Today, Kim Humphreys is relaunching the web site IwantmyRocky.com. After the Rocky closed, we temporarily used the site to post news — primarily from Kevin Flynn, the Rocky’s Spotlight staff and a group of copy editors who were dedicated to seeing something emerge from the wreckage. When the group became involved with INDenverTimes, we shut down the site. Now, Kim is picking up where we left off back in March. We may have lost our paper, but we still need to save the news. What happened in Denver, happened in Seattle and Tucson, and it will happen more places before the end of the year. IwantmyRocky.com was always about more than saving our jobs, it was about saving what our jobs meant.

Many see what happened here in Denver as the last battle between the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News. We here at America’s Fish regard it as the first domino in a long row of bad things to happen to media and democracy in the country in the next year.

Steve Myers at Poynter wrote a piece about the web site IwantmyRocky.com, which we are still maintaining, and InsidetheRockies.com and after talking to now-former Rocky transportation reporter Kevin Flynn and America’s Fish.

Around this time on most Mondays, we here at America’s Fish would find ourselves sitting in the office of Barry Forbis, the sports editor at the Rocky Mountain News, along with Kevin “Moose” Huhn, Brian “Powerball” Clark and Bob “Quietest Cornhusker Fan Ever” Willis, either talking about what was going to be on the cover the next day or getting lost in another one of Clark’s digressions. But today, there is no newspaper, there is no cover, there is no digression. Instead, we’re on our third cup of coffee, contemplating playing Guitar Hero (Got Band on the Run stuck in the head, might need to exorcise it).