I just had to comment about Bob Gaglione's editorial ("A look at the number of elected officials who govern San Diegans," The Daily Transcript, March 16).

"Terriers" is our new Twentieth Century TV series, which recently finished shooting its 12 episodes, including the pilot. The show is going to air in the fall line-up for the FX Channel. I wanted to provide some insight on what it takes to get a show like this to work in San Diego.

In recent years the interest in high quality audio recording, digitized music, and the miniaturization of electronics has been the perfect storm for creating super high quality pocket recorders.

Recommendations are out from the Commission on the 21st Century Economy on how to fix California's broken system of revenue collection. Sadly, though not surprisingly, our elected leaders are lining up to declare the recommendations "dead on arrival."

San Diego County is home to more than 240,000 veterans and today on Veterans Day we remember each one of them is owed a debt of honor that can never be fully repaid. We should never forget that freedom isn't free.

There are troubling signs that while the economy is rebounding, we may be facing a jobless recovery. Last week, the presidents of the Federal Reserve Banks of San Francisco and Atlanta each suggested that unemployment will persist well into 2010. A recent public opinion poll by Hofsta University found that three out of four suburbanites had either themselves or knew someone who had lost their job during the recession. The Golden State is seeing unemployment higher than it has been in 26 years and almost every forecaster believes it will go higher. While some of the locally-tracked leading economic indicators are positive, help wanted ads and jobless claims continue to point downward.

We are in a time of national worry about deficits and oversized government. However, in San Diego, our leaders think we need a bigger city hall and a larger deficit.

Hidden deep in the more than 2,300 pages of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is a provision that could prove to be a gold mine for certain people who work in the financial industry.

For two days, beginning June 30, 2010, the inaugural "Charged 2020 The Global Energy Storage Forum" was held at the University of San Diego. The forum was focused on how to effectuate necessary energy storage on the electrical grid and to develop businesses around that and related concepts.

At our firm, I have the privilege of working with incredible family business founders who have worked hard to build wonderfully profitable businesses and create a financial legacy for their families.

As Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer last spring signed her state's landmark bill cracking down on illegal immigration, she listed crime as her biggest reason.

The Daily Transcript has once again given Ron Carrico space for his annual "why we shouldn't subsidize billionaire sports owners" column. Mr. Carrico doesn't say anything new this time around; his argument is both familiar and simplistic.

Here is a new old twist to New Year's goal setting. It's a koan of sorts. How do we set goals when there is no future?

California has always been synonymous with the American Dream. "Go west, young man, go west," they said, and people did. From the Gold Rush until today, California has been the place people aspired to achieve their dreams. We have been the global center of innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship.

The recent liquidity crisis in the euro zone continues to shake up the global economy. Even though the Greek sovereign debt crunch also threatens Spain and Portugal economies and drives down the euro currency rate, global financial pundits believe the European Community should stay the course.

You're at a seminar.

It is predictable. Nearly every time someone wants to explain a difficult or unpopular situation, some variation of INMF is invoked: "It's not my fault."

In today's wireless environment, BlackBerrys, iPhones and other handheld devices increasingly provide employees with round-the-clock access to e-mail from remote locations. While wireless gadgets allow us to maximize productivity in competitive economic times, they may also give rise to overtime, minimum wage and other wage payment claims.

The whole point behind a corporation is to create a place where individuals can achieve collectively what they cannot accomplish by working alone. And, in a good and positive environment, where everyone is treated as a corporate citizen, managers and employees can do great things together.

It's conventional wisdom these days: Many people are frustrated, even angry, with government and other major sectors of society.

When I moved to California in 1978, I was stunned by the beauty and breadth of opportunity here, the same allure that has drawn millions of Americans and immigrants over the decades to start life anew in the Golden State.

Saturday morning, April 10, 2010 I attended a memorial services at Eastlake High School for a fallen hero of the War in Iraq.

As 100 million gallons of crude flowed into the Gulf of Mexico, the echoes of "Drill, baby, drill" temporarily faded but are still part of a national tendency that is one of our greatest challenges for a sustainable future.

You know when a politician starts a sentence with "frankly," he's about to lie to your face. The same principle applies to campaign finance legislation dubbed the "DISCLOSE Act." The voter's instinctive reaction should be: What are they trying to hide now? Drafted out of public view with left-wing lobbyists and rammed through Congress after bypassing committee hearings, this bum bill would have been better named the CLOSEDDOOR Act.

As a Christian I have a high level of sensitivity toward Jews, of a never-ending sense to be protective of their religion -- and to remember their special place in history.

Jeremy Jackson, a marine ecologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, recalls leading an investigation into the effects of two oil spills off the Panamanian coast in the late 1980s.

As the distinction between these two industries continues to fade, it was certainly not surprising to see video games increase their presence at last week's international Comic-Con.

For about 100 years, San Diego has been known as a Navy town. And that, of course, is a truism. On the other hand, it is also a college town. Not like Boston, of course, because we don't have 34 colleges and universities in our metropolitan area, but we do have an enviable selection of higher quality educational institutions. Altogether, these educational institutions have more than 100,000 students.

San Diegans have a lot to be thankful for at this time of year. Today, I am pleased to give credit to our governor and state legislators for accomplishing a long-awaited and vital task -- passing a comprehensive water package to reform and rebuild California's water system. I believe this will be an instrumental component of California's economic revival.

On a recent trip to Sacramento, Calif., after conducting a seminar, I visited Old Sacramento. Just west of the downtown area, this is a wonderful rendition of what an Old West town must have looked like a long time ago.

I spend a lot of time comparing California's tax and regulatory climate with other states. The reason is simple -- people are reluctant to leave a country (especially the United States), but they WILL leave a state. And so will businesses.

Two of three positive happenings in San Diego in June were great "yes" vote actions by the San Diego City Council and the other a 69 percent "no" vote on Prop H in Coronado where a "yes" vote would have supported the continuation of a plan to build a tunnel under Fourth Street.

Much of what we know just ain't so. After years of proselytizing by politicians, planners and protagonists, many of us are dumbstruck upon learning that most people really do want to live in the suburbs, that Smart Growth a.k.a. "Congestifying" is more expensive than "sprawl" and that buses are less "green" and energy efficient than automobiles.

As the use of electronic systems to communicate become more common, employers must more frequently deal with how to appropriately monitor and ensure compliance with their electronic communications policies in the workplace.

The value of "leading" economic indicators varies, some proving more potent than others. For example, the University of San Diego has a decent index that it has tracked over the years to predict the economic cycles within our region. And the unemployment index is a very reliable predictor of labor cost movement. But the national purchasing managers' predictions of demand are often completely off the mark in anticipating major movements up or down in economic activity. The oil futures index did not accurately predict the dramatic rise and then fall of oil prices between 2008 and 2009. I believe I've found a powerful metric that correlates highly to economic cycling.

"The Charles C. Dail Concourse"

On Wednesday, Aug. 4, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors will be asked to approve legislation that will literally open the doors of our region's wineries to the public.

Many companies are sitting on the sidelines, observing the social media sensation. Unsure if social media makes sense for them, businesses may be waiting for proof that social media really works. Others may be just confused as to where to begin.

When I arrived in London on April 12, the plan was to stay for six days.

Last week my sister Michele, who is a client, sent me something she had seen from The Wall Street Journal. Brett Arends wrote the article, and while I did not catch its title, the tone of the article was the calming phrases that brokers use and that you hear over and over again.