Weird experience, today. I went “home” to the building where I spent 29 years as a working professional. To the 399 North D Street offices of the San Bernardino Sun. The Sun abandoned the site in October of 2005. And sold the whole-city-block property to a Korean-born businessman named Harry Hwang. The newspaper and its […]

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James Curran was the ultimate Sun sports department prodigy. He showed up pretty much fully formed, as a writer, at the age of 16. He could report, keep statistics and file on deadline when he walked in the door. When he was barely old enough to drive. He had spent some time at a weekly […]

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We keep hearing about our presumed longevity, as a population, and our extended health and vitality. And it leads to silly statements such as “40 is the new 30” and “50 is the new 40.” And so on. Perhaps 100 is the “new” 80, for all I know. Print journalism has not embraced that concept, […]

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I have never been unemployed, before this. Actually, I was employed long before I wanted to be. My father ran a gas station in the Belmont Shore area of Long Beach, and he thought it a grand idea to take his 12-year-old son to work with him on Saturday mornings so the kid could do […]

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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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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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This was the Russo-Japanese War of newspaper collisions. Little-noted beyond the immediate participants, but messy and decisive, all the same, concluding with one side crippled and the other enormously stronger and recognized as a major regional player for the first time. The Russo-Japanese War began in 1904 and ended with Russia humiliated and on its […]

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One of the more miserable experiences a sports fan in Southern California can endure is day baseball when the sun is out. And cooking. Such as, oh, today or yesterday at Anaheim. Where the temps were pushing 100, the games were likely to last upwards of three hours and tens of thousands of people were […]

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It was a spasm of good fortune. For the newspaper, the section and for Mike Terry. It was the spring/summer of 1987. Bob Ritter was editor of The Sun. He called me into his office one afternoon and made me an offer I couldn’t refuse. Would I like to add Mike Terry to the sports […]

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This comes from one of my sources about comings and goings — well, goings, almost entirely — in the newsroom of the combined operations of the San Bernardino Sun and Inland Valley (Ontario) Daily Bulletin. Another solid middle-manager is on the way out of the Berdoo office, to be replaced by … anyone? The escapee […]

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