We’re happy to announce that Paul Demko will be joining the staff of Minnesota Monitor on April 28 as the site’s new senior political writer. A staff writer at City Pages for the past eight years, Demko has won numerous awards for his writing — including a Frank Premack Award, an SPJ first place in investigative reporting, and an Investigative Reporters & Editors finalist citation for “The Hit Parade Revisited,” a 2005 feature he co-authored with then-colleague G.R. Anderson Jr.