Email Author Emily Kaiser

Awards

• 2011 - National Association of Black Journalists Awards, published January 27, 2010

  "Mystery Record"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "Hip-Hop High"

• 2011 - Page One Contest/Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists, published March 31, 2010

  "Hip Hop High"

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2010 Stories by Emily Kaiser

• Pet hoarding in the Twin Cities a growing problem

  published June 16, 2010

  Molly grew up in the home of an animal hoarder. When she was six years old, she watched her mother's love for dogs spiral out of control. Each... More >>

• Jariland Spence: The Mother of West Broadway

  published June 9, 2010

  Jariland Spence's storefront on West Broadway is never quiet. By the time one person has come and gone from her Prayer Center, the front door... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Alisha Neeley's death leads to girl gang truce

  published May 12, 2010

  Alisha Neeley spent the last night of her life surrounded by her closest friends. The 17-year-old was pre-partying at her cousin's... More >>

• K.G. Wilson: The Murder Witness

  published April 14, 2010

  K.G. Wilson celebrated St. Patrick's Day this year by taking his eight-year-old daughter out for burgers at McDonald's. After they finished... More >>

• Window-cleaning deaths in the Twin Cities

  published April 14, 2010

  Travis Schneider stood on a window-cleaning platform along the Target Plaza North high rise in downtown Minneapolis. Working 14 stories up,... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  High School for Recording Arts gives students chance at hip-hop career

  published March 31, 2010

  David Ellis, the founder of High School for Recording Arts in St. Paul, walked into the lunchroom fashionably late, chomping on a bag of... More >>

• Jon Gurban forced out as Minneapolis park board's controversial superintendent

  published March 3, 2010

  When the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board voted last month not to rehire its top employee, park superintendent Jon Gurban, it marked the... More >>

• Minneapolis homicides: Murderopolis redux?

  published January 27, 2010

  Just six days into 2010, neighbors, city officials, and police swarmed the Seward neighborhood in south Minneapolis. Three men lay dead at the... More >>

• Haze reunites over funky mystery record

  published January 27, 2010

  It all started with Shelley Pierce hunched over the vinyl bin at Cheapo. She had most of the albums she wanted, but enjoyed... More >>