 Will Fleet and Ralph Alldredge are co-publishers.In 1999, publisher emeritus Samuel H. Matthews was given the Philip N. McCombs Achievement Award by the California Press Association.Leading up to the 2006 U.S. Congressional Election, "Tracy Press" articles and editorials were widely discussed in state and national news and opinion forums, from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to Amy Ridenour's National Center for Public Policy Research blog, due to the Press being the hometown newspaper of the embattled United States Representative Richard Pombo.