Author: Hipolito

Networking for Business – What do you have to offer?

Hipolito Navarrete, Managing Editor/Publisher I remember when I first started looking for a job, I was `17 turning 18 in high school and one of my friends asked me if I could handle working in a small room counting money. I have no idea how I eventually ended up doing that for I don’t remember how long, and I don’t even remember when and how the job ended. I just remember going on the weekends and being in a small room for 8 hours counting and dealing with one of the ladies who smoked like a chimney. I have...

Read More

Help Wanted: Seeking Leaders to Break Shatterproof Ceiling

By Diana Rodriguez, Board Member, Sacramento City Unified School District November 12, 2016 Dear Friends, Although there are many ways one can analyze the situation, I am choosing a theme that would hopefully resonate with most. This is my reflection on the 2016 Presidential Election. To Everything There is a Season 1 To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: 2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; 3 A time to kill, and a...

Read More

Almost 100,000,000 People of Color in the US

By Hipolito Navarrete, Managing Editor/Publisher So with close to around 100,000,000 people of color in the US, how is it that some of the more racist aspects of the US community feel comfortable to threaten them with intimidation through promise of violence and with perceived impunity? Although many of these folks voted from the fear of losing an America that they recognize and feel comfortable with, and it falls on us to reach out to them and include them in our lives, as California and New York have done, to help them understand that we are here because we...

Read More

The President Elect Trump Candidacy Is Full of Lessons, Pay Attention

By Hipolito Navarrete, Managing Editor/Publisher For those that opposed a Trump presidency, that train left the station. He tapped in to a complex web of fears and prejudices from folks of all walks of life. They responded to several things, to his promise to make things better, folks affixed the “things” to whatever they hope he will change for their personal betterment, and to create a better economy. He placed a blank white board for any one to write what they felt they saw. They ignored warnings from those that saw his candidacy as a joke, which it never...

Read More

Your Vote is Your Strategic Tool

By Hipolito Navarrete, Managing Editor/Publisher As the world’s population becomes larger and less sustainable, the conceptual economy keeps expanding the divide between those that create and those that produce. As an example, Robotics has become a tremendously attractive and lucrative opportunity for a small group of folks, as the technology economy in general has proven itself to be. Many times, those two groups of owners are one and the same. This is one of the results of a system that separates people through a financial divide. Opportunities to develop skill sets that would allow a child from a poor...

Read More