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BizFed Meets with Congressman McCarthy
Nearly two-dozen BizFed members engaged in an insightful small-group dialogue last month with Congressman Kevin McCarthy, delving into issues ranging from taxes and transportation to education and visa reform –...
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BizFed Tours Colorado River Aqueduct
Nearly two-dozen BizFed-member business leaders took part in a special behind-the-scenes Inspection Trip of the Colorado River Aqueduct & Hoover Dam Nov. 2-4. The educational trip was hosted by Metropolitan Water...
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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...
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BizFed-Daily News Mayoral Debate: Candidates Grilled on Budget Solutions
More than 700 Angelenos turned out Feb. 7 for the BizFed-Daily News LA City Mayoral Candidate Debate, where candidates were grilled on the city's finances by moderator Austin Beutner, a former LA City Deputy Mayor...
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BizFed Connects with LA County Freshman Legislators
With this year's unprecedented turnover in LA County's state legislative delegation (13 Assembly and 2 Senate), BizFed held its first-ever special breakfast reception Feb. 22 for freshman state legislators to...
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BizFed Engages with CA Lt. Gov. Newsom
BizFed leaders are continuing their nearly 2 years of direct engagement with Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office to help move California’s economy forward, meeting recently to discuss the status of his office...
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LA City Council Supports SCIG - $500M BNSF Near-Dock Rail Facility
You saw the news about LA City Council approving the Southern California International Gateway (SCIG), which will both create jobs and improve air quality for Southern California.  As hard as we work to urge...
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2013: Find Out What's Ahead at LAEDC's Economic Forecast Event

Posted January 2, 2013 - 12:17pm

It's a new year - so what's ahead? Don’t miss attending the 2013 Economic Forecast forum on February 20 as the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp continues its theme on innovation with the Entertainment Industry - and hear the latest economic forecast for the first half of this year.

CA Tops Nation in State Worker Pay Giveaway

Posted December 19, 2012 - 11:38pm

Bloomberg News has done an investigative look at payroll data collected on 1.4 million public employees in the 12 most populous states in the nation. It's a lengthy but critical - and sobering - look at California's tax management, operations and cost of state workers. To read the series, click here. Here's the headline and an excerpt: $822,000 Worker Shows CA Leads U.S. Pay Giveaway....

CA Assemblyman Forms Small-Business Advisory Commission

Posted December 17, 2012 - 1:40am

Assemblyman Mike Gatto (D-Los Angeles) announced he is seeking applications from local business owners to serve on his District 43 Business Advisory Commission. The commission will meet several times in the months ahead, with the goal with formulating one or more legislative proposals that would be introduced by Assemblyman Gatto in the 2013 state legislative session.

CEQA Reform: Priority for 2013

Posted December 16, 2012 - 1:30am

BizFed has joined a statewide CEQA Working Group and remains actively involved in efforts to reform the California Environmental Quality Act - to protect the environment but also to stop abuses. CEQA reform is expected to be a top issue in Sacramento in 2013. Read excerpts of the latest news and stay engaged:

Bay Delta Plan Close to Completion

Posted December 15, 2012 - 1:35am

The Delta Stewardship Council has posted its Final Draft Delta Plan. When completed, the Delta Plan and its regulations will:

SoCal Business Gains in new 2012 Air Quality Management Plan

Posted December 13, 2012 - 9:59am

Thanks to the hard work and unified efforts of our broad and diverse coalition of Southern California businesses, the South Coast Air Quality Management District Governing Board last week voted unanimously (with two members absent) to adopt new air quality rules with some important changes. While the Governing Board did not limit the plan to PM2.5 measures, as we advocated, in the final analysis, the outcome of the 2012 Air Quality Management Plan process represents an important victory for the business community:

Grow Your Business: Export Opportunities Expanding

Posted December 7, 2012 - 12:43pm

There is significant breaking-news in continuing U.S. efforts to boost exports: The Senate voted yesterday to support permanent normalized trade relations with Russia to grow U.S. exports and secure market access that will help create American jobs.

The "Fiscal Cliff": Impact on the Southwest

Posted December 5, 2012 - 9:32am

The Southwest Defense Alliance and Southern California Leadership Council
just released a report titled "The Economic Impact of the National Defense
Drawdown and Sequestration on the Southwest Region: 2009-2017," which finds
that in the Southwest Region, the "economic impacts from the projected and
proportional spending decrease" between 2009 and 2017 would amount to:

California
-336,000 lost jobs
-$21.4 billion in decreased economic output

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