ABC7: Tracy Hernandez says BizFed poll indicates necessity of Prop 1
BizFed Founding CEO Tracy Hernandez was featured in an ABC7 Eyewitness News report about the narrow passage of Proposition 1, which authorizes $6.38 billion to address homelessness and modernize California’s behavioral health system. ABC7’s Josh Haskell filed the story from Gov. Gavin Newsom’s press conference celebrating the hard-won victory in Downtown Los Angeles. Business, healthcare, […]
Smart solution: Stop ‘SMART’ Prices Act before it kills innovation, jobs
Business leaders and life science advocates urged lawmakers to oppose federal drug pricing legislation that would stymie life-saving research, slash billions from California’s economy and wipe out more than 200,000 biopharmaceutical jobs statewide.
Business Leaders Seek ‘Mask Advisory’ Compromise as Mandate Looms
A cadre of diverse business leaders representing all sectors and communities across Los Angeles County urged public health officials to consider a more effective and compliance-friendly alternatives to a universal indoor mask mandate. Diverse business organizations and trade groups making up the Los Angeles County Business Federation “BizFed,” a network that unites more than 225 […]
AQMD approves new smog-cutting plan
(Photo) The downtown skyline is enveloped in smog shortly before sunset on November 17, 2006 in Los Angeles, California. DAVID MCNEW/GETTY IMAGES KPCC By: Sharon McNary Air quality regulators adopted an extensive new package of rules Friday aimed at cutting smog in Southern California by half within 7 years. The plan from the South Coast Air […]
Southern California air quality officials OK cleanup plan
By DAVID DANELSKI / STAFF WRITER Published: March 3, 2017 Southern California air quality officials approved a 15-year pollution clean-up plan Friday, March 3, after adding provisions that would eventually eliminate a pollution-credits marketplace that regulates emissions from oil refineries and other major smokestack polluters. But the 11-2 vote by the South Coast Air Quality […]
NEWS RELEASE: BIZFED PAC ANNOUNCES FIRST ROUND OF ENDORSEMENTS IN 13 CITIES ACROSS LOS ANGELES COUNTY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, February 22, 2017 Contact: Tracy Hernandez 818.429.0862 BIZFED PAC ANNOUNCES FIRST ROUND OF ENDORSEMENTS IN 13 CITIES ACROSS LOS ANGELES COUNTY LOS ANGELES, CA – The BizFed PAC, a project of the Los Angeles County Business Federation (BizFed), announced its support of 30 jobs friendly candidates for the upcoming March 7 […]
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 […]
