Palm Desert is one of a handful of cities under consideration for the next full campus of California State University. Home to a satellite campus for CSU San Bernardino already, Joe Wallace and Laura James discuss and make the argument for a STEM-rich university with degree programs that will make the desert cities region flourish with economic development that will otherwise not be likely should CSU not expand to the Coachella Valley.

Hosting the Super Bowl or other major cultural events comes at a great expense to municipalities across the United States. Do taxpayers get a fair return on millions of dollars they invest to play host? Is the economic impact a region derives from these events all that it's reported to be? Joe Wallace and Laura James from the Coachella Valley Economic Partnership have some raw numbers and practical thinking when weighing the options.