Background
Stall was born on February 21, 1937 in Philadelphia to parents Sidney J. and Helen R. Stall.
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He also attended Northwestern University and Johns Hopkins University, and served in the National Guard.
Career
Stall"s father worked part-time at the Sheridan Press, later owning a weekly newspaper. Stall majored in journalism at the University of Wyoming and was sports editor, and later covered city-county government, for Laramie Daily Bulletin while still in college. He was hired by the Associated Press in Cheyenne, Wyoming, later working as the Associated Press"s Reno correspondent before a move to the agency"s Sacramento, California bureau, where he was bureau chief from 1966 to 1974.
He served in the administration of Governor Jerry Brown as press secretary and director of public affairs in 1975 and 1976.
He was hired in 1976 by The Los Angeles Times reporting in the Metro section. He later covered energy policy and was assistant Metro editor before becoming a staff writer in the paper"s Washington, District of Columbia bureau.
He took a position as Washington bureau chief for the Hartford Courant. The Reinventing California editorials included "How the Engine Derailed", "Primed for Fiscal Overhaul", "Yank the "Foreign Sale" Sign", "A Legislature at War" and concluded with "Seize the Political Moment".
The Pulitzer board noted that Stall"s series of editorials "prescribed remedies and served as a model for addressing complex state issues."
Stall was also proud of a 2001 series of editorials he wrote supporting Senate Bill 221, a measure submitted by State Senator Sheila Kuehl that would require real estate developers of projects with 500 or more units to demonstrate that the homes would have access to a long-term water supply.
A lobbyist for the East Bay Municipal Utility District said that Stall"s editorials helped make the case for the legislation, overcoming opposition from the building industry. After ten years of unsuccessful efforts to pass such a bill, the proposal passed in the legislature and was signed into law by Governor Gray Davis, making California the first state in the Western United States to enact such a law. Stall died of complications from pulmonary disease on November 2, 2008 at his home in Sacramento, California.
He had been in failing health much of the year.
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the Pulitzer Prize; Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
The Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing is one of the fourteen American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Journalism.The Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing is one of the fourteen American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Journalism.