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Mark Talkington

Mark is publisher and co-founder of The Indio Post. He first moved to the Coachella Valley in 1994 and has lived here both full time and part time ever since. He spent more than three decades as a newsroom leader at newspapers and digital media sites including The Desert Sun, ESPN.com, and at Microsoft, where he worked for 22 years before retiring in 2024. He launched The Palm Springs Post in February 2021 and helped grow it to be the most popular media outlet in that city.

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Mark's Latest Articles

Airport sees domestic growth offset Canadian flight reductions

The region's airport set five monthly records in 2025, with March recording nearly half a million passengers as the busiest month ever. All months except October showed year-over-year growth.

One-day count of homeless people in Indio shows 53% decline from 2023

The survey is not a comprehensive accounting of all unhoused people, but rather a snapshot of what the population looks like on a single day.

Mural honoring history of significant neighborhood gets new review

During Tuesday's meeting of the Indio Public Arts Commission, Morelia Calderon was back to present more details about her vision for a large-scale mural that would be painted between Monroe and Arabia streets on John Nobles Avenue.

Major expansion planned for waste transfer station that serves Indio

The expansion, which still requires formal approval, addresses concerns about the aging infrastructure of the current facility, which has been in operation for 25 years.