Cami Feek is no stranger to state government. Every level of it. She kicked off her career in 1996 as a mailroom clerk typist for the Department of Financial Institutions. She’s worked at General Administration, Washington State Patrol, and the attorney general’s office. She joined the Employment Security Department in 2017 and played an instrumental […]

Raised with three siblings in Ville Saint-Laurent, Susan Stern attended Sir Winston Churchill High School, graduating in 1973. Her life-long love of music led to related studies and a career in music education. A second career saw her build and run some well-known Montreal eateries, including Bistro Westmount and Sternz Rhapsody in the Cavendish Mall. Twenty-one years ago, Stern embarked on her third career as the national executive director and CEO of Weizmann Canada, a registered charity and philanthropic arm of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. The Suburban recently spoke with the Westmount resident. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.

Eight months after Indiana senators rejected President Donald Trump’s congressional redistricting push — and about three months after six Republican incumbents paid for that opposition in primary defeats — Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray announced Friday that he will give up the chamber’s top leadership position. Bray, R-Martinsville, said he will not seek reelection […]

Jason Taylor, one of New Hampshire’s two assistant child advocates, said the Office of the Child Advocate’s final report on its investigation into potential abuse and neglect at the Sununu Youth Services Center could take “certainly weeks but maybe months” to complete.  “Really, what I hope our report will talk about is the impacts of […]

Across Kentucky, a troubling pattern is emerging. Whether in healthcare, education, or non-profit organizations, board decisions are increasingly being questioned — not simply because difficult decisions are being made, but because stakeholders are asking how those decisions are being made. Recent events involving boards governing Fayette County Public Schools, the University of Kentucky, and the […]

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Scholarly surveys, discussions and polls have consistently revealed a clear consensus: the leadership capacity of the founding generation — Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, Hamilton and Madison — is unrivaled by any subsequent coterie of American statesman. It is true that these same academic conversations reflect agreement that Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt stand atop the list of America’s greatest presidents, with founding chief executives such as Washington and Jefferson closely on their heels, but there is, it seems, no generation of political leaders across 250 years that is comparable to those who launched the American Revolution, drafted the Declaration of Independence and wrote the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.