Post-Nagin, New Orleans Is On Way To Becoming A Model City

Appearing in: Forbes Last week’s conviction of former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on 20 charges of bribery and fraud marks the end of a tumultuous era in the city’s history, and […]

Sustaining Prosperity: A Long Term Vision for the New Orleans Region

Appearing in: Greater New Orleans, Inc. This is the executive summary from a new report Sustaining Prosperity: A Long Term Vision for the New Orleans Region, authored by Joel Kotkin […]

Southern California has Aging Issues

Appearing in: Orange County Register Back in the 1960s, and for well into the 1980s, California stood at the cutting edge of youth culture, the place where trends started and […]

The U.S. Middle Class Is Turning Proletarian

Appearing in: Forbes The biggest issue facing the American economy, and our political system, is the gradual descent of the middle class into proletarian status. This process, which has been […]

Possible Sign of Trouble for Los Angeles

Appearing in: Orange County Register A quarter century ago, the Los Angeles-Orange County area seemed on the verge of joining the first tier of global cities. As late as 2009, […]

America’s Glass Half-empty, or Half-full?

Appearing in: Orange County Register The stock market is high, real estate prices have resurged, even the unemployment rate is dropping, yet Americans still feel pretty down about the future. […]

Blue-Collar Hot Spots: The Cities Creating The Most High-Paying Working-Class Jobs

Appearing in: Forbes It’s a common notion nowadays that American blue-collar workers are doomed to live out their lives on the low-paid margins of the economy. They’ve been described as […]

Selfies Replace Focus on Big Picture

Appearing in: Orange County Register California’s economy may be on the mend, but prospects for continued growth are severely constrained by the increasing obsolescence of the state’s basic infrastructure. Once […]

California’s Potholed Road to Recovery

Appearing in: Orange County Register California’s economy may be on the mend, but prospects for continued growth are severely constrained by the increasing obsolescence of the state’s basic infrastructure. Once […]

Talking About the Future of LA on ABC Radio

By: KABC Radio Los Angeles On: McIntyre In The Morning Joel joins host Doug McIntyre to discuss the findings of the Los Angeles 2020 Commission’s recent report. Click the Play […]