Don Ruane got his first journalism job in high school as a copy boy for the Press of Atlantic City in New Jersey. Ruane is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the University of Missouri Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism. He joined Gannett in 1976, covering cops and high school sports for the Herald-Dispatch in Huntington, West Virginia.

Ruane moved to the News-Press in 1979 and has covered various beats, including cops, city and county, and transportation and growth; he also spent 13 years on the opinion page. Ruane covered City Hall for the Cape Coral bureau for nearly four years. His wife is a business reporter for the News-Press . He has three children and one grandchild.

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