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Editor's Notebook

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Over the last two months, I've explained Patch to a lot of people: my family, my friends, prominent officials and businesspeople around town, random individuals in coffee shops and on the street. I've come at it from all angles, speaking about nationwide ambitions and street corner opportunities, about big company business models and neighborhood values. My name is Andrew Dana Hudson, and I'm your local editor for Affton-Shrewsbury Patch. I've worked as a reporter all over the world, in New York and Bangkok and remote parts of India. But I have never been more excited for a job than I am now, here, in my hometown. When I describe Patch, sometimes I call it a small town newspaper online, publishing daily and equipped to update instantly to…

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