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"You Brettcha" campaign spearheaded by local DJ Jay "Strangelove" Tappe
By Matt Snyders
You didn't have to be a football fan to feel the collective ennui that gripped the metro in the wake of the Vikings' downfall. The letdown had Minnesota feeling like an...
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Meet the invisible hands behind some of the state's biggest bills
By Matt Snyders
THERE ARE FEW THINGS LAWMAKERS like talking about less than the lobbyists they work with on a daily basis.
This hesitancy underscores legislators' politically inconvenient but...
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Layoffs and downsizing keep Avalon in business
By Matt Snyders
"Goddamn it!" says the founder and CEO of Avalon Security. He emerges from his office in Brooklyn Park wearing black pinstriped pants, matching vest, and an improbably broad...
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The Minnesota congresswoman gives Sarah Palin a run for her money
Matt Snyders
It was just after 12:30 a.m. on election night when Michele Bachmann materialized in the cavernous ballroom of the Sheraton hotel in Bloomington. The din of clinking champagne...
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She sounds off on Ron Paul, health care, and, of course, liberty
Matt Snyders
Michele Bachmann is a regular fixture on the cable news circuit. When it comes to print, however, she takes a more measured approach; she declined a phone interview with the...
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Dizzy dispatches from the Great Minnesota Get-Together
Matt Snyders
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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Dizzy dispatches from the Great Minnesota Get-Together
By Matt Snyders
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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Traveling gallery of corpses axed in Paris for disrespectfully displaying dead people for profit
By Matt Snyders
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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Benny Quash, Bob Edwards, and Marck Dickhut become outlaws of comedy
By Matt Snyders
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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Ramsey County Sheriff fends off charges of cronyism
By Matt Snyders
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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Divestment bill will withdraw pension funds from Iran's oil sector
By Matt Snyders
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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Sandford says repeatedly: "I don't want to do this"
By Matt Snyders
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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Besieged by politicians and media, Craig Newmark finds an unlikely ally: A victim's family
By Bradley Campbell and Matt Snyders
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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Besieged by politicians and media, Craig Newmark finds an unlikely ally: A victim's family
By Bradley Campbell and Matt Snyders
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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Overcrowded shelters and lack of available jobs greet help-seekers
By Matt Snyders
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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Joel Kramer wants your money for his grand journalism experiment
By Matt Snyders
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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Goggle-clad men in red strike up trouble around town
By Matt Snyders
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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A retrospective of Minnesota's most heartbreaking franchise
By Matt Snyders
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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Hi, Mr. Peterson, how do you dooooo--owwww
By Matt Snyders
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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More than 9,000 Minnesotans are homeless. I decided to join them.
By Matt Snyders
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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