In the early 1990s, a group of concerned Californians (including William R. Hewlett) decided that there should be a policy research institution dedicated to providing both wise counsel and expertise on the issues and events that were of great concern to the residents of the state. With a sizable gift of $70 million, the Public Policy Institute of California was formally created in 1994, and since...

You may know about the Bay area, the sprawling greater Los Angeles area, but did know that there's a "Third California"? This timely and intriguing paper offered by the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy group discusses this region, which encompasses almost all of the state's fast-growing regions, including the suburbs around Sacramento to the urban aggregation that is Riverside-San...

The Rise of the Third Coast: The Gulf's Region's Ascendancy in U.S. http://blogs.forbes.com/joelkotkin/2011/06/23/the-rise-of-the-third-coast-the-gulf-regions-ascendancy-in-u-s/ California homicides decline to lowest rate in 45 years http://losangelescrimereport.com/california-homicides-decline-to-lowest-rate-in-45-years Huntington-USC Institute on California and the...