The RakeFormer Star Tribune reporter
Deborah Rybak was struck by the Strib's line about
Par Ridder likely not to return to the paper. "That tells me that lawyers are talking and I'm sure that exit pay is a major topic," she writes. "So how much more is Par going to take home from this misadventure in addition to the 'relocation' money we hear he received to move about 5 miles from Sunfish Lake to Kenwood? I wonder if his lawyers want extra because he was so successful in whacking the staff down to size and saving Avista so much money."