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Type your email… Subscribe I’m a sucker for a rebrand. Over the years, I have rebranded this website, and the posts I put on it, so many times that it’s hard to even attempt to count. With thousands of subscribers who have joined over the years, I’m sure that’s been jarring. There was a time when I just posted about being a mom. Times when it was all about anecdotal complaints about marriage…

Hard Truths is a monthly newsletter about national, state, and local issues, with (sometimes sassy, other times serious) personal updates from the author – Heather Schmidt, M.PA. Heather is the owner of Heather Christena Schmidt Community Consulting, President of VC Voter Edge, and a busy Mom to three. Type your email… Subscribe Well. We survived another month without getting nuked off the…

Hard Truths is a monthly newsletter about national, state, and local issues, with (sometimes sassy, other times serious) personal updates from the author – Heather Schmidt, M.PA. Heather is the owner of Heather Christena Schmidt Community Consulting, President of VC Voter Edge, and a busy Mom to three. Type your email… Subscribe Normally, I center these monthly newsletters around recent…

The public-nonprofit-private relationship is essential to the fulfillment of services needed by the general public at any given time. Though, over time, the privatization of government has led to entirely new views on just how we define the public. This Policy Memo outlines both the different ways governments now view the public, and policy solutions to refocus attention on a more egalitarian…

Hard Truths is a monthly newsletter about national, state, and local issues, with (sometimes sassy, other times serious) personal updates from the author – Heather Schmidt, M.PA. Heather is the owner of Heather Christena Schmidt Community Consulting, President of VC Voter Edge, and a busy Mom to three. Type your email… Subscribe National Nonsense I’ve mentioned before, and I’ll mention it…

Hard Truths is a monthly newsletter about national, state, and local issues, with (sometimes sassy, other times serious) personal updates from the author – Heather Schmidt, M.PA. Heather is the owner of Heather Christena Schmidt Consultations, President of VC Voter Edge, and a busy Mom to three. Type your email… Subscribe We are eight days into the new year, and it feels as though an entire…

Type your email… Subscribe I’m starting the new year off right over here, with a new Policy Brief addressing the sticky and increasing problem of fraud in government. Fraud and corruption often go hand in hand, and have certainly been around in some form forever. However, many factors have complicated addressing it, and with the rise of social media and the American public’s general awareness…

Hard Truths is a monthly newsletter about national, state, and local issues, with (sometimes sassy, other times serious) personal updates from the author – Heather Schmidt, M.PA. Heather is the owner of Heather Schmidt Consulting Services, Executive Director of VC Voter Edge, and a busy Mom to three. Type your email… Subscribe Merry Christmas, to those that celebrate, and Happy Holidays to all…

Hard Truths is a monthly newsletter about national, state, and local issues, with (sometimes sassy, other times serious) personal updates from the author – Heather Schmidt, M.PA. Heather is the owner of Heather Schmidt Consulting Services, Executive Director of VC Voter Edge, and a busy Mom to three. Type your email… Subscribe The news, in a few words: I don’t care. In all seriousness: I do…

Hard Truths is a newsletter about national, state, and local issues, with (sometimes sassy, other times serious) personal updates from the author – Heather Schmidt, M.PA., Cy.SA., C.DA. Heather is a Public Policy Advisor at Heather Schmidt Consulting Services, Executive Director of VC Voter Edge, Editor of Oxnard Gossip Column, and a busy Mom of three. Heather Schmidt Consulting Services offers…

Hard Truths is a monthly newsletter about national, state, and local issues, with (sometimes sassy, other times serious) personal updates from the author – Heather Schmidt, M.PA. Heather is the owner of Heather Schmidt Consulting Services, Executive Director of VC Voter Edge, and a busy Mom to three. Type your email… Subscribe The world: what a mess (amiright?). Let’s get into it. National…

Hard Truths is a newsletter about national, state, and local issues, with (sometimes sassy, other times serious) personal updates from the author – Heather Schmidt. Heather is the owner of Heather Schmidt Consulting Services, Executive Director of VC Voter Edge, and a busy Mom to three. Type your email… Subscribe This isn’t one of our normal newsletters, rather a special release that my team…

It would be impossible to not be aware of the events of this week. So I will not rehash them, especially given the traumatic images that we all witnessed, the complexity of the situation, and the need for conciseness. However, the political assassination of conservative activist, Charlie Kirk, the concurrent school shooting in Colorado, and subsequent bomb threats at the DNC, multiple bomb…

Hard Truths is a monthly newsletter about national, state, and local issues, with (sometimes sassy, other times serious) personal updates from the author – Heather Schmidt, M.PA. Heather is the owner of Heather Schmidt Consulting Services, Executive Director of VC Voter Edge, and a busy Mom to three. Type your email… Subscribe I hope this newsletter does not come across to you all as “man…

I’m proud to announce the completion of my consulting firm’s Policy Brief with in depth topic analysis and policy recommendations regarding Main Street Moves in Ventura, California. If you’re unfamiliar with the situation, the City of Ventura has had a portion of Main Street in the downtown region closed since the onset of the COVID 19 pandemic. This, however, has faced many challenges, with the…

Hard Truths is a monthly newsletter about national, state, and local issues, with (sometimes sassy, other times serious) personal updates from the author – Heather Schmidt, M.PA. Heather is the owner of Heather Schmidt Consulting Services, Executive Director of VC Voter Edge, and a busy Mom to three. Type your email… Subscribe National Nonsense This section is titled “national nonsense” to…

Thank you for subscribing to my newsletter. If you’re seeing this outside of subscription, consider subscribing today! Type your email… Subscribe I recently completed a white paper on the issue of regional corruption in government and politics. The raids at Glass House Farms only highlighted the importance of publishing that paper, after expanding it to discuss the potential impacts of local…