Center for Nonprofit Leadership E-newsletter (July 2020)
– July 2020 Edition – Serving nonprofit leaders since 1991 Working Toward Racial Justice It Starts from Within “Black Lives Matter. Period. It is painful to many in our community that the need still exists to explain what has given rise to the Black Lives Matter movement. A too-popular reply of “all lives […]
Starbucks Will Require Customers to Wear Masks While Inside Stores
BY JACK PHILLIPS All company-owned Starbucks stores will require customers to wear face masks while inside, according to a statement. “In our continued effort in prioritizing the health and well-being of partners (employees) and customers, beginning on July 15, we will be requiring customers to wear facial coverings while visiting all company-owned café locations in the U.S.,” Starbucks […]
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About White Privilege
By Wayne Allyn Root My name is Wayne Allyn Root. I’m a S.O.B. (son of a butcher). I understand this “white privilege” controversy like no one person on earth. I’ve never had it. I’ve never even had a whiff of it. That’s why I have no “white guilt.” I have nothing to be guilty […]
The Long Hard Road to Decoupling from China
ANDREW A. MICHTA It’s by now beyond clear that China is no partner to the United States. A difficult, but necessary, separation lies ahead. The era of globalization may finally be coming to an end. The Wuhan Virus and the attendant misery that the Chinese communist state has unleashed upon the world (very […]
Oxnard Attempts to Curtail Elected Treasurer’s Functions: Treasurer Takes Legal Steps to “Halt City Manager’s Vendetta to Strip Him of Duties”
By George Miller This week’s Oxnard City Council meeting on May 5, agenda item M-1, is a bold attempt to strip Elected Treasurer Phil Molina of most of his duties (see agenda summary below and detail in AGENDA PACKET starting on page 157). Worded as it is, it would strip these duties from […]
Psychologist Dr. Shannae Anderson: “We are just at the tip of the iceberg… We have a mental health epidemic”
By Michael Hernandez THOUSAND OAKS—“We ae just at the tip of the iceberg,” said Psychologist Dr. Shannae Anderson as she spoke to the Citizens Journal on Friday referring to COVID-19 deaths due to unemployment, anxiety-anger-depression, addictions, domestic violence, child abuse and suicide. “The first phase of COVID-19 has been people in fight, flight and freeze […]
Mr. President, Stop Listening to the DC Swamp Politicians, Deep State Bureaucrats and Ivy League Eggheads
By Wayne Allyn Root Mr. President, I’m one of your biggest supporters. Few have worked harder or longer to elect, support and re-elect you. Every day I praise you to my large and growing audience following me on national radio and TV, and reading my nationally-syndicated newspaper columns. My audience loves and supports you. […]
L. Neil Smith’s The Libertarian Enterprise | The Knezovitch Effect
By L. Neil Smith, The Libertarian Enterprise A couple of days ago, at a “pro-choice” protest rally in front of the Supreme Court, Democrat Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (he wants you to call him “Chuck”) ranted against two Justices, both Trump appointees, who happen to disagree with him about abortion, threatening them […]
Thousand Oaks City Council adopts local emergency resolution; appoints City Manager as Director of Emergency Services
By Michael Hernandez THOUSAND OAKS—The City Council on Tuesday ratified a Proclamation of the existence of a Local Emergency rendering certain emergency orders including the naming of City Manager Andrew Powers as Director of Emergency Services. “We are dealing with unprecedented circumstances,” said City Manager Andrew Powers. “This is a unique crisis. We have 10 […]
Thousand Oaks City Council upholds Planning Commission decision on Westlake Village wireless facility despite public hearing opposition
By Michael Hernandez THOUSAND OAKS—The City Council in a 3-2 vote upheld the Planning Commission decision to allow Verizon Wireless to build a wireless facility on the 2.51 acre property located at 4588 Sunnyhill Street, within the North Ranch community (western Westlake Village—the two-thirds portion of the community in Ventura County was annexed into Thousand […]
