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It was David Mering’s turn to share. On a conference call in March 2020 with a group of independent advertising agencies, he looked a bunch of other CEOs in their virtual eyes and confessed that COVID-19 put Mering, the Sacramento-based branding company he founded in 1985, in a chokehold. It was tough to admit. Other owners had shared minor updates, nothing catastrophic. But most of Mering’s clients came from the travel industry, so the agency (whose motto is “We move pe...

Stockton City Council discussions at its regular meeting Tuesday evening included issues such as additional federal COVID-19 funding, a homeless housing grant and the renovation of McKinley Park. A resolution to accept an Enterprise Community Partners philanthropic grant of more than $680,000 to cover the operating costs of Town Center Studios, new housing for chronically homeless Stockton and San Joaquin County residents, was included in the meetings consent agenda. The city received a ...