Revolving Door: Linda Mack Fired, Minneapolis Goes Critic-less

Interesting local story coming out of Minneapolis late yesterday: despite the booming architectural and design scene in the Minneapolis and St. Paul area, The Minneapolis Star Tribune has eliminated the position of architecture critic and reporter, Linda Mack who has worked in that capacity for the paper for the past twenty years. It’s another story of a newspaper suffering in a tighter and tighter market, but you’d think there’s probably a reporter somewhere that just covers the every gossip-y move of Jesse Ventura or Al Franken that we certainly could live without.