A sad day for the Daily News...

Blogging today has been a bit difficult because it's being done through tears as our newsroom says goodbye to 22 employees - some of them very good friends of mine and all like family.

It is heartbreaking.

We have people who have been here decades who are moving on, some just a year and so and most in between. All good people. Our newsroom and others across this country are weathering severe cuts and try to find a way to survive as we transition more and more to online product.

Some people are sucn troopers with one guy determined to finish his story before he packs up and most people actually trying to comfort those left behind. This is the best place I've ever worked, the place where I finally felt free to be myself, to express myself and where it really feels like home.

So every co-worker who walks out that door, it feels like you are saying goodbye to a family member.