Innovation Keeps San Diego’s Startup Scene Alive

Before March, VirBELA, a virtual reality company in San Diego, saw a steady flow of clients who wanted to offer their workers an engaging, remote office space. Today, the company, founded by Alex Howland and Ron Rembisz, has flared into a massive operation, seeing revenue increase by 260%. 

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.”