Another fallen solider

Wow, I just read that last post from when I was laid off more than a year ago.
Not much has changed, unfortunately.
Check that - fewer journalists are around than a year and a half ago.
A lot fewer.
And today one of my favorites, a bastion of the Twin Cities community journalism community, was fired.
Whether it be his failing eye sight, his illness, or his complete and sublime disregard for organization, he filed a story from a year ago and a school board is threatening a lawsuit.
This sucks. Where were the editors catching the "2009" references in his story?
They probably aren't too blame, and he has had a great run (going toe-to-toe with Jesse Ventura; Rolling Stones run-ins; covering stories that meant something). But it just seems like a yet another pall in an already bleak series of storms.
Ugh.
Damn it!

Well, H.T.R., you are and always will be, one of the good guys.

Cheers my friend.

SP.