Sky-High Bill for Business
Howard Fine, Los Angeles Business Journal Published Monday, June 29, 2015 It’s raining money! Or so Gov. Jerry Brown would have us believe. The new state budget assumes $2.2 billion in new revenue from California’s pioneering cap-and-trade program designed to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But thousands of business and community leaders are concerned about […]
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 Win: LA County General Plan Update to Include Fiscal Impacts Analysis
After nearly 2 years of intensive work, BizFed has been successful in getting a Fiscal Impacts Analysis included in the LA County General Plan update. Last week, a delegation from BizFed’s LA County General Plan Working Group met with Connie Chung, Mark Child, and Ayala Ben-Yehuda from the Department of Regional Planning and Carolyn Hull […]
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. […]
