LA County balking at matching city’s $15 minimum wage
The city of Los Angeles’ decision to increase the minimum wage there to $15 an hour is causing turmoil for the surrounding county, where an effort to match the city’s rate has stalled. County Supervisor Hilda Solis, whose support is crucial, stunned advocates by opposing the proposed increase during a board of supervisors meeting Tuesday, […]
Cadiz Water Project Earns Support of BizFed
LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cadiz Inc. (NASDAQ: CDZI), a California land and water resources development company, is pleased to announce that it has posted a new letter from United States Representative Mimi Walters (R-Irvine) in support of the Cadiz Valley Water Conservation, Recovery & Storage Project (“Cadiz Water Project”) to its website at http://cadizinc.com/projectsupport/. Congresswoman Walters’ endorsement […]
Cap-and-Trade Talk is All About the Money
Joel Fox, Fox&Hounds Published Monday, June 8, 2015 When discussing California’s landmark Cap-and-Trade legislation set up to pay for carbon emissions there is more conversation about money than there is about climate change. How much will the program cost? How will the money be spent? How will the overall economy be affected if billions of […]
LA City Council rebuffs unions on exception to $15 wage, for now
The Los Angeles City Council rebuffed organized labor Wednesday by rejecting, for now at least, their request to include an exception for unionized businesses in the city’s new $15-an-hour minimum wage. The wage ordinance may still be amended to include the labor exemption before it takes effect, though. The ordinance’s passage Wednesday, even without the […]
L.A. committee approves final $15 minimum wage ordinance, asks for study of union exemption
Los Angeles is one step closer to a $15 minimum wage, after a key city council committee approved the final ordinance Friday afternoon. The controversial issue of whether union members should be exempt from the new wage dominated the hearing of the Economic Development committee. “This simply isn’t a secret way to incentivize workers to […]
BizFed Institute: CLEAN WATER FOR LIFE AND BUSINESS – Critical Intelligence on Water Issues for Business Leaders and Decision Makers
More than 150 business, community, and opinon leaders participated in the BizFed Institute’s NextUp Forum: Clean Water for Life and Business at Woodbury University in Burbank on June 4, 2014. This major half-day educational event brought together top academic, government, industry, and environmental experts to address the opportunities and challenges associated with securing safe, reliable sources of clean water […]
VICTORY: Supes Scrap Water Parcel Tax Measure – New Effort Targets 2014
Today we are pleased to report that the LA County Board of Supervisors voted NOT TO PROCEED with the proposed “Clean Water, Clean Beaches” parcel tax measure. This is a big victory for the business community, and indeed for all of the diverse stakeholders who ultimately concluded that too many problems remained with the proposal. […]
