Good Job

 

“This job has always been more than a paycheck to me. I don’t want my kids to grow up in a society without a free and robust press — one that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable. If I can play a part in keeping that alive for my hometown, a place I love with my whole heart, then I’m happy to do that for a long as they let me.”

—Beth Kassab, reporter and section editor, The Orlando Sentinel, “Once again, Tribune wants veteran journalists to leave. Here’s why we haven’t . . . yet,” Orlando Sentinel, Jan. 17, 2020.

  

• Editorial Comment: Do-gooder. 

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Carson Mansion, Eureka, CA

  

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