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OPINION – For small businesses like mine, success often depends on reaching the right customers at the right time with the right deals. That makes data-informed promotions – like coupons for products left in customers’ online shopping carts, or special deals for customers we’d like to reengage – a critical part of our marketing strategy.
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OPINION – SB 707 is the most significant update to California’s Brown Act since 1953. Taking effect July 1, 2026, it guarantees the right to participate remotely in city council and county board meetings, a right that briefly flourished during the pandemic before being quietly rolled back.
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OPINION – In Sacramento, I recently had the opportunity to exchange learnings from my work on youth mental health issues in Montana with advocates leading the charge in California. At a half day summit hosted by the Coalition the Empower our Future, an organization I help lead, advocates, organizations, policymakers and students came together to help answer the question, “what is driving this complex challenge, and how do we solve it together?”
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OPINION – Jim Keddy, executive director of Youth Forward, wants to protect California’s children from cannabis. So does every licensed cannabis operator in this state. That shared goal is real. Which is why the policy prescription embedded in his recent Capitol Weekly op-ed deserves serious scrutiny, because if implemented, it would make children less safe, not more.
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OPINION – For decades, firefighters could count on retiring at an age that reflected the dangers of the job. That’s no longer the case. This is an outcome that is becoming less attainable for the younger generations joining the fire service.
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OPINION – The Legislature should pass AB 1777, the California Clean Skies Act, to strengthen the state’s authority to cut diesel pollution at freight hotspots and accelerate the shift to clean, electric goods movement.
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Across the state, women help guide farms, lead research efforts, manage food safety programs and oversee operations that keep crops moving from field to market. According to the 2022 U.S. Department of Agriculture Census of Agriculture, women now account for 36% of agricultural producers nationwide.
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OPINION – AB 2215 is common-sense legislation that prioritizes administrative approval that would take the Water Board many more years to finalize. It allows for the ongoing operations of existing infrastructure.
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OPINION – Before becoming First Partner, Jennifer Siebel Newsom founded The Representation Project, a nonprofit that uses film and media to challenge “limiting gender stereotypes.” Her state office promotes identical themes. The arrangement creates a closed loop – ideology developed in the nonprofit world, amplified through a publicly funded platform, deployed into schools the governor’s budget controls.
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OPINION – Enforcement alone is not enough. We cannot prosecute our way out of a system that is structurally vulnerable to fraud.
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