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Southern California’s Road Back

September 4, 2013/in

If the prospects for the United States remain relatively bright – despite two failed administrations – how about Southern California? Once a region that epitomized our country’s promise, the area […]

Rust Belt Chic And The Keys To Reviving The Great Lakes

August 30, 2013/in Demographics, The Economy, Urban Affairs

Appearing in: Forbes.com Over four decades, the Great Lakes states have been the sad sack of American geography. This perception has been reinforced by Detroit’s bankruptcy filing and the descent […]

America Hanging in There Better Than Rivals

August 26, 2013/in Demographics, The Economy

Appearing in: Orange County Register To paraphrase the great polemicist Thomas Paine, these are times that try the souls of optimists. The country is shuffling through a very weak recovery, […]

California Homes Require Real Reach

August 20, 2013/in California, Demographics, The Economy

Appearing in: Orange County Register In the 1950s and 1960s, Southern California was ground zero for the “American Dream” of owning a house. From tony Newport Beach and Bel-Air to […]

Young Tech Tycoons Pushing Left Coast Ahead Of East In Democratic Power Structure

August 14, 2013/in

Appearing in: Forbes There are two deep-blue regions that are critical to the Obama administration: the Northeast and the coastal region between San Jose and Seattle that truly deserves the […]

Entrepreneurs Turn Oligarchs

August 12, 2013/in Politics, The Economy

Appearing in: Orange County Register For a generation, most Americans, whatever their politics, have largely admired Silicon Valley as an exemplar of enlightened free-market capitalism. Yet, increasingly, the one-time folk […]

How Can We Be So Dense? Anti-Sprawl Policies Threaten America’s Future

August 9, 2013/in Demographics, Urban Affairs

Appearing in: Forbes.com Among university professors, government planners and mainstream pundits there is little doubt that the best city is the densest one. This notion is also supported by a […]

California’s Blue-on-Blue Battle

August 6, 2013/in California, Politics

Appearing in: Orange County Register Perhaps nothing more illustrates the evolving inner class conflict within the progressive political movement than the recent embrace of California as a role model for […]

Kotkin on MSNBC: Southern cities rank high in list of ‘aspirational hot-spots’

August 2, 2013/in

By: Joel Kotkin In: MSNBC Joel appeared on MSNBC’s NewsNation with Tamron Hall to discuss his latest piece in The Daily Beast. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and […]

America’s Engineering Hubs: The Cities With The Greatest Capacity For Innovation

July 31, 2013/in The Economy

Appearing in: Forbes.com America has always been a nation of tinkerers. Our Founding Fathers, notes author Alec Foege, were innovators in areas ranging from agriculture (George Washington, Thomas Jefferson) and […]