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New Report Examines CA’s Readiness for Tsunami of Energy, Communications Technologies

California’s infrastructure has allowed some of the world’s most innovative technology companies to thrive here. But for that infrastructure to...

STATE ASSEMBLY APPROVES MEASURE TO REDUCE TRAFFIC CONGESTION

The Bay Area Council’s advocacy efforts paid off this week (March 23) as the California Assembly and its Transportation Committee overwhelmingly ...

PITCHING A LOCAL ALTERNATIVE FOR LUCAS MUSEUM

Facing headwinds in Chicago over plans to build his Museum of Narrative Art, Star Wars Director and Bay Area Business Hall of Fame inductee George ...

Council Convenes Lively Debate on Housing Moratoria

A standing room-only crowd at the Bay Area Council Conference Center was treated to a lively discussion on Thursday (Feb. 26) about the roots of th...

PENINSULA’S HIGHWAY 101 TRAFFIC CRISIS DESERVES AND GETS ACTION

The Bay Area Council’s work over the past year to speed traffic relief on the badly congested Highway 101 corridor between San Francisco and San ...

PROPOSED HOUSING MORATORIUMS: GREAT IDEA OR MADNESS?

The Bay Area Council is responding quickly to a troubling move by several Bay Area cities to impose moratoriums on new housing. After the Council v...

BAY AREA COUNCIL CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE END TO DAMAGING WEST COAST PORTS LABOR DISPUTE

Following the weekend (Feb. 7-8) closure of the Port of Oakland and 28 other West Coast ports over a long-running contract dispute, the Bay Area Co...

COUNCIL HOSTS UNVEILING OF MILKEN INSTITUTE BEST-PERFORMING CITIES RANKING

The Bay Area confirmed its place as the nation’s hottest tech and job creation center with the release Thursday (Jan. 8) by the Milken Institute ...

LEADERSHIP CHANGE AT ECONOMIC INSTITUTE ANNOUNCED

The Bay Area Council Economic Institute this week (Jan. 5) announced that effective February 1, 2015 Dr. Micah Weinberg will become President, succ...

NEW HEAD OF CA-CHINA TRADE OFFICE ANNOUNCED

Positioning California to attract a growing share of China’s massive foreign investment pool and bolstering California-China trade, the Bay Area ...
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