Posts Tagged: circulation

California grapples with port congestion, supply chain kinks

Stacked shipping containers awaiting distribution at the Port of Los Angeles. (Photo: Angel DiBilio, via Shutterstock)

by SETH SANDRONSKY posted 02.04.2022

The pandemic economy has catalyzed changes for California businesses and consumers. Take the impacts of the state’s system of ports that connect with the movement of goods to 40 million residents. 

Ballot admission price: $48 million

A California ballot box. (Photo illustration, Hafakot, via Shutterstock)

by DOROTHY MILLS-GREGG posted 10.06.2016

It’s like a poker game: If you want to play, you have to ante up. And this year, the ante for Nov. 8 was nearly $48 million. That’s how much the rival interests for an array of initiatives paid to get on the ballot. That’s not money spent on the merits of the initiatives. It’s the money spent simply to get the propositions before the public.