Email Author Beth Walton

Awards

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published September 25, 2008

  "Holly Collins Returns"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 27, 2008

  "Local Couples Fight for Gay Rights"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 4, 2008

  "Midwest Oil Mining a Crude Idea"

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2008 Stories by Beth Walton

• St. Paul deploys effective weapon against frisky felines

  published December 17, 2008

  Roland Weber loves animals. So in 2006, when a big tomcat jumped on the outside windowsill of his brick duplex in northwest St. Paul, he... More >>

• Midwest oil mining a crude idea to many

  published December 3, 2008

  Some 1,500 miles northwest of Minneapolis, the luscious green boreal forests that once lined the banks of the Athabasca River have been... More >>

• Local couples fight for gay rights in wake of Proposition 8

  published November 26, 2008

  Doug Benson and Duane Gajewski are marriage junkies. Like many gay couples, they have multiple anniversaries. Since they met in the... More >>

• The Green Institute faces possible foreclosure after 15 years

  published November 19, 2008

  ANNIE YOUNG WENT to bed exhausted. For more than 12 years, the large, outspoken woman had been rallying the troops in... More >>

• Dan Griffith fights for your right to elect judges

  published October 29, 2008

  Dan Griffith is not the sort of candidate to run on his experience. He barely mentions his 15 years as a lawyer, the time he spent as assistant... More >>

• Holly Ann Collins faces new custody dispute

  published October 15, 2008

  Just a few weeks after Holly Collins returned to the Netherlands, thinking that she would never have to set foot in Minnesota again, her son,... More >>

• Skate or die: Life with the MN Roller Girls

  published October 8, 2008

  Before we get too far ahead of ourselves, there's something you need to know about me: I'm a klutz. I'm about as athletic as a wall. I... More >>

• Holly Collins returns after 14 years in hiding

  published September 24, 2008

  Last Sunday, Holly Ann Collins walked off a plane and stood on Minnesota ground for the first time in 14 years. Her friends cheered, waving... More >>

• Minnesota's largest shelter killed more than 14,000 animals last year. How many were unnecessary?

  published August 20, 2008

  When Amber was a little girl she would save her allowance to buy cat food for the strays roaming her neighborhood behind the Animal Humane... More >>

• Battered woman becomes American refugee in Amsterdam

  published July 30, 2008

  It was the first week of the New Year when Holly Collins showed her identification card to the clerk at City Hall in a small township in... More >>

• No More Pencils, No More Books

  published July 2, 2008

  It wasn't until mid-June that state Rep. Mindy Greiling (DFL-Roseville) really understood the impact of underfunding state school districts.... More >>

• "So my boyfriend and I went speed dating..."

  published June 18, 2008

  Last Wednesday I called my boyfriend and asked if I could go speed dating. "It's for work," I pleaded. "I'm going to go undercover.... More >>

• Pregnant Pause

  published June 18, 2008

  Nestled away in Minnesota farm country, Mazeppa resident Stacey Suess sits on her back porch in a red plaid blouse and denim capris and recalls... More >>

• Minnesota becomes second state to offer treatment to veterans who commit crimes

  published May 21, 2008

  Last week, Minnesota became the second state in the nation to pass a sentence-mitigation bill for veterans facing criminal prosecution who... More >>

• Mystery illness fells young man

  published May 14, 2008

  School had just started for the year and Cole Haakana could hardly sit still in his fifth-grade classroom. Today, he was going to a... More >>

• Minnesota ranks second-lowest in the nation for total disciplinary actions against doctors

  published May 14, 2008

  Last week the Wall... More >>

• Madia tops Bonoff

  published April 16, 2008

  An accomplished sitting female senator, a mother, well established in political circles, seemed a shoo-in. The money and endorsements were... More >>

• Artist takes on destructive plants

  published March 26, 2008

  In the semester before his college graduation in 1992, St. Olaf art major Jim Proctor wasn't sure what role art would play in his adult life.... More >>

• Crime and PTSD

  published March 26, 2008

  In 2000, four years after graduating high school in Shoreview, Tony Klecker enlisted in the United States Marine Corps as an engineer. After... More >>

• Soldier Suicides: veterans are killing themselves in record numbers

  published March 26, 2008

  On February 19, 2004, Private Jonathan Schulze's life changed forever. The stone-faced, blue-eyed Marine got word he was going to war in Iraq,... More >>

• A Soldier in Winter

  published March 5, 2008

  Sipping on a longneck Miller Genuine Draft, Jen's brown eyes glaze over as she stares out the window of an Uptown bar, blocks away from the... More >>

• Kinky Sex Makes College Go 'Round

  published February 6, 2008

  Mike Lent hugs everyone who walks though the door of the Queer Student Cultural Center, a grape-and-lime painted office tucked away on the... More >>