Dakota & Scott counties reporter @ Star Tribune. Loves art, books, dogs & the smell of newsprint. Tweets aren't endorsements. [email protected]

Minneapolis/St.Paul metro area
Joined March 2013
Saw the huge new letters going up on our building this morning in preparation for the RELAUNCH!
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You guys, I was wrong. They were only taking them down. New ones not going up for a couple days.
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Americans of all stripes are going out of their way to escape anxiety. That’s not the best strategy for their health, @raf_ideas writes: theatlantic.com/health/archi…
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“I suspect that reading fiction is one of the few remaining paths to transcendence, that elusive state in which the distance between the self and the universe shrinks,” Ceridwen Dovey writes. nyer.cm/LXiQNNF
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So much science research is publicly funded, yet we scientists aren't required to make our findings understandable to broad audiences--that should change. Check out my opinion essay published at @insidehighered #scicomm #STEM #research insidehighered.com/opinion/v…
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Today, on the 100th anniversary of James Baldwin’s birthday, Vann R. Newkirk II argues that the playwright, activist, and novelist’s most underappreciated talent was letter-writing. The latest Atlantic Books Briefing further explores that correspondence: theatlantic.com/newsletters/…
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Google pulled an Olympics-themed ad for its AI chatbot after it sparked backlash from viewers that the messaging was impersonal and dystopian on.wsj.com/3WyJWrc on.wsj.com/3WyJWrc
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When someone criticizes the strib but still includes the link to the article
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Journalism is in a great place right now idk what y’all are talking about recruiting2.ultipro.com/STA1…
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$13M settlement proposed in lawsuit filed by U of M against E.I. du Pont, federal government; money would go toward cleanup of pollution at UMore Park in Rosemount, Empire in south metro. Site was formerly a WWII smokeless gunpowder plant. startribune.com/settlement-w…
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Erin Adler retweeted
This video of Kathleen Ledecky balancing chocolate milk on her head while swimming is more impressive to me than her seven Olympic gold medals
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Here’s a sampling of the North Shore’s raging waterfalls 💦
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When Elko New Market tested the aquifer in preparation for building a bottled water plant, the water turned dark and dirty. Residents wonder what this means for their well water in the future. startribune.com/water-turned…
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Community centers in Twin Cities planning remodels to aging community centers even as other cities deem them too expensive to build or maintain. Are the spaces still relevant and worth the $? m.startribune.com/as-twin-ci…
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