In The Way We Work, we track the routines of local executives. Here’s how Kelley Cowan oversees multiple construction projects.

Amid the ongoing pandemic, several tribes in the Capital Region are either building new casinos or undertaking significant expansions of existing operations.

In The Way We Work, we track the routines of local executives. Here’s how UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May runs a campus of 39,000 students.

Kirk DeJesus, the new director of the Port of Stockton, is aware that most people, even neighbors in the Bay Area and the Capital Region, don’t know anything about his deepwater port.

During her tenure as Sacramento councilwoman and mayor pro tempore, Angelique Ashby has played a role in some major developments for the city.

The regional business of entertainment, arts and sports is reemerging with new structures and outlooks in place.

Jessica Law became executive director of the Water Forum in January. Comstock’s spoke to Law about the group’s priorities as the region deals with another drought. 

A new generation of entrepreneurs is bringing fresh concepts to restaurant and bar spaces that shuttered in 2020.

Comstock’s spoke to Visit Sacramento Brand and Community Engagement Director Karlee Cemo-McIntosh about how the organization has taken advantage of new opportunities over the past year.

With daytrip-worthy destinations in the Capital Region, wine enthusiasts no longer need to pay the higher prices and drive to Napa to get a world-class winery experience.

For more than three decades, the Ronald McDonald House Charities and the McDonald’s Corporation helped to define Ramirez, who became a franchisee in Galt in 1988.

After 15 years as a Major League Baseball player for five teams, Greg Vaughn now focuses on Vaughn’s Valley Foundation.

Roger Valine joined VSP in 1973 and worked his way up from being a management trainee to become the driving force as the CEO of the Rancho Cordova company.

In December 2019, a few months before the fastest drop in global stock markets in financial history, Mark Otero launched Alice Capital, a hedge fund designed to bypass emotion. 

Ron Cunningham and Carinne Binda were co-directors of the Sacramento Ballet from 1988 to 2018. Since then, life has looked different.

MCC Communications founder Michele McCormick is a model, actor and photographer who specializes in travel and nature photography.

Pam Marrone, who retired as CEO of Marrone Bio Innovations in 2020, didn’t take a break; she still works 10-12 hour days.

Carl Landau had spent 37 years in publishing and event organizing when he decided to launch Pickleball Media last year.

On Oct. 12, 2020, hair-care brand R+Co came to the Federico Advanced academy in Sacramento to present R+Co Drive-In, a socially distanced drive-in and livestreamed educational hairstyling event.

While large companies often have shareholders and untold numbers of employees to satisfy, family businesses can maneuver more deftly and swiftly, powering through as best they can.

Smaller, independent hospitals are at risk of closing due to financial strain exacerbated by the pandemic. 

These six Capital Region higher-education projects, completed in the last decade, offer inspired and intentional learning spaces.

Corey Sholes, a self-described skateboard fanatic, was 18 years old when he cut his first skateboard. Eventually, he started pressing his own boards using a vacuum press system, and making handcrafted boards became his full-time job and his business, Legend Skateboards, in 1994.

Since the Industrial Revolution, the myth of the American Dream has centered around cities. As the story goes, the most promising rural youth leave their hinterland homes to seek their fortunes in the metropolis, perhaps never to return. 

Part of this month’s Rural Living series

Several public and private sector partnerships are helping to position the Capital Region as a leader in the new mobility revolution. 

Part of this month’s Innovation issue