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Hard Truths: March 2026
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. Normally, I center these monthly newsletters around recent…
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Hard Truths – NEW RELEASE: “That’s Private”
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…
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Hard Truths: February 2026
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. National Nonsense I’ve mentioned before, and I’ll mention…
Heather Christena Schmidt Community Consultations 