The California fires this year have been especially vicious, two of the worst fires ever in state history happening at the same time. We are following the happenings from afar, but at the same time we feel right in the middle. What we’ve been enjoying so much during the last few months, our refuge in the outdoors, has suddenly been taken from …
Steve’s Blog: We Need More Books by African American Journalists
It’s an odd thing, suggesting to friends books they ought to write. I remember my last year on the A’s beat, covering the team for the San Francisco Chronicle, being in a bar somewhere in the Midwest (Cleveland?) and telling my opposite number on the beat, Howard Bryant of the San Jose Mercury News, that I for one would love to …