Bill to reshape area air-quality board fails
By DAVID DANELSKI / STAFF WRITER Published: Sept. 1, 2016 Updated: 9:27 p.m. California Assembly rejects a proposal to add three seats to the board of the South Coast Air Quality Management District The California Assembly has rejected a bill that would have reduced the local control of Southern California’s regional air district’s board by […]
Don’t pollute air board with state appointees
By The Editorial Board, LA Daily News POSTED: 08/22/16, 4:19 PM PDT When Supreme Court Justice Owen Roberts, seen as a swing vote on the court, shifted his allegiance and rendered the deciding vote to uphold the constitutionality of a state minimum wage law in the court’s 1937 West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish decision, […]
The TPP and US SMEs: Good for business?
Global Trade Review: SME FOCUS / March 9, 2016 / BY ELEANOR WRAGG With a deliberate focus on small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and special provisions to help them integrate into the global supply chain, could the TPP be a chance to bring trade simplicity to small American firms? Eleanor Wragg reports. After almost six years […]
Take the BizFed annual issues poll – help guide policies and programs of LA County’s largest business advocacy organization
BizFed‘s annual poll is your chance to tell the Los Angeles County Business Federation (BizFed) what’s helping or hurting your business so we can mobilize our massive and diverse grassroots alliance to raise your voice with public officials and the media. When we meet with LA County Supervisors, State Legislators, and Mayors and […]
It’s time to give the DWP a reboot
LA Times Op-ed by: Mickey Kantor and Austin Beutner, co-chairs of the independent commission LA2020. Its 2014 report “A Time for Action” made recommendations on how to achieve fiscal stability and job growth in Los Angeles, including an independent board to oversee DWP. February 15 , 2016 Every time you turn on a light or […]
BizFed Installs Officers for 2016
By HOWARD FINE Thursday, January 21, 2016 The Los Angeles County Business Federation, the umbrella group of local business organizations, has installed its new officers for 2016. The federation, commonly called BizFed, is an alliance of 155 business organizations in Los Angeles County representing 275,000 businesses that employ roughly 3 million people. It formed eight […]
BizFed Leadership Roundtable with Assemblymember Jimmy Gomez
On Friday, November 6, BizFed leaders met with Assemblymember Jimmy Gomez, Chairman, Committee on Appropriations. Attendees learned that Asm. Gomez and Sen. Beall, Co-Chairs of Transportation Infrastructure Conference Committee, will ensure transportation funding bills get full floor votes this spring. Want to learn more? Click here for the full onesheet. Leadership roundtables are exclusive opportunities […]
BizFed recommends Short Term Rental principles to LA City Council
The BizFed Land Use, Housing, and Development Committee voted to recommend the following principles to guide the creation of a City of Los Angeles short-term rental ordinance: Local governments should collect Transit Occupancy Tax (TOT) based on short-term rentals. Local governments should create simple processes to enable platforms to facilitate TOT collection if those platforms so […]
