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STORY ANGLES - Focuses on local/regional impact: The reporter often highlights how broader issues (e.g., bankruptcy, avian flu, criminal cases) affect specific communities or industries in Sonoma County and the Bay Area.
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 22
- Latest publication
- Oct 2, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Mendocino Beacon
- Top 10M sites
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- Jul 11, 2026
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Sonoma County supervisor candidate says her campaign was target of violent online threat (opens the original)
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On Sept. 28, a group of prominent North Bay leaders called out a recent influx of racist, derogatory comments plaguing virtual public comment periods. Hours earlier, The Press Democrat has learned, a threat of violence was made against Joanna Paun, who is in the final weeks of her race for a seat on the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors. The threat to Paun came from a social media account that has been prolific in sending the campaign messages targeting her race and gender — she is a Black woma
Sonoma Valley's Gundlach Bundschu, California's oldest family winery, files for bankruptcy (opens the original)
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Sonoma Valley’s Gundlach Bundschu, California’s oldest continuously owned family winery, is poised to soon lose that designation under a bankruptcy restructuring that advanced this week. The winery, which began operating in the late 1850s, is the latest among a string of well-known wine producers in Sonoma and Napa counties to hit the brink of insolvency, struggling with the same downward trends in wine consumption that threaten players large and small across the region and state. The family-run
Scrutiny falls on ex-Windsor mayor's assets as jury weighs punitive damages in sex assault civil trial (opens the original)
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For eight weeks, the Sonoma County jurors selected to weigh sexual assault allegations against former Windsor Mayor Dominic Foppoli were subjected to lurid stories of manipulation, degradation and abuse. That sense of drama carried through Judge Dana Simonds’ reading of the verdict: A total of $13.1 million in compensatory damages owed by Foppoli to the seven women who sued him. Four days after that announcement, it was a different sort of scene, as the trial continued Tuesday with testimony gea
Disgraced Sonoma investment advisor Ken Mattson scores delay in fraud trial (opens the original)
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Over prosecutors’ objections, Ken Mattson has successfully delayed the start of his criminal trial from April 12 to May 3, 2027. Many of Mattson’s investors, who allegedly were defrauded out of more than $200 million by the disgraced Sonoma real estate investment adviser, have feared such an outcome since the initial trial date was set in early July. Some worry there will be additional postponements. “It’s an unnecessary delay, but consistent with Ken and his lawyers’ delay strategies,” said one
Former Windsor Mayor Dominic Foppoli liable for sexual assault, jury rules (opens the original)
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Dominic Foppoli, the former Windsor mayor and once a rising star in Sonoma County politics, on Friday, Sept. 11, was ordered to pay more than $13 million in damages to seven women who sued him over claims that he sexually assaulted each of them in a series of encounters going back to 2001. A Sonoma County Superior Court jury unanimously found in favor of each plaintiff, in awards ranging from $615,000 to $4.65 million. Virtually every “cause of action” was decided in favor of Foppoli’s accusers.
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