Good-bye, Baltimore; it's been real

After three years of blood, sweat and tears, I am heartbroken that The Baltimore Examiner is closing.

When I moved back to my hometown in March of 2006 to take this job, it was with a mix of excitement and trepidation. Creating a newspaper from scratch was a daunting, some might say even foolhardy, task. Could we really put out a newspaper with such a small staff? Would people really want to read it? If we all thought too hard about the uphill battle we faced, we never would have done it. Instead, we just rolled up our sleeves and dug in.