Scott Swanson
Alex Paul sits in a small cubicle-like office in the Linn County Courthouse, a few hundred yards from where he’s spent most of the last 16 years.
Life’s moved fast in the last few weeks. A month ago he was a newspaper reporter for the Albany Democrat-Herald, responsible for covering the county and a wide range of other stories.
He’d been planning to retire from his newspaper job and was looking for something…