
Come in For a Bite
New café and patisserie opens in downtown Folsom
Owners Julian and Ashley Perrigo-Jimenez opened their new business this month in Folsom, Julian’s hometown. The couple says they want to provide customers with a welcoming atmosphere, in an elegant interior, where they can enjoy the smells of baked goods and fresh coffee.

How to Build Your Team
Such important work requires patience and ongoing communication
The single biggest strategic advantage you have when it comes to outperforming your competitors is a highly effective team. A great team wins. Now let’s examine what teams look like when they are not working well:

Drought-to-Drenched California Faces H20 Balancing Act
Rain has finally been falling hard in California, where reservoirs are filling up fast.

Supervisors Taking Up the Urban Ag Vote
Sacramento County considers changes to allow for urban farming
In 2012, Valenzuela Garcia helped form the Sacramento Urban Agriculture Coalition to change laws that impede urban farming by first identifying the political barriers to growing food in this environment. The long list included issues such as holding farm stands on residential sidewalks, raising chickens and keeping beehives.

Powering a Skilled Workforce
Energy partnership equips Sierra College students with hands-on experience in solar array installation
The edge of a Placer County landfill is the unlikely home for an energy partnership that powers homes and fuels jobs for Sierra College students. But that’s exactly what happens at the Western Regional Sanitary Landfill in Lincoln.

Business Planning 101: The Freelance Edition
Freelance life: Keep your momentum going for freelance success in 2017
Freedom and flexibility is what this career path is all about. While we’re blazing our own trail as freelancers and solo entrepreneurs (I like to call us “solopreneurs”), we’re still running a business. And like any business owner will tell you, you need a plan of attack.

Unsettled
Housing crunch in Truckee and north Tahoe leaves workers with a long commute home
The housing crunch is a problem affecting both the working class and the professional class. Workers move to the area lured by lucrative resort jobs, then find themselves stuck when the cost of housing nearly outstrips their pay.

A Mighty Task
Roseville City Manager Rob Jensen on managing one the area’s fastest-growing cities
Roseville City Manager Rob Jensen oversees the Capital Region’s only full-service city, a task that comes with managing a $500 million budget, 15 departments and over 1,200 employees. We sat down with him to talk about the challenges and opportunities facing one of the area’s fastest-growing cities.

5 Ways to Stay Safe at Work
We spend a large portion of our lives at the office, so whether it’s having multiple evacuation routes out of your building or routinely checking cords and heaters, office safety is not something we should take for granted.

#MyArtofBeer Contest
Attention craft beer lovers and connoisseurs! We’re back at it again with the #MyArtofBeer photo contest. With Sacramento’s booming craft beer scene, there are plenty of places to sit down and slam a cold one. Show us how and where you like to sip and you could be imbibing some of the best brewskies at the 6th Annual Art of Beer Invitational!