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Fairmongering: Seven straight days at the Minnesota State Fair
Dizzy dispatches from the Great Minnesota Get-Together
Matt Snyders
Published: September 9, 2009
If there were a hell specifically tailored for agoraphobes, it would probably look something like the Minnesota State Fair. Every August, the Land of 10,000 Lakes condenses...
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Fairmongering: Seven straight days at the Minnesota State Fair
Dizzy dispatches from the Great Minnesota Get-Together
By Matt Snyders
Published: September 2, 2009
If there were a hell specifically tailored for agoraphobes, it would probably look something like the Minnesota State Fair. Every August, the Land of 10,000 Lakes condenses...
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"BODIES...the Exhibition" walks into controversial debut at Mall of America
Traveling gallery of corpses axed in Paris for disrespectfully displaying dead people for profit
By Matt Snyders
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, scrotum-less testicles hanging like...
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Comedy Corner Underground squashed by police who want no funny business
Benny Quash, Bob Edwards, and Marck Dickhut become outlaws of comedy
By Matt Snyders
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 surveys the spacious confines. Something...
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Meet Bob Fletcher: Ramsey County's most controversial cop
Ramsey County Sheriff fends off charges of cronyism
By Matt Snyders
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 Department's third-floor offices with the...
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Minnesota's legislators didn't get Obama's Mideast memo
Divestment bill will withdraw pension funds from Iran's oil sector
By Matt Snyders
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 was "time for a new beginning"...
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Minnesota mental health patient Ray Sandford forced into electro-shock therapy
Sandford says repeatedly: "I don't want to do this"
By Matt Snyders
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 his ranch-style group home in...
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Craig Newmark speaks at victim's memorial in wake of Craigslist killings
Besieged by politicians and media, Craig Newmark finds an unlikely ally: A victim's family
By Bradley Campbell and Matt Snyders
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 theater and Hispanic studies, she'd mostly...
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Craig Newmark speaks at victim's memorial in wake of Craigslist killings
Besieged by politicians and media, Craig Newmark finds an unlikely ally: A victim's family
By Bradley Campbell and Matt Snyders
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 theater and Hispanic studies, she'd mostly...
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Battered women among bad economy's victims
Overcrowded shelters and lack of available jobs greet help-seekers
By Matt Snyders
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 violence shelter, the only thing...
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The MinnPost Model: Is it sustainable?
Joel Kramer wants your money for his grand journalism experiment
By Matt Snyders
Published: March 4, 2009
In summer 2007, when it was announced that a localized nonprofit online newspaper, MinnPost.com, was set for launch, the ink-stained community went abuzz. For an industry...
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Meet the Vulcans: The Twin Cites' most controversial partiers
Goggle-clad men in red strike up trouble around town
By Matt Snyders
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 bursts like mechanical yelps of...
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Twenty years of Timberwolves: Highs, lows, and grisly details
A retrospective of Minnesota's most heartbreaking franchise
By Matt Snyders
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 Houston Rockets. With 2:50...
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Vikings running back Adrian Peterson has vise-grip handshake
Hi, Mr. Peterson, how do you dooooo--owwww
By Matt Snyders
Published: December 10, 2008
On a sultry mid-July afternoon in the Vikings' indoor practice space in Eden Prairie, Vikings assistant Tom West offers a warning about running back Adrian Peterson's legendary...
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Living on the streets of Minneapolis for a week
More than 9,000 Minnesotans are homeless. I decided to join them.
By Matt Snyders
Published: November 26, 2008
The unemployment rate is the highest it's been since 1994. More than a million jobs have been lost nationwide since the start of the year. Minnesota shed 7,500 posts last month...
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Eight RNC protesters accused of 'furthering terrorism' thanks to statute
Officials say the RNC 8 plotted to sabotage Xcel, kidnap delegates
By Matt Snyders
Published: November 12, 2008
Eryn Trimmer sits in a Loring Park coffee shop and peers out the window to the street below. Dressed in a casual charcoal-colored sweater, with wispy blond hair, the gangly...
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Al Franken vs. Norm Coleman gets down and dirty
The senate race between the Republican incumbent and the former SNL comedian is the most expensive in the country
By Matt Snyders
Published: October 22, 2008
On a grim, chilly evening in early October, Al Franken, Norm Coleman, and Independence Party candidate Dean Barkley sat side-by-side-by-side at a table in Rochester. The...
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Simon Says
Motivational speaker Russell Simon made a career out of imploring teens to steer clear of drugs and alcohol. So why did he go on a drunken, meth-fueled rampage?
By Matt Snyders
Published: September 24, 2008
Russell Simon didn't look like a thrice-convicted felon. With his gelled, spiked hair, hardy build, and cocksure cadence, he more closely resembled a high school football...
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Dozens of journalists arrested at RNC
Their crime? Covering the story
By Matt Snyders
Published: September 10, 2008
A weird thing happens to your nervous system when a flash-bang grenade explodes close enough for you to smell it. The higher functions of your consciousness evaporate and you...
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Police raid anarchist homes in advance of RNC
Infiltration programs aided the pre-emptive strike
By Matt Snyders
Published: September 3, 2008
Just over three months ago, we wrote of the FBI's effort to recruit moles to infiltrate and report back on peace activists throughout the Twin Cities ("Moles Wanted," 5/21/08)....
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