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Guest Commentary


| Friday, September 10th, 2021

Opinion: Oxnard was central to Chicano movement

Higher Education, Latest news, Op/Eds, Opinion

By Frank P. Barajas This column is an excerpt from the book “Mexican Americans with Moxie: A Transgenerational History of El Movimiento Chicano in Ventura County, California, 1945-1975,” by Frank P. Barajas. From the United Farm Workers Boycott Office in Delano, California, Jessica Govea, 24, examined a clipping of a full-page advertisement in the Ventura Read More →

| Friday, September 10th, 2021

Opinion: Your workers want a sense of purpose

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By Christie Garcia If staff can work from anywhere in the world, why would they work for you? Once they do, what motivates them to perform their best? And perhaps most importantly, what would make them stay? In the last year we’ve watched a dramatic shift in employee satisfaction and seen that people are no Read More →

| Friday, September 3rd, 2021

Opinion: Pandemic accelerated already rapid rise of the fluid workforce

Higher Education, Op/Eds, Opinion

By Vlad Vaiman Talent management (TM) has been a key priority for CEOs throughout the world for nearly two decades. Aging populations, shrinking talent pools, expanding skill gaps, shifting workforce mobility, and other critical considerations all contribute to TM remaining a top priority for both large and small organizations. However, it is difficult to have Read More →

| Friday, September 3rd, 2021

Opinion: Time to get serious about infrastructure

Government, Latest news, Op/Eds, Opinion

By Miranda Patton As California emerges from 18 months of COVID-19-altered life, commuters, vacationers, and freight operators are once again utilizing our highways, streets, and public transit systems. However, as mobility resumes to pre-pandemic levels, the subpar condition of our state’s infrastructure demands that it is time to commit to priority investment in local and Read More →

| Friday, August 20th, 2021

Opinion: Why this environmentalist farmer will vote to recall Gavin Newsom

Agribusiness, Government, Latest news, Op/Eds, Opinion

By Ed Seaman More than a third of Californians are living at or near the poverty level. We pay the highest income taxes and the highest gas taxes in the country. The extent of the damage that the state government has done and continues to do to our children, our small business economy, our poor Read More →

| Friday, August 13th, 2021

Opinion: Hospitals bring big questions about our ‘grand bargain’ with nonprofits

Latest news, Nonprofits, Op/Eds, Opinion

By Bruce DeBoskey The charity “grand bargain” in the United States allows nonprofit organizations to perform charitable, religious, educational and scientific duties for the “public good,” often relieving government from performing those same functions. In return for their contribution to the public good, nonprofits are deemed tax-exempt organizations, which means they typically don’t pay income, Read More →

| Friday, August 13th, 2021

Opinion: Do the right thing for our veterans

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By Ritch Eich It wasn’t until several years after the Vietnam War ended that Vietnam veterans who were exposed to toxic herbicides sprayed in the jungle were granted presumptive disability benefits for illnesses caused by exposure to Agent Orange. According to the Agent Orange Act of 1991, veterans who served anywhere in Vietnam from Jan. Read More →