New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson has been traveling in California with
a business group to promote tourism and economic development in New Mexico.
The governor's office said that Richardson joined Tourism Secretary Mike
Cerletti and the New Mexico Amigos, a private organization of business
leaders, on a trip that included stops in Palm Desert and Los Angeles. The
New Mexicans will meet with California businesses. 

                                        

Apparently as a part of the trip, the group toured a facility at the Mojave
Air and Space Port north of Los Angeles where Virgin Galactic is testing a
space tourism rocket. Sir Richard Branson's space tourism venture has
committed to using a spaceport under construction in southern New Mexico.
Officials from the Mojave Air and Space Port are upset and rightly so.  Nearly
70 space tourism companies have been pioneered in this area and New
Mexico is now coming in and trying to recruit them away.  Apparently this
region needs some economic assistance in the way of incentives.  Meanwhile -

From Expansion Magazine:
“Our corporate headquarters were in Minneapolis-St. Paul, and we thought that
we needed to be in Los Angeles in order to grow this business,” says Stan
Hubbard, chairman and CEO of ReelzChannel, a TV network that broadcasts shows
about movies. “We learned very quickly that California is not an easy place
to do business. It is very expensive, with high taxes and high real estate costs.
And the employment law there is stacked against the employer from the instant
you hire an employee.”  

 

Tim Johnson
www.CaliforniaBusinessMinute.com