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Makers Wanted
As American manufacturing struggles and California employers face worker shortages, will investment in educational makerspaces help strengthen local industry?
California remains a top manufacturing center in the U.S. despite local employers grappling with a serious worker shortage. Will state investment in makerspaces help fill the need?
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Back and Forward: Steve Dicus
Sacramento Valley Manufacturing Initiative representative on the local workforce
Steve Dicus, co-chair of the Sacramento Valley Manufacturing Initiative’s education committee, offers his insight into the Capital Region’s manufacturing industry.
![Gladding, McBean, a terra cotta manufacturing company in Lincoln, mines from a clay deposit that keeps on giving. The company has mined from the same deposit since opening in 1875, and which still likely contains more than 100 years worth of material, says Jamie Farnham, national sales manager.](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/0418_dept_snap_embed1_kj.jpg?1577874530)
Carefully Crafted
Gladding, McBean, a terra cotta manufacturing company in Lincoln, mines from a clay deposit that keeps on giving.
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Wonder Women
Comstock’s celebrates six extraordinary women of influence who are redefining leadership on their own terms.
We’re highlighting six of the Capital Region’s most influential female leaders who are blazing trails in their respective industries.
![Shiloh London with Keri Askew Bailey, senior VP of government relations and policy at the California Grocers Association.](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/0318_dept_taste_embed2_jc.jpg?1577874530)
Run With It
Shiloh London began overseeing the California Grocers Association Educational Foundation five years ago - here's what she's done
Shiloh London is an early riser of the extreme variety. She wakes up at 4 a.m., spends a few minutes in silence over black coffee, laces her sneakers and literally trains for a marathon. Afterward she connects with her running mates over coffee — all before a full day’s work.
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Startup of the Month: Tenkiv
With the power of the sun, Sacramento startup aims to make waves by purifying water
Around the world, 2.1 billion people lack safe drinking water at home. This Sacramento startup aims to make a difference.
![At the start of harvest in October, a Boundary Bend employee runs a test load of reject fruit. In 2014, the Australia-based Boundary Bend set up its U.S. olive oil operations on 8.8 acres in Woodland under the name Cobram Estate. (Photo by Fred Greaves)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/1117_feat_agriculture_lead_fredgreaves.jpg?1577874530)
The Woodland Way
With a progressive pro-business climate, Woodland lures agribusiness and global trade to this once-sleepy town
This once rural town now houses more than two dozen international companies and has become a hub of agribusiness, thanks to its progressive pro-business climate and ideal location.
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Shared Growth
Industry clusters offer a pathway to innovation
Like attracts like. It’s the principle belief behind the law of attraction, which states that people tend to seek out or be attracted to those who are similar or like-minded. The same idea can be applied to the business world, in that companies often gather — or cluster — around their successful peers in hopes of sharing services while improving efficiency and productivity.
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Point of View
Board members of Greater Sacramento share their thoughts on doing business in the region
Comstock’s checked in with some of our business and civic leaders to find out their development plans for the region, and how the Greater Sacramento Economic Council can help bring those goals to fruition.
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An Easy Sell
Companies, both homegrown and new transplants, find success in the Capital Region
When it comes to finding business success in the Sacramento area, the proof, as they say, is in the proverbial pudding. The city’s proximity to the Bay Area, its lower cost of living and its people have long been lauded as assets to economic development. While that might seem like a tired line of thinking, Sacramento remains on the radar of both potential businesses and employees for exactly those reasons.