Author Archives: Jim Ross
-->Lost at the ballot box, lost at the City Council
Last night the Alameda City Council voted to not extend SunCal’s exclusive right to Alameda Point. This is the end result of an insular and bullying community outreach style.
Suncal’s style can be seen in the meeting itself, threatening a lawsuit if the results did not turnout its… >> More Updates
Get Oregon Rolling
This commercial we produced for Bill Bradbury in Oregon started running today.
Bill has MS and has some difficulty walking, so we took the Segway he uses to get around, and used it as a metaphor for finding a solutions to problems.
Small Business California Survey Indicates Economic Recovery Being Slowed By Lack of Small Business Purchases and Access to Capital
A survey conducted annually by Small Business California shows that lack of access to capital and delayed purchases are slowing the economic recovery in California.
Of the 2,721 small businesses that responded to the survey, 78% said they were “delaying purchases or other expenditures” to control costs… >> More Updates
Small Business Survey
Since 2004, we have worked with Small Business California on their annual survey. If you own a small business we would like to get your thoughts and opinions.
Times Change
The finger pointing in the Massachusetts Senate Race began over the weekend and will continue for the next few weeks. No matter the outcome. Democrats have seen a change in the electorate this year but we been slow to respond. In 2006 and 2008 the strategy for electoral success was… >> More Updates
Implement Proposition I
Melissa Griffin reports, that the study on streamlining City government mandated by Proposition I, which passed in November of 2007, has not been completed or even started. Our firm ran the campaign to pass Proposition I to create the Office of Small Business and the study that they are… >> More Updates
Stories of the decade in Oregon
The Oregonian’s Political reporter, Jeff Mapes is running down his top 10 political stories of the decade and today he highlights Governor Kulongoski’s reelection.
Kulongoski’s Rebound: At the beginning of 2006, you could get decent odds betting against Kulongoski’s reelection. Kitzhaber was thinking of running again. The unions,… >> More Updates
The surf is not up
In 1995, I interviewed for a job with the California State Senate’s Democratic Caucus. After the 1994 mid-term elections the California State Senate was the only state legislative body controlled by the Democratic Party west of the Mississippi River.
Many pundits and analysts are saying 2010 will be like… >> More Updates
A community based movement
Since March of this year, we have been working with a citizen’s group in Alameda to stop a fundamentally flawed and unfair ballot measure in their community. This measure would give complete control of Alameda Point to a developer, while sticking the community with most of the bill for… >> More Updates
More stadium politics
For those of you who follow this blog, you know I enjoy the politics that surrounds sports stadiums. So I could not let the possibility of a new arena being built in San Francisco for the Golden State Warriors pass without comment.
First this speaks to the inability… >> More Updates