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Pressures mount on California ports

Giant crane handles a ship's cargo at the Port of Long Beach. (Photo:

by GREG LUCAS posted 11.21.2013

From Humboldt Bay in the north to San Diego in the south, California’s 11 ports generate more than $40 billion in annual economic activity. The Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles provide most of it — together, they represent the nation’s largest cargo container port and the world’s sixth busiest harbor. But new pressures, including a revamped Panama Canal, are clouding California’s picture. (Photo: Port of Long Beach)

The Affordable Care Act not only drastically changes how health care is delivered but sharply alters the underpinnings of California’s economy. To get a deeper sense of health care reform’s impact on the Golden State, Capitol Weekly talked to Micah Weinberg, PhD, a senior policy advisor at the Bay Area Council and CEO of Healthy Systems Project, a health care consulting firm based in Sacramento.

Californians can take pride today in the launch of the first California brand marketing campaign to directly target Chinese consumers.

The Visit California announcement in China was part of the governor’s continuing Trade and Investment Mission.  We also named the Golden State’s first tourism ambassador from Mainland China, model-actress Gao Yuanyuan.

California has

The California economy is on the mend, and the state’s economic outlook is positive.  But we still have a long way to go to ensure that recovery takes hold in every community throughout the state.

This is especially true in rural and urban low-income neighborhoods, often communities of color, which continually struggle with double

With California continuing to face one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation, citizen energy users were disappointed to read Susan Frank’s column in which she failed to offer any real solutions but focused almost exclusively on attacking California’s oil and gas industry.

Instead of demonizing people, why not have a more constructive

Recently California’s clean energy and pollution law, AB 32, observed its first auction of pollution permits. Much has been said about the impact of this auction on California’s economy, with competing interests making differing claims.

As economists and academics, we believe the auction and AB 32’s carbon market will help California meet its environmental