We were a little slow to pick up on this sad note. Seems that Betsy Culp has decided to turn out the lights over the San Francisco Call. The call has existed in some form in The City since the days of Mark Twain, but in the 21st century it was very much "The Washerwoman's Paper" online. Betsy explains:

This spring, however, I came to realize that decades of hunching over first a hot manuscript and then a hot computer keyboard have done unspeakable things to my neck. Not a good situation at all. And when my computer crashed not once but three times -- pesky critters, those viruses! -- it seemed like somebody somewhere was trying to tell me something.

We're not sure if Betsy wants to hand over the reins, maybe, but young upstart H. Brown certainly has his own plans and has warmly invited the Call's contributors to come join him with his new 'top secret' SF political project. Even Twain admitted in an article for the Morning Call 141 years ago to the week, "We shall probably not fall so deeply in love with reporting for a San Francisco paper as to make it impossible ever to wean us from it." We want to thank Betsy for her years of covering The City, and wish her the best of luck trying to stay away from the computer!