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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2002 Stories by Paul Demko

• Doctors' Little Helper

  published December 18, 2002

  Minnesota courts are making it tougher to pursue medical malpractice suits. More >>

• Station Break

  published December 11, 2002

  Radio K busts onto the FM airwaves. More >>

• No Power of Attorney for Frogtown Prosecutor

  published December 4, 2002

  The St. Paul City Attorney's Office appointed John Lesch as community prosecutor for the Frogtown neighborhood in September. Since the Ramsey... More >>

• Accidents Will Happen

  published November 13, 2002

  I demand a recount! I can say, with absolute certainty, that the 430 people who voted in the U.S. Senate race in Ward 1, Precinct 14 of... More >>

• Gonorrhea Always Rings Twice

  published October 23, 2002

  What happens when the sex police make a house call? More >>

• Talk Dirty to Me

  published October 23, 2002

  Things overheard at the STD clinic. More >>

• Magical Misery Tour

  published October 9, 2002

  Norm Coleman's "St. Paul miracle" gets a withering report card. More >>

• Borders Skirmishes

  published September 18, 2002

  Booksellers make lousy money--and book chains want to keep it that way. More >>

• MPD Hit and Run

  published August 28, 2002

  Couple has car stolen, call cops, get fined. More >>

• The Learning Curve

  published August 21, 2002

  What happens when good schools get a failing grade? More >>

• A Picture of Discontent

  published July 31, 2002

  A series of artist showdowns paints an unflattering portrait of the diStilo Gallery. More >>

• Little Houses, Big Boxes

  published July 17, 2002

  Wal-Mart politicizes Inver Grove Heights. More >>

• Off Beat

  published July 17, 2002

  He's Got His Moe-jo Workin' More >>

• Off Beat

  published July 10, 2002

  A Crowded Field More >>

• The Backside

  published June 26, 2002

  Life beyond the grandstand at Canterbury Park. More >>

• Mike Ireland & Holler: Try Again

  published June 12, 2002

  Mike Ireland & Holler Try Again Ashmont Records Every time a songwriter's marriage falls apart,... More >>

• Sacred Cow Tipping

  published June 5, 2002

  'Lavender' quibbles with dibble. More >>

• Dutch Masters

  published June 5, 2002

  Holland's soccer artistry and its strange Semitic identity. More >>

• Sparks Plug

  published May 29, 2002

  Country radio host Jack K. Sparks gets the boot. More >>

• Eating Green

  published May 22, 2002

  After a long night, party pride wins the day. More >>

• Workers of Suburbia Unite!

  published May 15, 2002

  What happens when the employees at the Mounds View Golf Course go on strike. More >>

• Off Beat

  published May 15, 2002

  Here a Snipe, There a Snipe More >>

• Mike Marco RIP

  published May 8, 2002

  Even in death he is stirring up trouble. More >>

• Burn this Book

  published April 24, 2002

  The University of Minnesota Press, author Judith Levine, and one very hot topic More >>

• Disabling Development

  published March 27, 2002

  Will two helping ventures fall victim to progress? More >>