Government Relations

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...

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...

More than 700 CEOs, top executives and other community and elected leaders joined the Bay Area Council for our Annual Dinner and Business Hall of F...

The Bay Area Council wishes you all a very happy holidays. And we look forward to another exciting year working with you to make our region and the...

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...

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...

With victories and major progress in 2012 on all of the Bay Area Council’s top policy priorities, the Executive Committee this week adopted its 2...