How valuable was Cindy Robinson to a sports section? Well, I hired her five times, if that gives you any indication. Yes. Five. In violation of Gannett corporate policy at least a couple of times. (You get two bites of the apple in Gannett, unless you get special dispensation.) As far as I was concerned? […]

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Live long enough, and you pick up on some trends. If you’re paying even the slightest attention. You don’t have to be some sort of sage, doling out pearls of wisdom. Just a regular old person with his eyes open and his memory intact. And with that prelude, let’s get to the point of this […]

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After a run of dopey and self-destructive San Bernardino Sun newsroom personnel decisions, many of which have been chronicled here, they got some right this week. George Watson has been promoted to city editor, and the venerable Wes Hughes is being brought back to work on the city desk. Watson was perhaps the last city-side […]

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