Ed Goldman
Columnist at Freelance
I write a thrice-weekly column called The Goldman State (https://t.co/xdAOGMyZwh). My new book is "Don't Cry For Me, Ardent Reader" (https://t.co/Bg7vCkRvR6)
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At 123 Years Old, McKinley Park Is the Still-Thriving Glory of East Sacramento - Comstock's magazine
1 month ago |
comstocksmag.com | Ed Goldman
This story is part of our May 2025 issue. To subscribe, click here. If you’ve been trying to pinpoint the last time you could buy a 30-acre park in one of the leafier, mixed-income areas of Sacramento for $12,500, the answer is 123 years ago.
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1 month ago |
comstocksmag.com | Ed Goldman
This story is part of our April 2025 issue. To subscribe, click here. When Robert W. Heidt, Jr., tells a visitor, “I love chambers of commerce,” he says it with his trademark enthusiasm — but, given his background, it’s also an example of profound understatement. Heidt, who became president and CEO of the Sacramento Metro Chamber of Commerce more than a year ago, has spent the better part of his adult life working for chambers.
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2 months ago |
comstocksmag.com | Ed Goldman
A district office chat with a political marathoner Back Article This story is part of our March 2025 issue. To subscribe, click here. “One thing about being small in stature is that you can surprise people when they realize how deeply concerned you are about an issue — and how much you know about it,” Doris Matsui says as she momentarily glances out the 12th-story window of her district office in the federal courthouse building named for her late husband, Congressman Robert Matsui.
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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.
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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.
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