Email Author Matt Snyders

Awards

• 2010 - Page One Contest/Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists, published July 8, 2009

  "Fletcher's Gang"

• 2010 - Page One Contest/Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists, published April 29, 2009

  "Craigslist Declassified"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published September 11, 2008

  "Dozens of Journalists Arrested at RNC"

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

  "Police Raid Anarchist Homes"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 22, 2008

  "Moles Wanted"

• 2009 - Page One Contest/Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists, published May 22, 2008

  "Moles Wanted"

• 2009 - Page One Contest/Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists, published November 27, 2008

  "Gimme Shelter"

• 2009 - Page One Contest/Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists, published April 10, 2008

  "The Drug Test"

• 2009 - Page One Contest/Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists

  "RNC Arrests: Police State of Mind" (citypages.com)

• 2008 - Page One Contest/Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists, published November 28, 2007

  "The Full MOA"

• 2008 - Page One Contest/Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists, published October 3, 2007

  "Banning Desmond Tutu"

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2009 Stories by Matt Snyders

• Avalon Security's Dan Seman terminates workers of all collars

  published December 30, 2009

  "Goddamn it!" says the founder and CEO of Avalon Security. He emerges from his office in Brooklyn Park wearing black pinstriped pants, matching... More >>

• Michele Bachmann: Crazy like a fox

  published November 18, 2009

  It was just after 12:30 a.m. on election night when Michele Bachmann materialized in the cavernous ballroom of the Sheraton hotel in... More >>

• Michele Bachmann: The complete interview

  published November 18, 2009

  Michele Bachmann is a regular fixture on the cable news circuit. When it comes to print, however, she takes a more measured approach; she... More >>

• Fairmongering: Seven straight days at the Minnesota State Fair

  published September 9, 2009

  If there were a hell specifically tailored for agoraphobes, it would probably look something like the Minnesota State Fair. Every... More >>

• Fairmongering: Seven straight days at the Minnesota State Fair

  published September 2, 2009

  If there were a hell specifically tailored for agoraphobes, it would probably look something like the Minnesota State Fair. Every... More >>

• "BODIES...the Exhibition" walks into controversial debut at Mall of America

  published August 12, 2009

  At first glance, they don't look real. Seeing a skinned human body—steak-red musculature and adjoining tendons fully exposed,... More >>

• Comedy Corner Underground squashed by police who want no funny business

  published July 29, 2009

  Stop us if you've heard this one before. A city inspector walks into a bar. Strolling under a handful of illuminated TVs, she casually... More >>

• Meet Bob Fletcher: Ramsey County's most controversial cop

  published July 8, 2009

  Bob Fletcher is a man under siege, but you wouldn't know it by looking at him. Fletcher proceeds through the Ramsey County Sheriff... More >>

• Minnesota's legislators didn't get Obama's Mideast memo

  published June 10, 2009

  It was the Persian New Year, March 20, and President Obama had just sent a video message to the people and leaders of Iran. In it, he said it... More >>

• Minnesota mental health patient Ray Sandford forced into electro-shock therapy

  published May 20, 2009

  Ray Sandford doesn't want to do this. On a sunny yet cool mid-April morning, the pear-shaped 54-year-old emerges from the front door of... More >>

• Craig Newmark speaks at victim's memorial in wake of Craigslist killings

  published May 6, 2009

  IN OCTOBER 2007, Katherine Olson was looking for work. Since graduating summa cum laude from St. Olaf College with a dual degree in... More >>

• Craig Newmark speaks at victim's memorial in wake of Craigslist killings

  published April 29, 2009

  IN OCTOBER 2007, Katherine Olson was looking for work. Since graduating summa cum laude from St. Olaf College with a dual degree in... More >>

• Battered women among bad economy's victims

  published March 25, 2009

  The stay was supposed to be temporary. A couple of weeks, maybe. A month at the most. When Tay checked into Cornerstone, a Bloomington domestic... More >>

• The MinnPost Model: Is it sustainable?

  published March 4, 2009

  In summer 2007, when it was announced that a localized nonprofit online newspaper, More >>

• Meet the Vulcans: The Twin Cites' most controversial partiers

  published February 18, 2009

  The guests of honor arrived in eight cherry-red fire trucks, their six-cylinder engines puttering down Sixth Street, sirens wailing in quick... More >>

• Twenty years of Timberwolves: Highs, lows, and grisly details

  published January 21, 2009

  On a frigid night five days before Christmas, a sparse crowd gathers inside the Target Center to watch the floundering Timberwolves take on the... More >>