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Bill Stall dies at 71; Pulitzer-Prize winning editorial writer for The Times

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on November 14, 2008 at 1:55 pm

Thank you to Mike Gardner for sending me this link along to me, referring to Bill as “a helluva reporter well-known among water buffalos and a great guy”. From the Los Angeles Times:

William R. Stall, a longtime staff member of the Los Angeles Times who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 2004, died Sunday at his home in Sacramento. He was 71.

Stall had been in failing health much of the year and died of complications from pulmonary disease, according to Times columnist George Skelton, a friend and colleague.

In his nearly 50-year journalism career, Stall focused on reporting government and politics, natural resources and the environment. He followed nearly every California governor since Ronald Reagan was sent to Sacramento in 1967 through the recall of Gray Davis and the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Pulitzer board said that his editorials on California’s troubled state government “prescribed remedies and served as a model for addressing complex state issues.” The editorials, written in October, November and December 2003, may be found on The Times’ website at latimes.com/billstall.

“Bill’s legacy is his work,” Jim Newton, the editorial page editor of The Times, said Sunday. “He was an incisive analyst of California government and politics whose writing on those subjects is as current today as it was when he wrote it — testament to his prescience as well as to the enormity of the subjects he tackled. We’d be a better state if more people had listened to him at the time.”