
Back and Forward: Diane Miller
President of Wilcox Miller & Nelson on executive recruitment
Diane Miller, president of Wilcox Miller & Nelson, offers her insight into executive recruitment.

An Entrepreneur Needs to Ask These Five Questions
Resilience and risk are must-have traits to secure support for your entrepreneurial vision.

Navigating Mental Health Conditions in the Workplace
Chantal Allen-Jarrell, Sacramento County Health Educator, interviews Bill Marr of Stop Stigma Sacramento
One in five adults in this country will experience a diagnosable mental illness during their lifetime. Here, in Sacramento County, an estimated 300,000 residents are living with mental illness, which impacts every ethnic, racial, cultural, economic, religious, gender, sexual orientation and age group.

Back and Forward: Mark Murray
Executive director of Californians Against Waste on curbing plastic waste
Mark Murray, executive director of Californians Against Waste, offers his insight into the plastics industry.

Counterpoint: Rent Control Would Do Major Harm to Sacramento’s Future
Economists agree that rent control leads to a decline in the quantity and quality of housing.

Back and Forward: John C. Webre
Dreyfuss + Blackford Architecture president on civic architecture
Dreyfuss + Blackford Architecture President John C. Webre offers his insight into civic architecture.

Point: Sacramento Needs Rent Control
Sacramento stands at a crossroads. Will it remain a place where teachers, firefighters, nurses and retail clerks can live in the same city as the people they serve? Will Sacramento maintain its identity as a diverse city; a place to put down roots and raise a family? Or will it succumb to the fate of other metropolitan areas, where the people who work to make our city run can’t afford to live here?

What’s In the News?
This month, for the second year in a row, I’ll mentor Sacramento State students in the State Hornet Digital Academy, designed to supplement journalism coursework and prepare students for the always-changing media landscape. Based on last year’s experience, these students are eager, dedicated and brimming with ideas. But I worry about what kind of industry they’ll be fighting their way into when they graduate.

Apprenticeship Programs Need More Students
Apprentices offer a much-needed path to quality, high-paying careers.

A New Market
Sacramento pot czar Joe Devlin on how the city is adopting legal cannabis
Joe Devlin, Sacramento’s first chief of cannabis policy and enforcement chats about what can be expected in the near future for legal cannabis in Sacramento.