We're going to miss you Tom. You are one of the best of the best, and are going to be a hard act to follow. Best of luck whatever you do.

Doug Monroe at Peachtree Screed confirms what I was afraid would happen. Tom Baxter of AJC's Political Insider is taking the AJC early retirement buyout offer.

The veteran Atlanta Journal-Constitution Political Correspondent has been a reporter, Sunday perspective editor and national editor at the AJC. Since 1987 he has written about politics in Georgia, the South and the nation.

To say we will miss him is an understatement. Tom is a pro, and I know the AJC's loss will be someone else's gain.