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The decisions by Campbell Soup Co. and Comcast Corp. to eliminate hundreds of California jobs rekindled the debate about the state's business climate – and forced Gov. Jerry Brown and others to leap to the state's defense. The announcements put state officials in familiar yet uncomfortable territory, having to explain why an employer was closing shop in California. Never mind that both companies said the business climate didn't drive their decisions. Even though California's job growth surpasses the U.S. average, the state remains susceptible to the charge that it's an inhospitable land of high taxes and red tape. Friday brought...

Elegy for a Profession A song of the discarded Hello, Corporate America. Do you know us? Do you remember? We are I/T. We are the men and women who helped you build the 21st century. We flocked to the new technologies, taught ourselves the skills we needed when colleges could not, and forged the tools you asked for. We signed up willingly, knowing that of all professions, ours was the one where today’s knowledge would be tomorrow’s obsolescence, where last week’s skill is worthless now, and where falling out of touch with progress is career suicide. And we knew, some...