
Former Managing Editor at The Press Democrat and @NorthBayNews
Santa Rosa, California
Joined December 2008
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Here are 10 items for any editor’s 2021 to-do list.
Resolutions for Editors, No. 1: To remember it’s not your byline on the story. Also, ask yourself: “Am I making this better, or just different?”
#editing #writing #NewYearsResolutions
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Cannabis tourism has arrived in California. Sonoma County leaders are asking what role marijuana will play in this wine country's $2 billion tourism sector. Visitors already seem to know. Photos @kentphotos pd2go.net/eoEVPT
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Why is cannabis, California's most lucrative cash crop, not part of yearly county agriculture reports? In Sonoma County, that's a $95.8 million omission pd2go.net/AxxIsi
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Exchange Bank remains profitable in Q1, despite decline from big quarter in 2018 fueled by one-time gains from real estate sales
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Costeaux French Bakery opens to-go cafe at Sonoma County Airport pd2go.net/4jOxqG
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Led by Napa & Sonoma, North Coast grape crop hits record with $2 billion harvest pressdemocrat.com/business/9…
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Update: #PGE stock soars 74% Thursday to close trading at $13.95 per share, after #California utility gets cleared of causing fatal #Tubbs fire in October 2017 in Northern California #Calfire #wildfires #wallstreet @NorthBayNews pressdemocrat.com/news/92078…
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BREAKING: @CAL_FIRE says the #Tubbsfire was caused by private power equipment on residential property, not @PGE4Me. No violation of state law found by investigators. Fire killed 22 people, destroyed more than 5,000 structures. pd2go.net/YymQHC
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United president: Daily Denver flight could lead to more Sonoma County service pd2go.net/L94JKQ
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Noted regional economist Christopher Thornberg: #Sonoma #County needs to keep building homes to continue post-wildfire recovery @NorthBayNews pressdemocrat.com/business/8…
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The sale of @smarttrain owned land to a local developer for $6.7M could finally mean transit-oriented housing at a long vacant @CityofSantaRosa lot.
SMART selling property next to downtown Santa Rosa station pd2go.net/0OXqFe
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Two former top executives at Sonoma Valley Bank and an attorney for one of its largest borrowers were ordered Thursday to pay the government more than $19 million in restitution for their roles in defrauding the financial institution before its implosion.
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Hopkins says county can’t temporarily ban new winery permits pd2go.net/OVYYkl
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Attorney David Lonich of Santa Rosa was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison Friday for his role in the bad loans that brought down Sonoma Valley Bank in 2010, slightly less than the two bank officers in the case. – at San Francisco, CA
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Sonoma Valley bank Ex-vice president and chief loan officer Brian Melland was also sentenced to 8 years in prison Friday for his role in the $12 million in loans that went belly up and sunk the bank, which was shuttered by regulators in 2010. – at San Francisco, CA
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Big deal: A local judge has ordered Sonoma County to void its controversial sale of an 82-acre public property in Santa Rosa where some 870 housing units are planned. pressdemocrat.com/news/85721…
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PG&E execs called @JerryBrownGov's recent proposal to address future utility company liabilities from wildfires and other disasters "insufficient" as they reported a Q2 loss of almost $1B, via @NorthBayNews. #NorthBayFires pressdemocrat.com/news/85714…
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Q1 profits off slightly for @PGE4Me partly due to early costs of #NorthBayfires, via @NorthBayNews. pressdemocrat.com/business/8…
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Lawmakers seek to boost insurance payouts, ease itemization requirement for fire victims pd2go.net/VKmDX7




















