Remembering Steve Swenson

BAKERSFIELD, CA - Steve Swenson may have been cancer's most formidable foe. He beat throat cancer in 2007 and had every intention of being triumphant again when he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2012. "He had a distinctive cackle that you could hear all the way across the newsroom, you know, just full of life," says Robert Price, executive editor, Bakersfield Californian.  

"He was a man to be respected, he was an expert in his trade, and he served Kern County