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![]() Blogging California's manufacturing and competitiveness » Regulatory uncertainty is the bane of investment Jack Stewart, Feb. 5, 2010 » Why not California #11 & #12 -- MiaSole and Facebook Gino DiCaro, Jan. 28, 2010 ![]() State news - Feb. 8 Effort underway to suspend California's global-warming law – No major California company has endorsed the initiative yet. But Gino DiCaro, a spokesman for the California Manufacturers and Technology Assn. said ... Margot Roosevelt in the L.A. Times Beverage industry douses tax on soft drinks – Reporting from Washington - Employing a broad-based lobbying effort, the soft drink industry has smothered a plan to tax sugared beverages -- a plan ... Tom Hamburger and Kim Geiger in the L.A. Times Industrial solvent linked to increased risk of Parkinson's disease (Feb. 7) – Trichloroethylene, or TCE, is a solvent that was once widely used in dry cleaning and to clean grease off metal parts, and it was once used as an ... Thomas H. Maugh II in the L.A. Times Commentary - Feb. 8 Jobs must be Legislature’s priority – Current California economic statistics are staggering – a 12.4 percent unemployment rate means more than 2 million people are out of work. But these ... Nathan Fletcher in the San Diego U-T The U.S. Needs an Industrial Policy – Much is being said about the terrible financial returns and lack of economic growth in the "lost" decade that began the 21st century. Why should ... John Hofmeister in the Wall Street Journal National news - Feb. 8 Unemployment Rate in U.S. Falls to 9.7%; Factory Payrolls Grow (Feb. 6) – The unemployment rate in the U.S. unexpectedly dropped to 9.7 percent in January and manufacturers added to payrolls for the first time in three ... Timothy R. Homan in the Bloomberg News Complete coverage |