And other improvements. Well talk with the head of the San Francisco bicycle coalition. Plus, california takes the first step to grant special protection to the oceans top predator. Coming up next. Good evening, and welcome to this week in northern california. Im scott shafer. Well, we hoped wed be talking about this weeks super bowl victory parade for the San Francisco 49ers, but it didnt quite work out that way. The good news, well, we still have plenty to delve into. Joining me on our news panel tonight are paul rogers, San Jose Mercury news environment writer. Peter hecht, Sacramento Bee reporter and author of weed land due out later this year from university of california press. And kara swisher, editor of all things digital. Well, Silicon Valleys Economic Growth is outpacing the rest of the state in terms of jobs and per capita income. Posting some of the highest numbers since the recession. That according to a Study Released today at the annual state of the valley conference in
Excel in, and, you know, theres been a lot of job growth in the area, a lot of innovation. Some of the stocks are up, not all of them. Its a good time right now especially in an economy that has issued all over the place. One of the things that came out in the state of the valley report is San Francisco has grown as a tech hub and its now really san jose, San Francisco and everything in between is really the tech center. Talk more about that. How did that happen . Did it happen overnight . Well, some of the lovely ed lee tax cuts are nice. For twitter and things like that. Theres a certain class of people in these new company like twitter, like zingo, some of the others, many, many, others that want to live in a city, live in a urban environment. Dont want to get on a google bus and drive down 101 every day. Google and others want to serve the population of their employees. Its food to have opportunities in both places. So this urban, i call them urban hipsters essentially want to stay
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