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 […]
Clean-air plan is one that SoCal business could live with
By The Editorial Board, The Daily Breeze POSTED: 02/01/17, Balancing the need for clean air and the need for industry is no small task. It requires a careful, judicious weighing of the costs and benefits of regulatory action and voluntary cooperation. Command-and-control regulations may seem expedient, but they can become burdensome and harmful to economic […]
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 […]
We need your voice at AQMP public hearings this week
Dear BizFed-SoCal Business Coalition on AQMD and CARB, This week, the SCAQMD is holding a round of regional public hearings on the 2016 Air Quality Management Plan (AQMP), the outcome of which could have significant impacts on industry and the economy in Southern California. As you know, this Coalition has worked very hard to provide […]
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 […]
Measure M can thaw L.A. County’s glacial traffic: Guest commentary
By David Fleming and Gilbert Ivey POSTED: 10/28/16, 12:42 PM PDT | Without action, Los Angeles traffic is about to get a lot worse. More productive hours of the day will be wasted on jammed highways. The snail’s pace of delivering goods and services will continue to drive business away. The spirit of even the […]
