Bay Area Former Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf named Bay Area Council CEO Bay City NewsUpdated Apr 13, 2026 Libby Schaaf, the former mayor of Oakland, has been appointed president and CEO of the Bay Area Council following a national search, the regio…
Business Survey shows post-pandemic office work changes By Eli Walsh Bay City News Foundation Dec 10, 2021 Nearly half of Bay Area employers expect employees to work in person on three days a week post-pandemic, a market shift that could result in r…
Bay Area Featured Bay Area water districts are weathering drought Daily Journal wire report Sep 20, 2021 Officials from four of the Bay Area’s largest water districts said water storage and supply projects, conservation and political action will b…
Local News Featured Bay Area set to receive $250M annually for road, bridge repairs in bipartisan infrastructure bill By Eli Walsh Bay City News Foundation  Aug 20, 2021 The Bay Area will receive about $250 million per year for road and bridge repairs from the bipartisan infrastructure package federal legislato…
Columnists Transit, the gospel of balkanization and polls By Mark Simon Updated Jun 26, 2025 In the years I was fortunate to work for SamTrans and Caltrain, I would, on occasion, observe that there were a lot of transit experts and, ap…
Local News Featured Bay Area transit poll causes stir By Curtis Driscoll Daily Journal staffUpdated May 6, 2021 Although recent polling Friday found most Bay Area residents favor combining Caltrain and BART, the idea remains fraught with complications, w…
Local News Featured Bay Area outpaces other areas in remote-work jobs By Eli Walsh Bay City News Foundation Dec 28, 2020 The Bay Area outpaces California’s other metropolitan areas in the amount of its jobs that can be done from home, according to a study from th…
Local News The bright side of Bay Area economy By Anna Schuessler Daily Journal staff Updated Feb 2, 2019 Though many focus on their frustration with the Bay Area’s traffic congestion and tight housing market, Dr. Micah Weinberg, president of the B…
Bay Area Bay Area Council wants ‘mutual aid’ response for BART security Bay City News ServiceUpdated Aug 10, 2018 After recent deadly knife attacks on BART trains and stations, including the stabbing that killed 18-year-old Nia Wilson last month, the presi…
