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In what can safely be called a HUGE blow to the Star Tribune's already shaken editorial staff, Dave Hage announced today that he is leaving the paper to join Sen. Amy Klobuchar's staff as communications director. Office scuttlebutt holds that newsroom editor D.J. Tice will be tapped to replace Hage. That makes sense: Doug Tice provided the conservative voice for the Pioneer Press editorial pages when he worked there, and has faced some criticism for allegedly bringing that bent into the Strib newsroom. Moving him back to the opinion pages would solve that