Women in Leadership 2025: Yvonne Pire

Our annual salute to the women who lead the Capital Region

“Between working in high-pressure work environments and raising kids, by the time I was 40 I was just physically, emotionally and mentally feeling like I was exhausted and falling apart,” Pire says. “At that point, I went through a life-changing timeframe.” That’s when she envisioned The Rising Zone, a Rocklin-based event and co-working wellness center.

Mar 13, 2025 Rachel Leibrock

From Baker’s Stats to Stanzas: Jim Franks’ ‘Existential Bread’ Launches in Davis

Picking apart the stuff (seeds, stories, hoaxes) that go into what we think we know about bread

Baker and poet Jim Franks launched his experimental cookbook “Existential Bread” in Davis this week in collaboration with Student Collaborative Organic Plant Breeding Education, an interdisciplinary approach that offers a new way to consider our relationship with food and the complex processes and economics behind it.

Feb 28, 2025 Anna Dobrowolski

Artificial Intelligence Is Bringing Nuclear Power Back From the Dead — Maybe Even in California

CalMatters: Artificial intelligence uses so much energy that its rapid spread could endanger California’s goal of eliminating all carbon emissions by 2045 — even as AI companies may be flooding the state treasury with tax revenue. The conundrum has legislators considering what was once unthinkable: Bringing back nuclear power as a driver of innovation and economic growth, sort of like it was the 1960s all over again.

Jan 31, 2025 Alex Shultz, CalMatters