By: Hanna Nakano
Days after the sudden and unceremonious laying off of Bob Dunning—who penned America’s longest running newspaper column, The Wary One—The Enterprise has lost it’s most popular online column, Comings & Goings.
Columnist Wendy Weitzel started Comings & Goings in 2021 to shed light on the businesses coming and going from Davis and Yolo County.
Last week, Weitzel left The Enterprise in an act of solidarity with Dunning.
A week after being laid off, Dunning started publishing his column on Substack where he’s found the support of paid subscribers from all over the country.
Substack is a platform that allows writers and journalists to publish their work on a subscription-basis, essentially bypassing the middleman-ness of the newspaper itself.
Weitzel announced her departure from The Enterprise in her final Comings & Goings column with the publication.
Like Dunning, she will continue her reporting in a direct-to-reader fashion through her new Substack.
“I’m excited about the possibilities with this Substack platform. Although the heart of my posts will be what you expect – business changes in and around Davis – there are opportunities for deeper features, and peeks into what I do and how I work,” Weitzel wrote in her first unpaid post on the platform.
