"It's amazing to me they're going to let the bureau go dark."

From here:

After 78 days as the sole Star Tribune Washington reporter, today is intern Brady Averill’s last day of work. When the sale of the paper to Avista Capital Partners closed in early March, Strib D.C. reporters Rob Hotakainen and Kevin Diaz chose to stay with McClatchy, citing an unattractive pay package offered by Avista, leaving only the University of Minnesota graduate to cover the nation’s capitol.

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But when Averill leaves tonight, the paper’s D.C. office won’t technically “go dark.”