January 26, 2012 | New York Times

High-tech migrants to Silicon Valley, in their 20s and fresh out of college, drawn by a surge in start-ups and investment money that in the last year and a half have created more jobs than companies can fill, and are eager to help shape the technology that infuses their lives.

January 28, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

Gov. Jerry Brown pledges to cut spiraling costs, but key parts of his rollback plan apply mainly to future workers. Activists want quicker action. McGreevy shares some of the exaggerated payout im the his story below.

January 29, 2012 | New York Times

In the hunt for innovation, that elusive path to economic growth and corporate prosperity, try a little jazz as an inspirational metaphor. That’s the message that John Kao, an innovation adviser to corporations and governments was to deliver in a performance and talk on Saturday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Jazz, Mr. Kao says, demonstrates some of the tensions in innovation.

January 29, 2012 | Seattle Times

There's no inevitability about Asia maintaining dominance. America until very recently dominated high-tech manufacturing jobs but allowed them to slip away because of purblind policies. Most nominally American companies have sent their high-tech manufacturing overseas in recent years, further limiting the possibilities of economic mobility of hard-pressed Americans.