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 […]
Housing Our Workers’ Forum Set for Feb. 8
By Signal Contributor – February 1, 2017, 8:30 am297 By Marty Kovacs It’s time to face the stark reality: Housing is unaffordable throughout Greater Los Angeles for the people this we rely on the most — administrative support staff, police, fire, paramedics, teachers, nurses, construction workers, and many middle class workers. The “Housing Our Workers” […]
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 […]
Mayor Eric Garcetti for Goes Too Far
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE FULL VIDEO. Workers, business leaders, homeless advocates and neighborhood leaders agree: Measure S is bad for LA, and you should vote NO on March 7th. Here’s why. S eliminates jobs, which hurts our economy. It reduces housing supply, driving rents higher and it halts the creation of much-needed affordable housing. […]
BizFed Installs New Officers
The Los Angeles County Business Federation, or BizFed, has installed new officers for 2017. The grassroots alliance, a body of more than 160 L.A. County business groups including chambers of commerce, trade associations and business improvement districts, has been advocating on behalf of the region’s business community since 2008. This year, it will be helmed […]
LA leaders urge voters to pass quarter-cent sales tax to help homeless
By Susan Abram, Los Angeles Daily News POSTED: 01/30/17, 9:24 PM PST (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) Just a few blocks from where homeless encampments stretched along Silver Lake Boulevard, Los Angeles city and county officials launched a campaign Monday to encourage voters to approve a sales tax to boost social services […]
