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This is a great hire for the Trib as Lee has done a good job with the Lake Oswego Review, mostly reporting on city government and also general reporting. She is a good writer. It's a loss for the Review but a gain for the Trib.

They're breathing a sign of relief at the secretive private corporation that operates Oswego Lake. Lee has been holding their feet to the fire in a way that's never happened before. As a reader and homeowner, it seems like the LO Review has been a much stronger paper in the past year or two, and she's been a huge part of it. Hope they find someone with her tenacious vigilance.

I've always been impressed with her work.

The Review is worthless. Most stories have only one source quoted and the design is atrocious. I bet Lee is glad to leave that office, which just downsized too!
With at least two cover stories an issue, she worked hard. Too bad everyone else in the news staff doesn’t.

I'm not a fan of that entire organization.

Community Newspapers -- but yet don't have offices in the communities they cover. Yes, Lake O has an office, but Beaverton, Tigard and Tualatin Times are out of one building in Beaverton I believe.

I have read some of Lee's stuff, and it's good. I wish her well. Maybe some day she will work with a better company.

Slowly working up to a real newspaper, I have been pleased to see the Trib taking on issues others will not. They usually give a disclaimer to being owned by Pamplin when appropriate...hello Big O and Newhouse syndicate.

Beaverton, Tigard and Tualatin Times are in Clackamas.

I believe business writer Jon Bell was brought in from a CNI paper for the Trib business section. As a cautionary note to Lee, he was quickly canned in one of the periodic beheadings.

The Times haven't been in Times Square in Tigard for years. They moved to a Community Newspapers building just to the south of the Burlingame Fred Meyer. Then they moved to Clackamas.

You've done a great job in L.O. You've rattled cages, you've written clearly, you've demonstrated good instincts. Your reward: A job working for .... Dwight Jaynes!

Jon Bell was actually working for Eagle Newspapers just before joining the Trib. But yes, I was indeed lopped off a year later when the Tribune cut the entire business section and then some. But in retrospect, working for the Tribune, which I still do on a limited freelance basis, and then getting laid off were two of the best things that have ever happened in my career. If I were Lee, I would have no reservations about joining the Tribune at all.
JB

congratulations to lee! to everything else: WHO CARES