Second in what we expect will be a long-running series

Well that was quick.

When we last saw Boston Herald State House reporter Matt Stout, which was less than a week ago, he was chronicling the very entertaining Massachusetts Senate president throwdown.

That piece ran on the Herald website the same day this Stout piece ran in the shaky local tabloid’s print edition under the banner headline “Patrick May Now Have 2020 Vision.”

So imagine our surprise when this piece appeared on the Boston Globe’s website two days later (tip o’ the pixel to Jay Fitzgerald at MASSterList).

For the byline impaired: Matt Stout, Globe Staff.

(Oddly enough, the Patrick story in the Globe’s print edition that day was written by Michael Levenson. But whatever.)

Regardless of those twists and turns, Matt Stout is now firmly ensconced at the Boston Globe, yet another Herald journalist who’s put new owner Digital First Media in his rear-view mirror.

Maybe they should call it Digital Frost Media, yeah?