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October is the last chance for most Americans to register if they want to vote for president this year. But 86 million eligible Americans, or one-third of the national total, can even sign up — and then proceed to cast a ballot — on Election Day.
"The Extra Point with Jeff Marston" is aired weekly on Mightier 1090am from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday. In this episode, Marston talks to Chris Carver from Lennd and Erik Groset from Fantasy Sports Co. about how they are keeping their businesses alive despite the drop in professional sporting events. Plus, Marston talks about a post-COVID-19 office space and more.
Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang has added his voice behind the growing movement for systemic political and electoral reform in the US. Yang joined FairVote Senior Fellow and author David Daley for a webinar to discuss his support for ranked choice voting and why he believes it will lead to greater competition, fairness, and policy diversity in elections.
Californians are voting on 12 propositions, but not all are funded equally. Just take a look at that fat slab of lilac in the graphic below.
Facebook is fighting to survive the information war. Every four years Americans get to pass judgement on the nation’s most powerful politician. Unlike many other nations we can, and do, remove or re-appoint these men on a regular schedule.
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%.
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Although the pandemic presents many new risks for organizations, this can also be a good time to adopt strategies to reduce harassment and prevent conflict and violence now and over the long term as we continue to shift into the new world of work.
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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.
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.”
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.”