Go East, young man? Californians look for the exit

...it is the fourth consecutive year that more residents decamped from California for other states than arrived here from within the U.S.

A losing streak that long hasn't happened in California since the recession of the early 1990s, when departures outstripped arrivals from other states by 362,000 in 1994 alone.

In part because of the boom in population in other Western states, California could lose a congressional seat for the first time in its history.

Why are so many looking for an exit?

Among other things: California's unemployment rate hit 8.4 percent in November, the third-highest in the nation, and it is expected to get worse. A record 236,000 foreclosures are projected for 2008, more than the prior nine years combined, according to research firm MDA DataQuick. Personal income was about flat last year.

Again: It's been almost four years--where's the evidence that Arnold's global warming scheme is a success?

DATE: June 9, 2005

BACKGROUND: Vowing to make his state a "leader in the fight against global warming," California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has unveiled a plan certain to warm the hearts of green activists and to send chills down the spines of ordinary hard-working people. Under an executive order signed by the governor on June 1, California is to reduce its greenhouse-gas emissions to 2000 levels by 2010, or by 11 percent below what they would be without the governor's action.

TEN SECOND RESPONSE: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's latest green initiative is likely to make California even more unfriendly to business and new jobs.