As COVID-19 (coronavirus) continues to create financial mayhem to small business and individuals, financial institutions are offering special assistance to help mitigate the hardship. We realize there is a lot of information coming at businesses right now: this is just a sampling of resources. We will update this post as new information becomes available. At [...]
CVEP’s staff is now beginning our second week of sheltering in place. As the television reports of the growth of the virus is like a light bulb to a moth, there are permanent lessons we are learning from this experience. We continue to see how COVID-19 will change our lives for the long term. The [...]
Updated March 20, 2020: Today, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin Tweeted: “At @realDonaldTrump’s direction, we are moving Tax Day from April 15 to July 15. All taxpayers and businesses will have this additional time to file and make payments without interest or penalties". Like so many other things in our world right now, resources are changing [...]
CVEP is diligently monitoring the responses by the United States and California governments to assist both people and businesses. Our goal is to communicate with the Coachella Valley's business community about what can be done within the framework of passed legislation to mitigate the negative impacts of the COVID-19 threat. To date there have been [...]
I found no golf balls today. On most days when the March weather in the Coachella Valley is sunny, I find about 2 balls for every mile I walk. Today, I walked five miles and found no golf balls. I have been walking or running this route for the last seven years and there has [...]
Event Planning 101 The Coachella Valley has never lacked for an event to attend. Business, social, philanthropic – the choices are ample. Along with many others, I have been a veteran attendee. I have also done a great deal of event planning behind the scenes. Here are some some basic event planning "dos" I have [...]
As a child in rural Kentucky it was common for all of the people who lived in our neighborhood to know and like one another. On the rare occasion that there were personal differences, they were set aside for activities that aided the common good. One of those common-good activities was pitching in to plant, [...]
In the fall of 1996, I was selected and sworn onto my first jury. It was a civil case in Ventura County: a dispute between neighbors over a home improvement project's impact. We listened for a week and deliberated for a couple of days, only to be told that the case was settled. They thanked [...]
I recently overheard a young professional discussing the high cost of living. He asked his colleague how it would ever be possible to save enough money to make a down payment on a house. The young man's spending habits were observed over the course of a few hours. During that time, he consumed a bottle [...]
CVEP has produced two videos that show renderings of what can happen in the Coachella Valley by the year 2050. In these videos, our concentration has been on traditional economic development needs. These needs include a comprehensive public university, an intermodal trade hub, state-of-the-art bandwidth, a fully developed Salton Sea, and entrepreneurship. These are all [...]
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