Ed Goldman

Feb 19, 2025 | comstocksmag.com | Ed Goldman

This story is part of our February 2025 issue. To subscribe, click here. While many of us believe that Sacramento’s light rail trains were innovative when they began tooting their way throughout the Capital Region in the 1980s, the current system is actually the reboot of a suburban trolley that slid, wended and awoke its way through the area many decades before.

Jan 22, 2025 | comstocksmag.com | Ed Goldman

David Oorbeck, a self-taught weaver and clothing designer, is showing his visitors a handsome sweater with quite a literal pedigree, if you love dogs. “One of my clients, a lovely lady in Marin, had a Samoyed she loved very much,” he explains, beaming because he loves the story. “She groomed him every day since she was a child. And when the dog died a couple of decades ago, she had it sheared and saved the hair. Then she had it spun into yarn. And that’s what I used to weave this sweater.” He laughs.

Jan 7, 2025 | comstocksmag.com | Ed Goldman

The celebrated developer, rancher, farmer, winegrower, Western art collector, humanitarian and champion carriage racer is friends with electeds from both sides of the aisle and, notably, some of country music’s boldest-faced names, including Reba McEntire and Kenny Rogers. This story is part of our January 2025 issue. To subscribe, click here.

Nov 7, 2024 | bizjournals.com | Ed Goldman

Larger-than-life litigator and storyteller Joe Genshlea wore his joy for life, for people and for ideas as nattily as his suits. Among his many gifts was that when he died at home on Oct. 30, dozens of people felt they’d lost one of their dearest friends. Count me among them. Ours started as a warm but casual acquaintance. He would read my daily column in the Business Journal or some of my magazine pieces and send notes wittily critiquing them or expanding on one of the satirical concepts therein.

Oct 16, 2024 | comstocksmag.com | Ed Goldman

This story is part of our October 2024 issue. To subscribe, click here. If you want an immediate sense of how long Sacramento City College has been around, consider this: The United States entered into a World War the year after it was founded. The first World War. Founded in 1916, Sac City, as it’s been affectionately known for more than a century, began life as part of Sacramento High School.