Right Now with Kylie Bayer (LinkedIn/Twitter) What I’m reading: The Power of Collaboration What I’m watching: Sabrina The Teenage Witch What I’m listening to: My ten-month-old puppy snoring next to me Everyone is a recruiter and employees (and former employees, more on that later) are one of your best bets in finding a great candidate for … Continued
We’ve been working on a new diversity, equity, and inclusion initiative. This new initiative has many prongs and one of the pieces I am most involved in is working toward reducing bias in job application screening. We’ll be training all of our interview panels and eliminating names from job applications. Why eliminate names from job … Continued
Right Now with Mario Smith (LinkedIn/Twitter) What I’m reading: Reading the new traffic and parking restrictions in Madrid. What I’m watching: Family Feud with my spouse. What I’m listening to: All the voices in my head telling me about the million things I need to accomplish in order to retire and transition from the military. It’s … Continued
I was selected to serve on Colorado’s Complete Count Campaign Committee, Colorado’s 2020 decennial census organizing group. I thought I knew a few things about the census as I came up to my first meeting – I’ve heard some presentations on the importance of a complete count and was aware of the financial impacts the … Continued
Right Now with Nick Smith (Linkedin/Twitter) What I’m watching: YouTube videos about completing the side missions in Red Dead Redemption 2 (I’m thisclose to being 100% done, y’all). What I’m listening to: The Hold Steady – Stay Positive Good morning, everyone! I was just reading Kendra Davis’ recent Morning Buzz trying to figure out which 500-700 … Continued
What I’m watching – our City Council’s last Priority Setting session because it will be MY job to coordinate it this year, and I need all the help I can get. What I’m reading – Heartland by Sarah Smarsh, which is such an honest, tender, unapologetic look at my home state and the people there. … Continued
What I’m Reading: Spider-Man: Enter the Spider-Verse (2018) #1 What I’m Watching: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs What I’m Listening to: When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings– Willie Watson and Tim Blake Nelson Go for the Joke! Morning Buzz with Douglas Shontz In the local government profession, we deal with important issues. These … Continued
Morning Buzz by Kirsten Wyatt What I’m Reading: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee What I’m Watching: Rewatching West Wing on Netflix What I’m Listening To: The Daily Podcast by New York Times Over the years, I’ve met people who claim to be “so busy” and can’t find any time to welcome someone new to the … Continued
Jenny Kosek, Communications Strategist for the City of West Allis, WI is taking over the Morning Buzz today to share her stories of rebranding. My city, West Allis, WI, just went through a rebranding process that was a long time in the making. In 2017, our Common Council adopted a Five Year Strategic Plan with … Continued
I’ll keeping this one short and sweet. We all know someone struggling this holiday season. And we all know someone who is struggling and holding it all in so no one knows. May we all remember that we have colleagues, co-workers and yes, even constituents we serve, who are bearing burdens this holiday season seen … Continued
