Posts Tagged: gossip

Remembering Scott Lay, 1972-2021

Scott Lay (Photo: John Howard)

by ANTHONY YORK posted 09.20.2021

In the months after California voters removed Gray Davis from office, I would roll out of bed at 5:30 a.m. and log on to find a document waiting for me. It was from Scott Lay. The document was the rough draft of that morning’s edition of The Roundup, a daily email digest of California political news and information that went to nearly 10,000 subscribers.

Capitol Weekly’s Top 100: Tales from the pandemic

Graphic by Judd Hertzler. Photo by Tim Foster

by Capitol Weekly Staff posted 08.11.2020

The atmospherics surrounding the Top 100 list vary slightly from year to year, but they usually stem from such things as elections, retirements, hires, campaign staffing, bureaucratic shuffling, news stories and who’s doing what to whom. Normally, we set up interviews in coffee shops or, better yet, taverns, and pick the brains of people who know the Capitol.  Not this year.