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. […]
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 […]
ATTENTION: Bring Us Your Action Items!
Dear BizFed Members, Each month, BizFed advocates on a wide range of issues that come directly from our members. In an effort to maximize our reach and advocacy on your behalf, you will now receive a monthly reminder intended to guide you through the BizFed advocacy process. This notice includes a breakdown of what we […]
Former Daily News city editor Judi Erickson dies at 53
By Gregory J. Wilcox, Los Angeles Daily News POSTED: 12/30/16, 8:02 PM PST Judi Erickson, the former city editor of the Los Angeles Daily News who went on to help start a regional business alliance, has died. She was 53. She died overnight Wednesday at her home in Marion, Kentucky, said former Daily News publisher […]
BizFed Mannequin Challenge!
Team BizFed would like to wish our members, friends, families and colleagues a joyous holiday and new year! We hope you’ll enjoy our rendition of the viral Mannequin Challenge, and invite you to share it! Twitter: @bizfed // @bizfedinstitute Facebook: @Los Angeles County Business Federation
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 […]
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 […]
