Charlie Savage is a hero of mine. Savage, a Pulitzer Prize winner for his reporting in the Boston Globe on the hidden workings of the Bush administration, wrote last year’s Takeover, about how Dick Cheney has worked for over 30 years to eviscerate the system of governmental checks and balances and concentrate power in the executive branch.

Well, it turns out Savage has left the Boston Globe and joined the New York Times. I saw his byline on an article this morning and did a double take. I looked him up, and sure enough, he just started there. (This is his first Times article.) Awesome.

Big loss for the Globe, though.