scholarly journals From Hopelessness to Expectation: An Interview with Christopher Cabaldon, Mayor of West Sacramento

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Monika Jansen
Keyword(s):  
Capital City ◽  
State University ◽  
Minor League Baseball ◽  
Residential Neighborhood ◽  
Minor League ◽  
Master Of Public Policy ◽  
Baseball Team ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Us Census ◽  
The City

Christopher Cabaldon is the mayor of West Sacramento, a small town just over the river from California’s capital city, Sacramento. Mayor Cabaldon received his Master of Public Policy and Administration (MPPA) in 1994 as part of the inaugural class of the program at California State University, Sacramento. He first became mayor of West Sacramento in 1998, and he was the first mayor directly elected by the citizens of West Sacramento in 2004.West Sacramento is growing rapidly. Since 2000, the population has increased by over 50 percent, nearly reaching 50,000 at the time of the 2010 US Census. Changes in West Sacramento have come from the development of Southport, a new master-planned residential neighborhood on the south side of the city, as well as infill development in the center of town and in established neighborhoods. Retail has also moved into West Sacramento where there previously had been very little, anchored by Ikea and Target. In 2000, the River Cats, a minor league baseball team, came to town and moved into a new stadium in West Sacramento.On March 13, Mayor Cabaldon spoke with Monika Jansen of Policy Perspectives over the phone to discuss his MPPA, executive leadership and democracy at the city level, his TEDx Talk from 2014, and his vision for West Sacramento.

The Tallahassee BeanCounters: A Problem-Based Learning Case in Forensic Auditing

2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cindy Durtschi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Impact ◽  
Problem Based Learning ◽  
Information Use ◽  
Minor League Baseball ◽  
Minor League ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Baseball Team ◽  
A Minor

You are auditing the books of the Tallahassee BeanCounters (TBC), a minor league baseball team in Tallahassee, Florida. During your audit the team's owner, Franklin Kennedy, approaches you and offers an additional fee if you will quietly investigate the possibility of fraud within the firm. Mr. Kennedy reports that he received an anonymous tip and, based on that information, believes that someone within the firm could be perpetrating fraud. Your task is to use the information given here (the financial books and back-up documents) as a starting point for your investigation. From that starting point, use creativity and investigative skills to determine what other information you need. After obtaining requested information, use all the material you have gathered to determine whether fraud was committed. To completely solve a fraud, you must show the following: who committed the fraud, how it was committed, that it was intentional (not error), the economic impact of the fraud, and that it was your suspect who gained financially from the fraud.

Increasing Baseball Revenue from the Female Market

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-91
Author(s):  
Mark Dodds ◽  
Larry DeGaris ◽  
Alan L. Morse ◽  
Luisa Velez-Colon ◽  
David Perricone
Keyword(s):  
Marketing Research ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Target Audience ◽  
Marketing Plan ◽  
Target Market ◽  
Minor League Baseball ◽  
Minor League ◽  
Gender Similarities ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Baseball Fans

Claire Monroe was challenged to increase a minor league baseball team’s revenue and was in charge of developing a marketing plan to target female baseball fans. This would be a new target market for the team. The increasing female fan base can create revenue for baseball franchises through ticket, merchandise, and concession sales, as well as connecting with sponsors who specifically target female customers. Although there are many gender similarities in regards to fan avidity, there are important differences between the sexes in terms of motivation, media, and merchandise needs. Claire must research the target audience, analyze marketing research data, and make recommendations to increase female attendance to have those women spend more money on baseball-related items.

