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COUNCIL PRIORITIES FARE WELL IN PROPOSED STATE BUDGET
Jan 8 2016
The Bay Area Council reacted generally favorably to the proposed 2016-17 state budget that Gov. Jerry Brown unveiled yesterday (Jan. 7). Here is a ...

New Poll Shows Strong Support for Stabilizing Higher Ed Funding
Jan 6 2016
The Bay Area Council today released results of a statewide poll that shows California voters want to put the brakes on decades of state funding cut...

HOUSING, TRAFFIC LEAD DISCUSSION WITH LEGISLATORS
Dec 18 2015
The Bay Area Council’s Government Relations Committee on Thursday (Dec. 17) met with Bay Area legislators to discuss recommendations from our rec...

COUNCIL’S 2016 POLICY AGENDA TAKES DEAD AIM AT REGION’S TOP CHALLENGES
Dec 4 2015
The Bay Area Council is taking dead aim at solving the region’s crisis-level housing and traffic problems with a 2016 policy agenda adopted this ...

COUNCIL MOURNS LOSS OF DOUGLAS SHORENSTEIN
Dec 4 2015
Council Chair Michael Covarrubias called for a moment of silence at yesterday’s (Dec. 3) Board of Directors meeting to honor beloved Bay Area bus...

NATIONAL URBAN PLANNING GURU APPLAUDS OUR ROADMAP FOR ECONOMIC RESILIENCE
Dec 4 2015
The Bay Area Council Economic Institute’s Roadmap for Economic Resilience got a nod this week from one of the top urban planning thinkers in the ...

BIG WIN FOR COMMUTER SHUTTLES, COMMUTERS
Nov 23 2015
Bay Area commuters were the big winners this week in a unanimous decision by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency to make permanent a ...

COUNCIL’S WORK RESULTS IN EXCITING CA-CHINA INNOVATION PARTNERSHIP
Nov 13 2015
The University of California’s Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) will establish a new global innovat...

ROAD TO ECONOMIC RESILIENCE RUNS THROUGH SACRAMENTO
Nov 13 2015
Senior Bay Area legislative staffers this week got a comprehensive briefing on the Bay Area Council Economic Institute’s Roadmap for Economic Res...

AMB. RON KIRK TALKS TRADE & TPP WITH THE COUNCIL
Nov 13 2015
The Bay Area Council welcomed Ambassador Ron Kirk, former U.S. Trade Representative under President Obama, for a discussion on the TPP, overall tra...
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