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New Poll Shows Strong Support for Stabilizing Higher Ed Funding

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...

NEW WEBSITE FOR BAY RESTORATION CAMPAIGN

Defending the Bay Area against extreme weather, flooding and sea level rise just got a bit easier with the launch of a new website to support a Jun...

NEW TOOL CALCULATES COST OF PRETERM BIRTHS TO BUSINESS

A new online tool unveiled yesterday (Dec. 10) by the Bay Area Council Economic Institute and the March of Dimes Foundation enables employers to ca...

COUNCIL EXECUTIVE ACCEPTED TO PRESTIGIOUS PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLARS PROGRAM

Bing Wei, Bay Area Council Senior Vice President for Global Initiatives, has been accepted into the prestigious Presidential Leadership Scholars Pr...

COUNCIL’S 2016 POLICY AGENDA TAKES DEAD AIM AT REGION’S TOP CHALLENGES

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 ...

BIG WIN FOR COMMUTER SHUTTLES, COMMUTERS

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

The University of California’s Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) will establish a new global innovat...

BOLD NEW VISION FOR REGIONAL ECONOMIC RESILIENCE

The Bay Area Council Economic Institute today unveiled a sweeping (and provocative), new regional economic vision for strengthening the Bay Area’...

Irish President Higgins Joins Council in Celebrating Benioff, Feeney

Salesforce Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff and Duty Free Shoppers Group Founder Chuck Feeney were the guests of honor at the Bay Area Council’s 70t...

COUNCIL’S VISION FOR MORE COORDINATED REGIONAL PLANNING GETS BOOST

The Bay Area Council weighed in this week on a proposal to merge the region's housing and transportation planning agencies.
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