![NorCal Indoor Sports opened October 2009 in a former warehouse. NorCal Indoor Sports opened October 2009 in a former warehouse.](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/acw-indoor-sports-1.1.jpg?1577874530)
Industrial Reinvention
Woodland finds new uses for old buildings
When West Sacramento-based Clark Pacific went shopping for a third location to expand its precast concrete business, it found a home with a familiar name: the former Spreckels Sugar Mill, just outside Woodland.
![Peter Brundage, executive officer, Sacramento Local Agency Formation Commission Peter Brundage, executive officer, Sacramento Local Agency Formation Commission](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/img_3651.jpg?1577874531)
Civil Union
Rancho Cordova welcomes annexed land
Rancho Cordova recently celebrated the annexation of a finger of land — Folsom Boulevard east of Sunrise Boulevard and south of Highway 50 — with the rest of the incorporated city.
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Day on the Green
The political fate of climate-change legislation
For years, the debate over climate change centered almost exclusively on science: Is global warming occurring, and if so, are humans causing it? But with the economy still struggling, the argument has shifted to one of dollars and cents.
![Dr. Jan Nolta heads he stem cell program for the UC Davis Health System and directs the Institute for Regenerative Cures.
(Photo courtesy of UC Davis Health System) Dr. Jan Nolta heads he stem cell program for the UC Davis Health System and directs the Institute for Regenerative Cures.
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Stemming Out
UC Davis researchers deliver lab innovations
Dr. Jan Nolta is a whirlwind of energy, and this July morning she is blitzing through UC Davis’ brand-new Institute for Regenerative Cures, a state-of-the-art lab where scientists and researchers are working on breakthrough discoveries and stem cell therapies.
![Jerry Vorpahl, executive director and CEO, Power Inn Alliance Jerry Vorpahl, executive director and CEO, Power Inn Alliance](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/_mg_9922.jpg?1577874530)
Industrious Revolution
Sacramento's engine room transforms into a center for innovation
Transforming the Power Inn area bears a striking resemblance to the way an ancient lake transforms into a meadow. It takes a lot of infill, it happens over decades and the result can be a jewel that brings new vitality to the landscape.
![Karen Skelton, executive producer of "The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Changes Everything," and managing partner with Dewey Square Group Karen Skelton, executive producer of "The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Changes Everything," and managing partner with Dewey Square Group](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/_mg_5135.jpg?1577874530)
Balancing Act
Is the battle of the sexes over in the workplace?
For decades America has been steadily approaching a major social development — a time when the number of women in the work force would surpass the number of men. That moment has now arrived, brought on by, of all things, a recession.
![Mexican national Yulithza Ortiz (center) strands outside the Memorial Auditorium surrounded by family after his U.S. citizenship ceremony last month. Mexican national Yulithza Ortiz (center) strands outside the Memorial Auditorium surrounded by family after his U.S. citizenship ceremony last month.](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/_mg_9318_0.jpg?1577874530)
Immigration Reform
Arizona laws spark local dialogue
When Barack Obama was running for president in 2008, he vowed that if elected he would take up George Bush’s failed 2007 effort to reform the nation’s immigration policy, secure U.S. borders and provide a path to citizenship for undocumented persons who had lived in America for years. Since then, however, issues such as health care reform have pushed immigration to the back burner.
![Unemployed San Joaquin residents gather at WorkNet to hear a seminar on building a resume. Unemployed San Joaquin residents gather at WorkNet to hear a seminar on building a resume.](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/img_3759.jpg?1577874531)
Motor Runnin’
A Bay Area plant closure hits home in the Central Valley
San Joaquin County needed 3,000 more unemployed workers like it needed a hole in the head, but that’s what it got with the closing of the NUMMI auto plant in Fremont and the related layoffs at its major suppliers.
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The Family That Profits Together
When passing the torch is more than a business decision
Steve Moore, of Rex Moore Electrical Contracting, spent a decade handing over the reins of the family business to a fourth generation.
![David Butler, chief executive of Linking Education and Economic Development David Butler, chief executive of Linking Education and Economic Development](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/img_man.jpg?1577874531)
Future Work Force
What will tomorrow's jobs bring for the Capital Region?
For decades, the contours of the Capital Region economy seemed etched in stone. Government, manufacturing and construction employed the bulk of the population. After the boom and bust of the past decade, however, the job profile of the future could be almost unrecognizable.