Email Author Paul Demko

Awards

• 2008 - Page One Contest/Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists, published July 25, 2007

  "Trials & Stribulations"

• 2008 - Page One Contest/Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists, published April 18, 2007

  "Newspaper War"

• 2006 - Investigative Reporters and Editors, published July 20, 2005

  "The Hit Parade Revisited"

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2000 Stories by Paul Demko

• Offensive Line Man

  published December 27, 2000

  Writer Jeff Johnson stretches the truth and covers the spread. More >>

• Name One

  published November 22, 2000

  Two weeks after the election, how many judges can you remember from the ballot? Thought so. More >>

• Zoned Out

  published November 8, 2000

  Minneapolis bureaucrats put the kibosh on a West Bank homeless shelter. More >>

• Drinking Games

  published November 1, 2000

  Two high-profile convictions rekindle a debate over what to do when drunk drivers kill. More >>

• Sick and Tired

  published October 25, 2000

  You’ve seen the wheelchair marathoners. You’ve heard about the heroes who have triumphed over their disabilities. Now meet Mike Marco. More >>

• Net Free Nader

  published October 4, 2000

  Political advertising of and for the underground. More >>

• The Longest Wait

  published September 20, 2000

  Two missing daughters. Two years. One lead. No answers. More >>

• Arrested Development

  published September 6, 2000

  The Frogtown Action Alliance was created to help revitalize St. Paul. Now the nonprofit is just trying to stay out of court. More >>

• River Rats

  published August 30, 2000

  St. Paul hosts the alternative hobo convention. More >>

• McChump Change

  published August 16, 2000

  A day at the track with the P.J. O'Rourke of horseracing. More >>

• Poker Faces

  published July 26, 2000

  Forget the ponies. At Canterbury Park the action is in the cardroom. More >>

• A Game of Chicken

  published July 5, 2000

  A lone inventor claims Ecolab is waging a dirty fight over clean poultry. More >>

• No Phoning Home

  published June 28, 2000

  The public telephone goes the way of the rotary dial. More >>

• Dough Boys

  published June 14, 2000

  At the Minneapolis Grain Exchange, commodity traders are an endangered species. More >>