Coronavirus Crisis Brings Out Newspapers Importance–and Vulnerabilities
News sites have pushed most everything aside to report and explain the pandemic that has hit the planet. But despite this service, because of the economic downfall accompanying the virus, newspapers are in jeopardy. While the image of broadcast media dominating the news-cycle is keyed by the daily televised press conferences of public officials, newspapers […]
California is Showing the Way with Minimal Federal Assistance
We are hearing a lot about “modeling” —something leading epidemiology experts use to explain the ever-changing scenarios in the novel coronavirus’s up-and-down curves. The fact is no one really knows when we can expect a dramatic downturn in either the infections or the death rates. The dangers are escalating regardless of what the graphs are […]
The Unprecedented Employer Subsidies This Week To Avoid Layoffs: The Coronavirus Workplace Series
(This is the third in a series on the impacts of the coronavirus on employment and the workplace. The first two are here and here). The federal Stimulus, approved last Friday, includes unprecedented financial incentives for employers to retain employees or bring back employees laid off after March 1, 2020. Whether they succeed or not […]
Proposed changes to Proposition 13 could devastate family farms
As a third-generation family farmer who supports and defends farming at every turn, I’m stunned that a measure headed for the November statewide ballot could result in the further disappearance of farms and farmland. Not only will the farming community directly suffer if the ballot initiative to raise property taxes by up to $12.5 billion […]