Well, dear readers, this, as Jim Morrison once said, is the end.
This is the last of the roughly 5,000 columns I have written or co-written for The Salt Lake Tribune during the past 26½ years. To say I will miss it is a massive understatement.
I hadn’t planned to retire quite yet, even after turning 70 in March. But with last week’s announcement that the newspaper continues to bleed financially and a number of layoffs are needed to keep it in business, I decided it would be selfish of me to stay on and take the job of another newsroom staffer whose career is still ahead of him or her.