Pursuing Different Dividends in L.A.
Friday, February 3, 2017 Opinion Editorial Tracy Hernandez, Founding CEO BizFed In May of last year, financial advice website WalletHub released a study gauging diversity among U.S. cities. The study examined several measures including racial, economic, household, and social class. Los Angeles came in at a respectable No. 12 among the nation’s 313 largest cities. […]
Much-reviewed air quality plan should be passed now: Guest commentary
Rudy W. Eden, senior laboratory manager for the South Coast Air Quality Management District, shows filters used to capture and measure particulate pollution in this August 2013 photo. (Staff file photo) By Tracy Hernandez POSTED: 02/02/17, 10:28 AM PST On Friday the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) will take up the Air Quality […]
Air quality board set to adopt smog plan with voluntary measures for ports, tougher rules on refineries
By: Tony Barboza LA TIMES Southern California air quality regulators are poised to adopt a pollution-reduction plan Friday that relies on voluntary measures from ports, warehouses and rail yards responsible for much of the region’s harmful emissions. The South Coast Air Quality Management District board also appears likely to adopt a tougher regulatory stance toward […]
BizFed Mannequin Challenge!
Team BizFed would like to wish our members, friends, families and colleagues a joyous holiday and new year! We hope you’ll enjoy our rendition of the viral Mannequin Challenge, and invite you to share it! Twitter: @bizfed // @bizfedinstitute Facebook: @Los Angeles County Business Federation
BizFed Weighs in on Proposed LA County 1/4 cent sales tax for Homeless Services
Dear Chairman Ridley-Thomas, On behalf of the Los Angeles County Business Federation (BizFed) – representing more than 160 top business groups with 325,000 employers and 3 million employees across our region – we are writing to urge you to include two important provisions in the proposed ¼ cent sales tax to fund homeless services. BizFed […]
Annual Kosmont-Rose Institute Cost of Doing Business Survey Report
The 2015/16 survey gathers business fees & a variety of tax rates from 305 U.S. cities, focusing on states with active business relocation. NEWS PROVIDED BY Kosmont Companies and Claremont McKenna College’s Rose Institute Nov 21, 2016, 14:49 ET LOS ANGELES, Nov. 21, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Claremont McKenna College’s Rose Institute of State & Local […]
Affordable-housing plan must come from lawmakers, labor working together: Guest commentary
By M.C. Townsend POSTED: 11/17/16, 12:05 PM PST In June, Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies reported that Los Angeles County needs 382,000 additional apartments to keep up with demand. The Southern California Association of Governments indicates a shortage of at least 600,000 total housing units in the region (more than a million statewide). With […]
LA Mayor Garcetti, Sen. Hertzberg Join with CSUN Students to Promote Measure M
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and California State Senator Bob Hertzberg visited the University Student Union at California State University, Northridge on Thursday, Nov. 3 to rally with students in support of Measure M, the ballot measure to increase public transportation investment in Los Angeles County. Garcetti and Hertzberg were joined by Associated Students Vice […]
