Economy

Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta talks about past presidents and the operation to capture Osama bin Laden. Gov. Jerry Brown argues for more eq...

Immigration reform that the Bay Area Council has been pressing for several years took a promising step forward this week when a bipartisan bill cle...

The Bay Area Council scored several legislative victories this week related to our focus policy work.

California’s new health insurance marketplace -- Covered California -- last Wednesday took a big step forward when it launched the website where ...

Legislation introduced by San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener won the unanimous endorsement of the Bay Area Council’s CEQA Reform Committee und...

As news of the retroactive entrepreneur’s tax spreads across the state, the Bay Area Council is working with Gov. Jerry Brown’s office on the i...

Good things may come to those who wait… but more often good things come to those who work hard and push year after year for change. That appears ...

Momentum is gathering for modernizing the California Environmental Quality Act. The state’s landmark environmental protection law hasn’t been u...

You might think that a region as globally powerful as the Bay Area would have a coordinated and deliberate strategy for growing our economy and cre...

A surprising and potentially very damaging decision by the California Franchise Tax Board (FTB) may challenge that California is still a great plac...