Sean Scully is editor of the Napa Valley Register. You can reach him at 256-2246 or sscully@napanews.com. Follow him on Twitter at @NVREditor.

Thomas Elias writes the syndicated California Focus column, appearing twice weekly in 93 newspapers around California, with circulation of over 2.2 million.

Dan Walters writes for The Sacramento Bee. His column appears in dozens of California newspapers. He joined the Sacramento Union’s Capitol bureau in 1975 and in 1981 began writing the state’s only daily newspaper column devoted to California political, economic and social events.