🍊 Monday Gazette: December 23, 2024
✨This newsletter was written and scheduled before RG staff went on holiday break. We will return to regular work and
Gazette News
Dan Bernstein: Critical Questions About Riverside Go Unanswered
Former Press-Enterprise columnist Dan Bernstein champions the Raincross Gazette's bid to put a full-time reporter back at City Hall.
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Why did it take the city so long to realize it had an aging fleet of trash trucks? What lessons did the Riverside Fire Department learn from its response to the devastating Hawarden fire? Is confiscating and storing possessions an effective approach to the city’s homeless problem?
There was a time when you could have read all about it. Not anymore.
Into the void plunges the Raincross Gazette, now a toddling four years old, but aspiring to hire a full-time city hall reporter. Can the Gazette pull it off? No idea.
Is it worth trying? No question. That’s why I’m asking you to join me in contributing what you can to help make this happen.
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The Raincross Gazette is on Summer Break
The Gazette's 2.5-person newsroom is on a publishing break through the end of July. Regular publishing will resume on Monday, August 4, 2024.
The Raincross Gazette announces its first hire: Riversider Ken Crawford joins as Community Editor
Ken Crawford, native Riversider and Editor at Large for The Riversider Magazine, becomes the first new reporter hired to exclusively cover Riverside in over a decade.
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The official Raincross Gazette shop opens just in time for the holidays. Support locally woned journalism in Riverside with stylish, USA-made gear.
Introducing "The Gardner Gauge"
Former Riverside City Councilmember and current Western Municipal Water District board member Mike Gardner will write a monthly column for The Raincross Gazette.