Your Morning Stranger Turnover

In his Morning News post, The Stranger's managing editor Bradley Steinbacher lets slip near the end that after fourteen years, his end his near. No future plans, no reasons why. This continues a trend (two makes a trend!) of gnomic departures that began with news editor Josh Feit's abrupt "departure" (made somewhat less abrupt by his continued posting on Slog) earlier this summer. So we provide you instead with the fond memories elicited by Steinbacher's bio: "Some 13 years ago Bradley Steinbacher, was hired to be The Stranger’s first receptionist. After that debacle, he was bounced around to various departments—classifieds, distribution, marketing, etc.—until he was finally named both Managing Editor and Film Editor in 2003. Just how he reached such high posts at the paper remains a mystery." Perhaps more importantly, does this spell the end of The Stranger's anagrammatical public editor A. Birch Steen?