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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2004 Stories by Paul Demko

• Meatball Surgery

  published December 22, 2004

  Will a management transplant stop the bleeding at HCMC? More >>

• Gabby Goes Down

  published December 15, 2004

  A prolific con man gets his day in court and 37 months in state prison. More >>

• Midnight Hour for the Vultures

  published December 15, 2004

  Public Radio's Pop Vultures bows after just 22 broadcasts. More >>

• Because That's Where the Money Is

  published December 8, 2004

  A surprising spike in bank robberies hits Minnesota. More >>

• Anchorhead: Disaster

  published December 1, 2004

  Minnesota Music CD Review More >>

• Uptown Borders: Bound To A Labor Agreement

  published November 24, 2004

  More than two years after voting to unionize, workers at the Borders bookstore in Uptown finally approved a labor contract last week. The vote... More >>

• Frozen Stiffs

  published November 17, 2004

  Bruce Rubenstein may hold the unusual distinction of being the state's leading chronicler of murder. More >>

• Minnesota Bucks GOP Trend

  published November 10, 2004

  Amid Republican gains nationwide, state Dems narrow the lege gap. More >>

• Found In Al Qaqaa: KSTP's Integrity

  published November 3, 2004

  The Hubbard family has done more than their share to ensure that George W. Bush and his Republican allies remain in power. According to the... More >>

• Green Acres

  published October 27, 2004

  Inver Grove Heights tries to turn one of its last farms into a subdivision. More >>

• The Long Shot and the Colonel

  published October 20, 2004

  The DFL picked neophyte Teresa Daly to unseat Bush lapdog John Kline in the conservative Second District. Does she even have a chance? More >>

• Whose Penis Is This, Anyway?

  published October 6, 2004

  Guidelines for AIDS-prevention funding revert to dark ages. More >>

• The Ghost of Bob Hope

  published September 29, 2004

  Doing the Baghdad boogie with traveling band Jack Knife & the Sharps. More >>

• Grizzly Adams Meets Tom Waits

  published September 29, 2004

  Ben Weaver's strange, eerie music captures old worlds. More >>

• Playing Favorites

  published September 22, 2004

  New rules could bring patronage jobs back to St. Paul. Say hello to boss Kelly. More >>

• Lullaby for the Working Class

  published September 15, 2004

  Local poet Mark Nowak pens industrial verse for closed steel factories and forgotten labor pains. More >>

• Battle of the St. Paul Titans

  published September 1, 2004

  It's Kelly vs. the City Council in a war of no words. More >>

• Gabriel Francois Has a Bridge in Bloomington to Sell You

  published August 18, 2004

  One man's felon is another man's entrepreneur: How to do business like Gabriel Francois. More >>

• 380,422 Teeth And One Chickenshit Sales Dep't

  published August 18, 2004

  Jeff Johnson's poster is provocative. It's upsetting. It's even, some might say, gruesome. After all, it catalogues in raw numbers the... More >>

• We Interrupt This TV Coverage To Bring You Breaking News About The School Lunch Menu In Anoka

  published August 4, 2004

  There are few reasons left to read the Pioneer Press. The paper that once tormented its bigger rival across the river with tenacious... More >>

• Will "Justifying Torture" Be On The Final Exam? St. Thomas's New Law School Hire

  published August 4, 2004

  The University of St. Thomas School of Law aspires to provide an ethical, as well as practical, legal education to its 340 students. The... More >>

• Notes of a Dirty Young Extra

  published July 21, 2004

  Love is a hot dog from Hell on the race track set of the new Bukowski film. More >>

• Of Mohawks and Crack Hos

  published July 21, 2004

  The F-Ups conquer the world, stop at Wal-Mart. More >>

• A Friend in Need

  published July 14, 2004

  Stephen Rondestvedt was more than an attorney in the eyes of his clients. He was a friend, and often their only advocate. Which made it pretty... More >>

• Home Wreckers

  published July 7, 2004

  Budget shenanigans by HUD and Bush threaten section 8 housing. More >>