The Bay Area’s educational performance is showing improvement, but that’s not sufficient. We’ve been handling, to some degree, the growth of the economy through improvements in efficiency, but that may be a slippery slope. There’s...

The signs are about as bright as they’ve been for a long time. We’ve got the highest confidence in hiring that we’ve seen since we started doing the survey, with the biggest spread between employers...

This is really an emergency system. But we would have the opportunity to enhance everyday service.

What a difference three months make. This is strong news for our economy and Bay Area workers.

What a difference three months makes. This is strong news for our economy and Bay Area workers. Last quarter, with the hurricanes and spike in energy costs, local confidence plunged to the worst level in...

As we suspected, that now appears to have been only a momentary shock, and the Bay Area business community expects the region’s economy to steadily improve.

This is a continued cry for help from the people stuck in traffic each day whose only option is to grip the steering wheel tighter. This is both a state and a regional failure to...

Transportation is something that people feel every day. It’s an ugly problem. It’s very, very frustrating.

I think people realize what’s at stake here.

There’s already been clear motion from housing to equities, but it isn’t to the level that we can say it’s part of a long-term trend.

The Bay Area is not prepared for its next major disaster. The painful lessons that emerged from recent disasters in the United States drive our passion to protect the Bay Area. The aftermath of Hurricane...

First and foremost transportation. Every time we ask, Bay Area business leaders and voters tell us that’s the number one headache in the Bay Area. Number two education … third is affordable housing.

In some cases they’re cashing out, and in some cases they just can’t afford to stay.

We’ve finally been able to get political leaders to agree that it’s time for a major infrastructure investment. Things are moving in the right direction.

Education is critical, We’ve got to do more and we’ve got to do it quickly.

Continuing historical trends, the Bay Area has clearly emerged from the most recent recession in a strong position. Bay Area employers are in the center of one of the world’s most dominant and rapidly growing...