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JOBS, POPULATION GROWTH HIGHLIGHT BAY AREA’S HOUSING CRISIS

Fresh on the heels of a blunt report by the Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) examining California’s housing affordability crisis, new jobs an...

KEEPING CALIFORNIA CONNECTED, POWERED AND COMPETITIVE

A few stories in the news this week (March 23) highlighted the growing urgency for modernizing California’s energy and communications systems. Th...

DAMNING REPORT FROM LEGISLATURE ADMITS CEQA STOPS HOUSING

California’s soaring housing costs are the primary reason the state’s poverty rate (23 percent) is the highest in the nation and why the state ...

TRANSPORTATION TECH-CONGRESS COLLIDE AT COUNCIL MEETING

The Bay Area Council under the leadership of Transportation Committee Chair and Arup Principal John Eddy on March 12 hosted an invigorating discuss...

SALESFORCE CEO BENIOFF GIVES BOOST TO COUNCIL’S EARLY ED INITIATIVE

The innovative early childhood education program that the Bay Area Council is helping lead in Oakland got some good news this week when Salesforce ...

FORMER U.S. AMB. JOHN BOLTON GIVES PRIVATE BRIEFING FOR COUNCIL MEMBERS

The U.S. risks undermining its global economic interests by failing to project stronger, more assertive leadership in key strategic conflicts aroun...

PITCHING A LOCAL ALTERNATIVE FOR LUCAS MUSEUM

Facing headwinds in Chicago over plans to build his Museum of Narrative Art, Star Wars Director and Bay Area Business Hall of Fame inductee George ...

UPCOMING STUDIES EXPLORE CRITICAL CA, BAY AREA ISSUES

What does California need to do to ensure it has the energy and communications infrastructure necessary to compete globally? Is the Bay Area prepar...

Council Convenes Lively Debate on Housing Moratoria

A standing room-only crowd at the Bay Area Council Conference Center was treated to a lively discussion on Thursday (Feb. 26) about the roots of th...

PENINSULA’S HIGHWAY 101 TRAFFIC CRISIS DESERVES AND GETS ACTION

The Bay Area Council’s work over the past year to speed traffic relief on the badly congested Highway 101 corridor between San Francisco and San ...
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