The Raiders thought they finally found a place to play next season, only to find out they're not wanted in San Francisco. Not by the mayor, and certainly not by the team that still calls itself the San Francisco 49ers — even while it plays its games in a stadium...
On High-Speed Rail, Will the Real Gov. Newsom Please Stand Up?
Gavin Newsom has said more than once that he wants California's high-speed rail project completed between the San Joaquin and Silicon valleys. "It's not a train to nowhere," Newsom told George Skelton of the Los Angeles Times in October. "It's insulting to suggest the Central Valley is nowhere. This is...
Will Silicon Valley's New Company Towns Boom or Bust?
Willow Village is a community planned for a 59-acre site in California’s Silicon Valley, between Menlo Park and East Palo Alto. It will have housing, offices, a grocery store, a pharmacy, and its developers say, maybe even its own cultural center. There’s one notable thing about Willow Village that makes...
Silicon Valley Billionaire Ellison Backs Nunes' Reelection Bid
The Daily Beast reports that top Oracle executives have given so much money to Rep. Devin Nunes' reelection campaign that some contributions had to be returned. In a story headlined "The Silicon Valley Giant Bankrolling Devin Nunes," reporter Lachlan Markay details contributions from five Oracle executives totaling nearly $35,000. "What...
Silicon Valley Billionaire Ellison Backs Nunes' Reelection Bid
The Daily Beast reports that top Oracle executives have given so much money to Rep. Devin Nunes' reelection campaign that some contributions had to be returned. In a story headlined "The Silicon Valley Giant Bankrolling Devin Nunes," reporter Lachlan Markay details contributions from five Oracle executives totaling nearly $35,000. "What...
How Talented Kids From Low-Income Families Become 'Lost Einsteins'
Innovation is widely viewed as the engine of economic growth. To maximize innovation and growth, all of our brightest youth should have the opportunity to become inventors. But a study we recently conducted, jointly with Neviana Petkova of the U.S. Treasury, paints a very different picture. We found that a...
How Talented Kids From Low-Income Families Become 'Lost Einsteins'
Innovation is widely viewed as the engine of economic growth. To maximize innovation and growth, all of our brightest youth should have the opportunity to become inventors. But a study we recently conducted, jointly with Neviana Petkova of the U.S. Treasury, paints a very different picture. We found that a...