Sacramento Press Corps Loses Another Veteran

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

The Capitol's ever-dwindling press corps is losing its top investigative reporter. Kimberly Kindy of the San Jose Mercury News/News Media Group, is taking a job at the national political desk of the Washington Post.

That's a dream job for any journalist. It will suit Kindy well.

Kindy, who moved to the Mercury News after the Orange County Register downsized its Sacramento bureau, has penned stories that have shut down a state agency, changed policies and led to new laws. Her most recent series of the Schwarzenegger Administration's fumbling of the state's vehicle fleet's attempt to improve fuel efficiency tied the administration in knots. When I was working for Governor Davis, Kindy also had us tearing our hair out with a series of stories on day care providers.

Always tough, always fair, Kindy should have a field day at the Washington Post, with its resources and its prestige. But the Sacramento press corps will lose one of the only reporters it has that has the leeway to go beyond the daily press conferences and day-to-day goings on in the Capitol.