Government Relations

The Bay Area Council this week (March 19) announced Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland) the recipient of our Regionalist of the Year award. Each...

Drug overdose deaths in San Francisco this year are on track to exceed last year’s record total of 813, which was up from the previous record of ...

The Bay Area Council this week (Feb. 21) announced its positions on key state and local measures appearing on the March 5 primary ballot. The Counc...

The Bay Area Council this week announced our endorsement of Proposition 1, the Behavioral Health Services Act on the March 5 primary election ballo...

If you believe that whoever controls the levers of power conveys any political advantage, then the leadership and legislative committee changes ann...

New Speaker of the California State Assembly, Robert Rivas, today met with members of the Bay Area Council Executive Committee and Board of Directo...

With just one day left before the Oct. 14 deadline for Gov. Newsom to sign or veto legislation, the Bay Area Council is celebrating what appears to...

California’s unemployment insurance program was established to assist workers who lose their jobs through no fault of their own, but a misguided ...

The New California Coalition (NCC), one of the state’s fastest growing business civic groups uniting tens of thousands of change-hungry Californi...

With House Republicans locked in an increasingly ugly intra-party battle and unable to even begin debate on the most noncontroversial of its spendi...