We’ve had a rough couple months. Forever (I think literally), I’d wake up and the paper would be at the breakfast table. Finally, we decided the content of the paper (The Star Tribune) wasn’t worth the experience of reading it at the table.

This decision was not taken lightly. Our kids had already begun the tradition. Our oldest checked the comics and weather every morning. Currently, the paper is an amalgamation of other organizations work. As the staff continued to get trimmed at the Strib, it started feeling more like a Google homepage rather than a hometown source. So, after much discussion (no debate really), we canceled the paper.

This morning, as I sit here reading my MacBook, I found this article from the Rake (which went online only this week). You can read about the Rake ceasing its print operation in an article from The Star Tribune. The irony.

Long story short, the Rake article gives a nice picture of what they call “the online news scrum” in the Twin Cities.