[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

The struggling San Jose Mercury News has reportedly cut about 35 news positions today, including its veteran Sacramento political reporter Kate Folmar. Today's action is yet another sequence in a disturbing trend that has hit just about every newspaper in the state capital, from the powerful LA Times to the one-person bureau at the Bakersfield Californian.
 
Kate has been covering Gov. Schwarzenegger for the past several years. She's penned some in-depth pieces (the latest opus being a critique of the Governor's staffing and salaries). She also provided some of the best coverage of the 2005 special election. Lately, she's teamed up with Anthony York of Capitol Weekly and John Myers of KQED to do a weekly podcast of Sacramento political events.

by blogswarm [courtesy of Calitics: Soapblox California - Front Page]

From the blog of KQED's John Myers:

Today marks the semi-official beginning of a new feature both here at Capital Notes and, eventually, on a few other sites: a weekly podcast on California politics.

We're calling it Talking Points, and its premise is pretty simple: a weekly chat on all things political from three Capitol reporters-- myself, Kate Folmar of the San Jose Mercury News, and Anthony York of Capitol Weekly.