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Guest Commentary


| Friday, March 31st, 2017

Tri-county nonprofits need to adapt, innovate

Higher Education, Latest news, Nonprofits, Op/Eds, Opinion

By Charles Maxey and Linda Kimbrough Trump administration budget proposals should be sending early warning signals to the nation’s nonprofit organizations. The anticipated reductions in federal and, therefore, state spending will adversely impact many populations served by charitable organizations. At the same time, the need for services continues to rise. Nonprofit Finance Fund’s 2014 study Read More →

| Friday, March 31st, 2017

Community programs should not be chopped

Latest news, Op/Eds, Opinion, Small Business, Women Inc.

By Marsha Bailey If you don’t speak acronym, you may not know what a “CDBG” or a “CDFI” is. You’re even less likely to know how these federal government programs, both of which are on the chopping block, impact you and your community. The Community Development Block Grant Program is a U.S. Department of Housing Read More →

| Friday, March 17th, 2017

Workforce trends challenge for tri-county employers

Latest news, Op/Eds, Opinion

By Vlad Vaiman To formulate and implement a meaningful talent management strategy in an organization, its top leaders need to understand current workforce trends. These include a rapidly aging population, increased workplace diversity, significant skill deficiencies and employees’ changing attitudes. The rapidly aging U.S. population is felt in virtually all occupations. Even though the overall Read More →

| Friday, March 10th, 2017

Gene technology raises ethical questions

Health Care & Life Science, Latest news, Op/Eds, Opinion

By Frank Kalman A relatively obscure talk about genes was given at UC Santa Barbara recently by Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, a researcher and clinical oncologist at Columbia University and author of a Pulitzer Prize winning book, the “Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.” It was, however, on par in terms of gravity with Read More →

| Friday, March 3rd, 2017

Letter to the editor: Stop asking Trump to release tax returns

Latest news, Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Dear Editor: When I read your commentary, “Time for Trump to release tax returns, explain Russian ties” (Feb. 17 issue), I couldn’t believe my eyes. The editor of a business-oriented periodical spouting left-wing conspiracy theories and repeating fake news. Let me start by sharing my opinion that President Trump is a friend of the workingman Read More →

| Friday, March 3rd, 2017

Fienup: At last, an end to the ‘New Normal’

Latest news, Op/Eds, Opinion, Tri-County Economy

By Matthew Fienup There is one clear lesson from the first 30 days of the Trump economy. The so-called “New Normal,” a belief in the inevitability of poor economic performance following the Great Recession, is now dead. I wish I could also say that a return to robust economic growth is just around the corner Read More →

| Friday, February 24th, 2017

Requests for proposals overlook value of face-to-face communication

Latest news, Op/Eds

I’ve been in business for more than 30 years and in that time I’ve hired quite a few people. But in all that time, not once, did I hire a person based strictly on their resume and certainly I’ve never hired anyone without having met them first. In every instance, I felt it was important, Read More →