California Travel Tips
California News – What’s UP? Spending, Pecans, Equality, Taxes, Cancer
Published on: November 28, 2012
- Cyber Monday was the biggest online shopping day ever, jumping 17% from a year ago and totaling roughly $1.98 billion. Total holiday spending is expected to grow about 4% to $586.1 billion this Christmas season 2012 and the average shopper is will likely spend nearly $750, up $9 from about $741 last year.
- A new study on cancer found 4 regions in California with elevated (10-25% higher) incidences of breast cancer. Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens announced this week that she has breast cancer. She works within one of the regions.
- For those who opted out of the electric company smart meters and may be paying $10/month extra, Southern California Edison is seeking approval to raise the meter reader fee to $25/month.
- California pecan industry is back after near collapse. Acreage is expanding about 10% annually.
- Cities have been selected for Amgen Tour of California 2013 Bike Race which starts in Escondido. They include in race course order: Murrieta, Palm Springs, Palmdale, Santa Clarita, Santa Barbara, Avila Beach, San Jose, Livermore, Mt. Diablo, San Francisco–finishing in Santa Rosa.
- Greater Phoenix Economic Council plans to fly in as many as 100 California CEOs for complimentary stays and tours of the metropolitan area in an effort to get them to relocate companies to Arizona. Companies leaving California for another state can save between 20 and 40%.
- Long Beach is only 1 of 11 cities nationwide to receive a perfect score of 100 on the Municipal Equality Index (MEI), the first ever rating system of Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender (LGBT) inclusion for cities. The MEI is a project of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest Gay & Lesbian organization, in partnership with the Equality Federation and the Gay & Lesbian Victory Institute.
- Arcata, California’s prime pot-growing region, has formed an academic institute devoted to marijuana. The Humboldt Institute for Interdisciplinary Marijuana Research is located at Humboldt State University.
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