5 results for "Jock O'Connell"
Viewpoints: On the eve of Brown’s trip to China: Revaluing California’s export trade
Saturday, April 6, 2013 at 12:00 AMLast year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Foreign Trade Division, California's merchandise export trade was valued at somewhere between $124.6 billion and $164.4 billion. It was either up 1.8 percent over the preceding year or dow...
The Conversation: Bringing back jobs from abroad?
Sunday, February 3, 2013 at 12:00 AMJanuary is usually an altogether dreary time to be in London. But it was in that month 160 years ago that an inventive American named Samuel Colt, a genuine Connecticut Yankee, opened a factory in the capital of Queen Victoria's empire to ma...
Viewpoints: How port strike was twisted into '$1 billion a day'
Sunday, December 9, 2012 at 12:00 AMFor eight days until this past Wednesday, members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union were on strike at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Their action effectively hobbled operations at the two ports, which sit adjacent to...
The Conversation: Is it sunset for state's seaports?
Sunday, January 29, 2012 at 12:00 AMYou'll likely be hearing a lot of talk about the Panama Canal over the next couple of years.
Viewpoints: Here comes our stuff... but how it gets to the dock and beyond should concern Californians
Sunday, December 4, 2011 at 12:00 AMHow else but a belief in magic would explain why we Californians have been so relentlessly cavalier these past few decades about maintaining a transportation infrastructure that, in many other parts of the world, would be treated as an absolutel...
