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CEQA COMMITTEE ENDORSES SF SUPERVISOR SCOTT WIENER’S LOCAL REFORM LEGISLATION

Feb 19 2013

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

Bay Area Council Leading the Fight to Restore CA Start-Up Incentive

Feb 2 2013

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...

Promising Movement on Immigration Reform

Feb 2 2013

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 Gathering for Modernizing CEQA

Feb 1 2013

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

Learning from Our Neighbors on Regional Economic Strategy

Feb 1 2013

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...

HARMFUL DECISION FOR CALIFORNIA ENTREPRENEURS, JOB CREATION

Jan 25 2013

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

RESTORING THE LUSTER TO CALIFORNIA’S HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM

Jan 23 2013

There has been considerable buzz in recent weeks about the potential for online education to play a role in addressing some of the growing challeng...

FISCAL CLIFF CONCERNS CAUSING SOME CEOs TO DELAY BUSINESS INVESTMENTS, NEW BAY AREA COUNCIL SURVEY FINDS

Dec 20 2012

Many Bay Area companies are holding off on business investments as they wait to see if the U.S. will plunge off the fiscal cliff, according to a Ba...

GOV. BROWN ENGAGES WITH BAY AREA COUNCIL LEADERSHIP ON 2013 AGENDA

Dec 10 2012

Clearly energized from his Proposition 30 victory, and preparing next year's budget and his State of the State speech, Governor Jerry Brown sat dow...

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ADOPTS 2013 BAY AREA COUNCIL POLICY PLATFORM