How bad have the Star Tribune’s woes gotten? If a tweet by David de Young is any indicator, bad enough that they won’t honor commitments to contributors. The founder of the music site “How Was the Show?,” de Young writes that the newspaper sent him a copy of its “Commencement of Chapter 11″ bankruptcy papers, “which forbids me to ask them for the $75 they owe me for a photo I sold them in 2008.” A week ago, MinnPost’s David Brauer reported that as many as 11 buyout takers were told that their checks would bounce if cashed, and a few days ago, he followed up with news that seven veteran staffers who took buyouts aren’t getting the amount of cash they were promised.

De Young hasn’t yet replied to my query for this piece.