How to Create a Safe Workplace That Reflects Your Company’s Culture

This is an independent opinion. Have one of your own? Email it to hoa@ivn.us

Now is certainly an interesting time to design an office from scratch. Doing so, in the midst of a pandemic, means doing your best to predict what a workplace will look like and feel like post-COVID-19. 

Here’s the thing – no one yet is an expert in the post-COVID-19 world, let alone the workplace. 

The Two-Party Doom Loop: 'This Is How Our Democracy Will Die'

In this episode of UnRig It,” Independent Voter News Editor Shawn Griffiths talks with Unite America Executive Director and National Association of Nonpartisan Reformers Board Member Nick Troiano about the peril the country is in under the two-party “Doom Loop.”

Workout Workaround: How Gyms are Getting Themselves Reclassified as ‘Essential’

As the pandemic forced Terry Delamater’s two Bakersfield-area fitness centers to shut down for months, the pharmacist-turned-gym-owner in desperation turned to his county supervisor for help. Maybe, Delamater suggested, the gyms could reopen as an essential business?

After all, Delamater said, he had kept up his pharmacist license. And he and his daughter had been working since last year with a national organization, the Medical Fitness Association, to certify the Sculpt 365 gyms as “medical fitness centers.”

CTC Chair Hilary Norton Reflects on Sea Change in State Transportation Priorities

In this TPR interview, Hilary Norton, newly appointed chair of the California Transportation Commission, reflects on the ‘phenomenal sea change’ driving state investments in transportation infrastructure and in advance of the 2020 national election. Citing Governor Newsom’s “all of the above” approach, Norton shares her priorities for the CTC and enthusiasm for creative projects that maximize benefits—and generate revenues—to support a more active and equitable vision for transportation in California.