I've corresponded off and on with Jim for 10 years or more, ever since I joined the UT. Yeah, he was crusty and sometimes a curmudgeon but I valued and respected his opinions, as many did.

Man, losing folks like Jim, Ed, Drew....it's getting old.

>I'm afraid it's the worst sort of news. Jim passed away., I don't know the exact date, but the apartment building superintendent thinks it was cancer.
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>Sorry to be the harbinger of bad news. I know we are all going to miss his crusty ways.
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>Alan