Government Relations

The Bay Area Council’s Government Relations Committee on Thursday (Dec. 17) met with Bay Area legislators to discuss recommendations from our rec...

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 Chair Michael Covarrubias called for a moment of silence at yesterday’s (Dec. 3) Board of Directors meeting to honor beloved Bay Area bus...

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 ...

Bay Area commuters were the big winners this week in a unanimous decision by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency to make permanent a ...

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

Senior Bay Area legislative staffers this week got a comprehensive briefing on the Bay Area Council Economic Institute’s Roadmap for Economic Res...

The Bay Area Council welcomed Ambassador Ron Kirk, former U.S. Trade Representative under President Obama, for a discussion on the TPP, overall tra...

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

California’s increasingly volatile climate is the new normal, and Bay Area businesses and water agencies are coming up with innovative ways to ad...