Local News in Stanislaus County

Editor’s Corner: The disappearing of the Valley’s Bees is a crisis — not the end of local journalism

When I worked at The Modesto Bee, one of the gallows humor jokes we used to make about the company’s current owner, Chatham Asset Management, was that at least we worked for the “less evil” hedge fund. Between 2011 and 2019, private investment funds’ stake in our country’s…