I was operating from memory when I did a lengthy post on former San Bernardino Sun colleague Claude Anderson. The mass of information was correct, thank goodness, but a few facts were off a bit, and a few others I didn’t bring up at all because I didn’t know. Like how old he was when […]

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Much has been written about the deep cuts in the L.A. Daily News newsroom, the subsequent ouster of ace editor Ron Kaye, and the gutting of the once-proud Long Beach Press-Telegram (essentially reduced to a bureau of the Torrance Daily Breeze). Bad stuff. But it turns out that life as a professional journalist is even […]

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Perhaps you saw my advertisement in the San Bernardino Sun this morning. Thanks for taking the time to look me up. Since nobody bothered to tell you what happened to me, my wife thought I should take out an ad in the paper. I thought it was worth the $83.40 investment to update The Sun’s […]

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Austin Powers was a Johnny-come-lately. Jim Schulte was an International Man of Mystery a good 30 years before Michael Myers’ toothy British secret agent. Schulte may be the most memorable character out of The Sun sports department during my 31-plus years there. And character he was. Often, it was difficult to determine where the actor’s […]

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Well … I feel like it’s time I piped up here. And if y’all think he changed the course of your career/life … Anyway. We all want to pay tribute, we all want to commiserate, but mostly, I think we’d all like to see each other after all these years. I am proposing a Sun […]

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Ron Kaye is about to announce his “retirement” from the Los Angeles Daily News, according to laobserved.com. That is, he is being forced out. You can see the story here. This is another sad piece of news for print journalism in greater Los Angeles … because Kaye was the last competent editor in the benighted […]

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At the time, most of us held Gordon Coy in contempt. The smiling little old-timer was the Maynard G. Krebs of the San Bernardino Sun sports department. He knew the path of least resistance on any assignment. He was a master of mailing it in. He didn’t just half-ass his job, he no-assed it. And […]

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If I ever had a mentor, Paul Hagen was it … for all of the seven or eight months we worked together in San Bernardino. Hagen was still young when I joined the Sun-Telegram in August of 1976. He had been there three years or so, as I recall, coming out of Ohio University, as […]

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Claude Anderson was almost 54 years old on Aug. 16, 1976, my first day on the job at the San Bernardino Sun-Telegram, as the newspaper was known back then. I was just another college kid, all of 22, who thought he was pretty smart … and that Claude Anderson was some antediluvian relic who was […]

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I’ve decided to do a series of mini-bios on people with whom I worked during my 31-plus years at the San Bernardino Sun. Me and that newspaper … it’s about the past, not the present or future, and we had some fun (or at least memorable) times, and I worked with some interesting, even bizarre […]

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