Dominic Holden, the high school dropout who's been covering city hall since June and oversaw The Stranger's best city election coverage in memory, is being promoted to News Editor. Eli Sanders, the senior staff writer who covered the 2008 presidential race and has recently been covering county politics, health-care reform, and criminal justice, is now Associate Editor of The Stranger. He will continue to focus on long-form investigative projects, as well as contribute to the news section. And we will be announcing another full-time hire in our news department in the coming weeks.