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Steve Ronald, one of the top editors at the Star Tribune most of the time I was there, smiled at me one day when I apologized for turning in a story at 100 inches.
"Oh, don't worry, Chuck," he said. "A hundred inches by you reads like 98 by anybody else."
I remember his gentle dig every time I see I'm passing 20 inches.
Steve Ronald, one of the top editors at the Star Tribune most of the time I was there, smiled at me one day when I apologized for turning in a story at 100 inches.
"Oh, don't worry, Chuck," he said. "A hundred inches by you reads like 98 by anybody else."
I remember his gentle dig every time I see I'm passing 20 inches.
Chuck Haga ~ columnist, The Grand Forks Herald; journalism teacher
