El Monte residents get their wish: Walmart project approved
EL MONTE >> Residents are finally getting what they’ve been asking for. Walmart is coming to El Monte. For more than five years, residents have implored the City Council to bring the retail giant to El Monte. They’ve bashed city leaders for not doing enough to attract it. They’ve lamented that El Monte can’t get […]
A Firing at The Los Angeles Times Focuses Discontent
By RAVI SOMAIYA, SEPT. 20, 2015 In January, Jack Griffin, the chief executive of Tribune Publishing Company, took his senior management team to visit The Los Angeles Times, the jewel in his company’s portfolio of newspapers. At a reception at the newspaper, and a dinner downtown, there was one notable absentee — The Times’s new publisher, […]
BizFed August Board Actions
Many thanks to the South Bay Association of Chambers for generously sponsoring the August Board Meeting and thank you to the Torrance Area Chamber of Commerce for hosting us! Since this was the first Board meeting after returning from our month off in July, we addressed a number of hot issues. See below for the details! […]
Department of Water and Power shouldn’t be a ‘piggy bank’ for Los Angeles: Guest commentary
Op-Ed by David Fleming, Founder of the Los Angeles County Business Federation Published by LA Daily News Thursday, August 13th, 2015 Is it not unreasonable to assume that hundred-year-old underground water mains might eventually break? That assumption has apparently eluded present and past city leaders whom, for years, have failed to reserve needed funds for the repairs […]
BizFed Leadership Roundtable with Asm. Matt Dababneh, Chairman, Committee on Banking and Finance
On Monday, July 27, a diverse group of BizFed members traveled to the Van Nuys Government Center to meet with Assemblymember Matt Dababneh, Chairman of the Assembly Committee on Banking and Finance. Dababneh was elected to the California State Assembly in November 2013, in the class of post-term limits legislators who have the potential to serve […]
Cadiz Water Project Earns Support of BizFed
LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cadiz Inc. (NASDAQ: CDZI), a California land and water resources development company, is pleased to announce that it has posted a new letter from United States Representative Mimi Walters (R-Irvine) in support of the Cadiz Valley Water Conservation, Recovery & Storage Project (“Cadiz Water Project”) to its website at http://cadizinc.com/projectsupport/. Congresswoman Walters’ endorsement […]
BizFed Win: LA County General Plan Update to Include Fiscal Impacts Analysis
After nearly 2 years of intensive work, BizFed has been successful in getting a Fiscal Impacts Analysis included in the LA County General Plan update. Last week, a delegation from BizFed’s LA County General Plan Working Group met with Connie Chung, Mark Child, and Ayala Ben-Yehuda from the Department of Regional Planning and Carolyn Hull […]
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 community, and indeed for all of the diverse stakeholders who ultimately concluded that too many problems remained with the proposal. […]
