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This is a really sad and frankly frightening story from Capitol Weekly about Sacramento bureaus shrinking or shutting down completely. It opens with our dear former colleague Vic Pollard in a bar...
http://www.capitolweekly.net/news/article.html?article_id=1607
Angst in the Capitol press corps
By John Howard
(published July 19th, 2007)
One Friday night, eight newsies gathered at Brew It Up to drink beer and offer solace to one of their own--a veteran journalist, knowledgeable in the ways of state governance and Capitol chicanery, whose job was eliminated when his paper's Sacramento bureau was shuttered after 37 years. "I'll be taking the summer off," Vic Pollard, formerly of the Bakersfield Californian, noted wryly.
Similar scenes, but with different names, different papers and varying degrees of angst and anger, have been played out across downtown Sacramento at Pyramid, Gallagher's, Chops--even the dark and sinister Henry's. In one fete punctuated...
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