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

Happy Holidays, everyone! An out-of-town friend and I started a new tradition this year: reading Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol to each other, in its entirety via video chat. As the process got underway, my friend, ever the clever one, said I should record it for my students, their parents, family, and friends. And so I have. Published in 1843 to help Dickens get out of debt, the novella endures as a Christmas staple, and has never gone out of print in more than 180 years