Earlier in March, the Stockton City Council approved $236,479 from the city's general fund to improve security measures at the near-century old building. Some questioned the fiscal common sense of the measures, when City Hall is scheduled to move to the new City Hall location at Waterfront Towers, 501 and 509 W. Weber Ave., by the end of 2025. However, Mayor Christina Fugazi said, "I want our councilmembers, as well as the staff and the public, to feel like they are in a saf

Here's a story I wrote for publication on March 19, 2025 about the Stockton City Council agreeing to enter a 20-year agreement with The Home Depot, Inc.,, which could net the city $500,000 to $1 million annually. The agreement will also create at least 100 jobs, with an additional 200 to 300 seasonal jobs, according to a report from the city presented at the March 18 meeting. The Home Depot will also create a 600,000 to 700.000 e-commerce distribution center at an as yet unsp

Here is a preview article I wrote for Stocktonia ahead of the Tuesday Feb. 18 Stockton City Council Meeting that was published on Feb. 17, 2021. This is the routine sort of coverage on which I cut my journalistic teeth back when I was a young reporter at The Californian in Salinas. The newspaper workforce has fallen sharply in the past 20 years, by as much as 77 percent, "the single steepest dive among any of the 532 industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics," acc