We've been discussing how the United States can create jobs here on the Opinion Shop blog and on the opinion pages of The Chronicle, and that theme will continue.

By Suzanne Bohan, Contra Costa Times

At a Livermore community college on Monday, Rep. John Garamendi, D-Walnut Grove, detailed a bill he's introducing today that would establish a technology transfer center at Lawrence Livermore and Sandia/California national laboratories. Such a center would help ease the transfer of research from the national labs to the private sector.

Students at public universities in California are planning a series of demonstrations across the state protesting tuition hikes today. While a few isolated incidents in recent weeks have provided fodder for some in the media to dismiss their concerns, the students' cause is incredibly important. If we continue to yearly raise tuition in California far beyond inflation, we threaten to derail all that has enabled my home state to prosper in decades past.