Bobby Caina Calvan

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Tallahassee
Reporter — Associated Press
Covers:  congress, us
Doesn't Cover: entertainment
Associated Press reporter in Tallahassee, Florida. With or without a check mark, I’m the real me. Berkeley grad. From the land of aloha. DMs open.

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Washington-based journalist who has worked in some of the country's best newsrooms. Currently a reporter for the Boston Globe in the nation's capital. I'v covered most everything there is to cover. At the Sacramento Bee, I covered health care, did a stint on the copy desk, and covered the Iraq war for McClatchy Newspapers in 2007.

I grew up on a dairy farm, located on the southeastern flanks of the majestic Koolau Mountains. I attended high school in Honolulu, then jetted to New York City to at…

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With South Carolina done, bring on March Madness. More fun than filling out NCAA brackets?
In the cockpit with instructor ⁦@TroyKinsey⁩ for first flight lesson, with ⁦@RenzoDowney⁩ around to cover the story. pic.twitter.com/708sGecclo
@EricVey @PeterSchorschFL Nuclear bomb? I think those would be Heaven’s bells if I heard ‘em.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Instead of working on the college paper, I was paid to write for a twice-weekly newspaper in the tiny city of El Cerrito, near Berkeley.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Ahh, yes, that relic of journalism past. I've heard rumors of this ancient technology and the agony of death by paper cuts.

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Lou Grant.