Forecasting the Long-Term Viability of an Enterprise: The Case of a Minor League Baseball Franchise

2006 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Thomas Yokum ◽  
Juan J. Gonzalez ◽  
Tom Badgett
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Extended Period ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Minor League Baseball ◽  
Minor League ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Diffusion Curves

We are interested in forecasting or predicting the long-term viability of a minor league baseball team. The research question is whether this minor league team will be successful in attracting attendance over an extended period of time. An important financial issue is if the team is predicted to fail, then exactly how long will it last? A variety of methods are used in a step-by-step procedure to evaluate this viability. We first test whether attendance is evolving or stable through a unit root test, a test of market persistence. We then use the Bass model to assess whether the projected product life cycle is turning up or down. The Gompertz and logistic (Pearl) diffusion curves are next applied to home stand data of various lengths in order to make forecasts of an eventual dissolution point at which the team would financially collapse. Market saturation is not estimated, but set at the stadium capacity. Forecasting principles involving diffusion models are implemented. Analogies are used as a complementary forecasting technique to assess whether there is long-term potential for survival. Finally, logistic regression on cross-sectional data is used to supplement the forecasts. The results of the triangulation of diffusion curves, analogies, and logistic regression predict a decline in the minor league team’s ability to capture attendance.

“The Transparency of Democracy”: The Production of Washington’s Nationals Park as a Late Capitalist Space

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 327-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael T. Friedman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
The United States ◽  
City Government ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
The Us ◽  
Baseball Team ◽  
The City

Following the trend of cities throughout the United States subsidizing new baseball stadiums within their economic redevelopment strategies, in 2005, the city government of Washington, D.C. agreed to subsidize the construction of Nationals Park for the use of the Washington Nationals baseball team. In its design of the stadium, HOK Sport architects sought to represent the “transparency of democracy” as they were inspired by the democratic image and iconography of the US Capital city. Using a perspective based in Lefebvre’s (1991b) production of space, I explore the power relations produced and reproduced within spatial and cultural production. I argue that instead of creating an inclusive space, architects designed a space that exemplifies the late capitalist moment in its focus on consumption, social control, and aesthetic production. Nationals Park, thus, excludes people by class, privileges visitors over residents, and provides an unrealistic view of the city that marginalizes less powerful groups.

A Minor Apocalypse

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Blobaum
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Fertility Rates ◽  
World War ◽  
European Cities ◽  
Disease Mortality ◽  
The First World War ◽  
A Minor ◽  
The City ◽  
First World

This concluding chapter begins with an attempt to capture Warsaw in November 1918 in imagery that is in stark contrast with the standard narrative of the city as the scene of recovered Polish statehood. This imagery will be drawn from scenes set in cold and unlit streets that featured ubiquitous begging, long lines for foul-tasting “bread,” riots and the looting of public stores, everyday theft and banditry, widespread prostitution, and mounting incidents of personal, intercommunal, and political violence. The chapter then evaluates the “minor apocalypse” that occurred in Warsaw during the First World War by looking more precisely at the prevalence of certain kinds of disease, mortality and fertility rates, and the war's larger demographic consequences, and by comparing these data with those obtained for other European cities. Ultimately, this evaluation provides a better understanding of the problems confronting the establishment and consolidation of a functioning parliamentary democracy in Poland's “old-new” capital city.

scholarly journals Forensic Engineering Analysis Of Baseball Ballistics

2012 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David S. Komm
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Prior Knowledge ◽  
Sports Facilities ◽  
Engineering Analysis ◽  
Minor League Baseball ◽  
Car Seat ◽  
Minor League ◽  
Parking Lot ◽  
Forensic Engineering ◽  
A Minor

In 1998, A Baseball Traveled From A Minor-League Baseball Practice Area Into An Adjacent Parking Lot, Ultimately Striking A Six-Week Old Infant Being Placed Into A Car Seat. The Issue Of Appropriate Fence Heights Was Raised By The Infant Family. The Forensic Engineering Analysis Included Analysis Of The Baseball Flight Dynamics, The Application Of Statistical Analysis And The Design Of Sports Facilities. During Discovery, Prior Knowledge Of Similar Baseball Flight Paths Was Brought To Light, Presenting Challenges To The Defense.

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