in November.
- Stimulus watch: Unemployment unchanged by projects.
- Small US business owners end 2009 downbeat.
- The U.S. economy continues to recover at a painfully slow pace.
- Now see the real state of collapsing state tax revenues.
Energy & Environment
- California ties cash to energy.
- CA Dems cool to suspension of global warming regulations.
- Environmental groups try to block parts of California's green building code.
- You can thank Arthur Rosenfeld for energy savings.
- US awards 2.3 billion dollars for 'green jobs'.
General
- Federal Reserve earned $45 billion in 2009.
- The decline of Central Bank power.
- White House opens door to money talks with financially strapped states.
- Schwarzenegger faces 'uphill battle' getting tort reforms.
- The revenge of mercantilism.
- Why is American food so cheap?
- The Presidio and the evolution of the Green MBA.
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