Events and Entrees
Golden 1 Center’s opening translates into a significant bump in business for nearby restaurants
Two weeks after the Golden 1 Center opened last September, Pizza Rock stopped taking group reservations. The K Street restaurant that blends its food appeal with a nightlife scene had been dealing with empty tables and lines spilling out the door, as parties failed to arrive.
Calpers Considers Pay Raises for Top Executives in Delicate Move
Top-paid executives and investment managers of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System may get as much as a 5 percent bump in their base salaries this year under a proposal to be considered by the largest U.S. pension fund.
Back and Forward: Ron Bodenmann on How Businesses Handle Electronically Stored Information
Ron Bodenmann, founding partner of CyberCorp Forensics, gives his insights into e-discovery.
Back and Forward: Kimberly Garza on Making Vibrant Public Spaces
Kimberly Garza, a landscape architect and director of ATLAS Lab, offers her insight into how underutilized urban spaces can be transformed.
Time for Time Off?
Making sure you take time for yourself can lead to a healthier work life
If you need a better reason than being “tired” for taking time off, here are four ways to structure your vacation time that benefit you and your employer.
Catching a Wave
FourthWave Cofounder Cheryl Beninga on Sacramento as an emerging tech hub
FourthWave, a nonprofit accelerator program for women-led tech companies, expanded from its Los Angeles pilot to Sacramento in March and is already working with its first seven entrepreneurs. We sat down with Cheryl Beninga, who is the managing director of Beninga Advisors and who cofounded FourthWave Sacramento with Tracy Saville, CEO of Sofia Al., to talk about women in technology and the regional tech scene.
Plenty of Fish in the Creek
Spawning Chinook salmon have returned to Deer Creek for the first time in nearly a decade
In order for spawning Chinook salmon to return to Deer Creek this autumn, they first had to swim against the stream from the San Joaquin River to the Mokelumne River, east of Rio Vista. Then, the determined fish had to make their way up to where the Mokelumne meets the Cosumnes River, and finally, migrate several miles more to get to the shady shores of Deer Creek.
California Growin’
California Secretary of Agriculture Karen Ross on automation, GMOs and water use
California Department of Food and Agriculture Secretary Karen Ross is far more than just an administrator. Ross grew up on a farm in Nebraska, where she and her husband still own an 800-acre farm and ranch. We sat down with her to talk about the challenges and opportunities currently facing the Golden State’s agricultural industry.
Tech Crunch
Nevada County companies are in desperate need of techies — here’s how they’re cultivating a new workforce
In 2016 business and government leaders in Nevada County had an “ah-ha” moment: A report, commissioned by the Nevada County Economic Resource Council in coalition with the Northern Rural Training and Employment Council, showed stakeholders that the county’s local workforce needed easy access to tech-based skills.
Buzzwords: Pivot
Generally refers to a shift in entrepreneurial approach; describes the strategy most businesses employ to find the right customer, value proposition and positioning
For this month’s column, I thought I’d reach out to people who made multi-tasking an artform and get them to explain how they so easily “pivot” from one task to another on a daily basis. But I found out that’s only one definition of pivot, and so I pivoted this column to another, more business-oriented version. (See what I did there?)