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Written by Pacific Coast Business Times
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Sunday, 14 June 2009 |
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Running a Workforce Investment Board is not glamorous work. It means fulfilling the requirements of EDD on a local level and shepherding a rising number of unemployed through the system.
But Cheryl Moore at the Ventura County WIB has found ways to innovate in a tradition-bound bureaucracy.
She’s helped build a new alliance among Central Coast WIB organizations. She’s developed a program for youth unemployment that holds out the promise of helping kids get better exposure to the workplace before they graduate from high school.
We’re pleased that the Ventura County Leadership Academy will honor her with one if its Spotlight on Leadership awards this year. And we’ll also extend our congratulations to Waste Management and Fred Robinson of ARC Ventura County, her co-honorees.
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With pundits, politicians and even Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak piling on Toyota Motor Co. over acceleration problems with U.S. and European models, I turned to one of the experts in quality and consumer preferences.
Hayes Commercial Group in Santa Barbara just released its year-end report, with some grim numbers that just go to prove 2009 is best left forgotten.
