Report: Bay Area economy thriving

Oakland Tribune;  March 24, 2006 ;     700+ words ...The Bay Area's economy is stronger now than during...to an economic report released today. Bay Area businesses rely heavily on the productivity...economic profile issued jointly by the Bay Area Economic Forum, the Bay Area Council...

Study Lays Out Three Smart Growth Options for San Francisco Bay Area.

Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, California) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  April 11, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Vorderbrueggen Apr. 11--OAKLAND, Calif.--The Bay Area can grow without paving over farmland...1 million people expected to call the Bay Area home by 2020. There is a resounding understanding...said Sunne Wright McPeak, director of the Bay Area Council and former Contra Costa County...

Tauscher Teams with MTC to Unveil New Phone, Web Services; For Bay Area...

PR Newswire;  December 6, 2002 ;     700+ words ......vanpoolers and bicyclists throughout the Bay Area. U.S. Rep. Ellen Tauscher, who serves...being rolled out in stages nationwide. The Bay Area is the largest metropolitan area in the...schedule information from nearly three dozen Bay Area transit operators, 20 operators of ...

ChevronTexaco Tops List of Largest San Francisco Bay-Area Companies.

Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, California) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  April 15, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Byline: George Avalos Apr. 15--The Bay Area's technology industry may be bloody, but...foreseeable future. Yet the endurance of the Bay Area technology industry doesn't mean the region...eroded the balance sheets of numerous Bay Area firms. Those are some of the conclusions...

Report Foresees Moderate Economic Growth for California's Bay Area.

San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, California) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  January 7, 2002 ;     531 words ...Byline: Mary Anne Ostrom Jan. 7--The Bay Area will post moderate economic gains over...to a report being released today. The Bay Area economy will grow between 4.2 percent...according to an analysis prepared for the Bay Area Council, the Bay Area Economic Forum and...

Bay Area economy pulling itself out of dot-com bust

Oakland Tribune;  May 23, 2006 ;     700+ words ...The Bay Area economy basked during the dot-com boom...is moving forward, and the state of the Bay Area is that it's doing fine." Even if it's...the employment started to expand in the Bay Area after an extended period where we kept...

Job market slowly improves, but not in San Francisco Bay area.

Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, California) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  August 13, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Byline: George Avalos Aug. 13--The Bay Area job market remains the worst of the worst...this region. During those 36 months, the Bay Area lost 324,000 private-sector jobs. That...centers. But during the past six months, the Bay Area has begun to show greater strength in...

November jobless report for San Francisco Bay area snaps positive trend.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  December 11, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 11--The Bay Area job market stumbled in November and abruptly clouded...Bay in November was the strongest performer in the Bay Area. While the Bay Area lost jobs in November, workers were hired in the...

Study: Bay Area roads nation's second-worst

Oakland Tribune;  March 13, 2008 ;     668 words ...The Bay Area has the nation's second worst road and...in TRIP's 2006 study, the rest of the Bay Area rose from third- to second-worst. "We...1991," said Bill Dodd, chairman of the Bay Area's Metropolitan Transportation Commission...

Agency looks at future of region Planners foresee a bigger, grayer and...

Oakland Tribune;  December 15, 2006 ;     591 words ...The Bay Area will be grayer, more crowded and slightly...bit more affordable, the Association of Bay Area Governments said at its Projections 2007...Symposium in Oakland. The lion's share of the Bay Area's population growth will occur in San...

Executives turn bullish on Bay Area.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  January 30, 2002 ;     445 words ......CREEK, Calif. _ Business leaders in the Bay Area might not exactly be brimming with confidence...released Thursday. An estimated 66 percent of Bay Area executives believe the economy in the...improve in the coming six months, the Bay Area Council found in a poll of business ...

Traffic is Bay Area's top problem, poll says.

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  December 5, 2002 ;     591 words ......being tagged the No. 1 problem in the Bay Area for seven years running. Yet that's the...greatest concerns living in the nine-county Bay Area. Traffic received the same percentage...the regional business organization the Bay Area Council _ is what didn't make the list...

Study : Bay Area roadways lacking

Oakland Tribune;  March 13, 2008 ;     673 words ...The Bay Area has the nation's second worst road and...in TRIP's 2006 study, the rest of the Bay Area rose from the nation's third- to second-wor...1991," said Bill Dodd, chairman of the Bay Area's Metropolitan Transportation Commission...

Bay Area transportation projects among the most in the nation.(Knight...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  February 27, 2002 ;     700+ words ......it comes to highway construction, the Bay Area rocks. By the end of the year, Caltrans...years. We're entering a dramatic time in Bay Area history, said Andrew Fremier, Caltrans...orange over nearly every corner of the Bay Area over the next 5 to 10 years. The projects...

Bay Area Jamaicans Show Spirit

Sun Reporter, The;  August 3, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Sun Reporter, The 08-03-2000 Bay Area Jamaicans Show Spirit In Alameda, the...the Kaiser Center, where the view of the Bay Area is panoramic. It was a perfect setting...how many Jamaicans are now living in the Bay Area. "We're not really sure," he said, chuckling...