Minnesota Star Tribune columnist. Hobbyist woodworker on Instagram: instagram.com/ericrpr/
Joined October 2009
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Eric Roper retweeted
4 Feb 2025
When reporter @StribRoper looks into the previous owners of his Minneapolis house, he uncovers an incredible history tying his city to a major racial reckoning.
Listen to the story of the Robinsons in @StarTribune‘s Ghost of a Chance: apple.co/GhostofaChance
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Did you know the @StarTribune recently launched its very first episodic, narratively driven podcast series, "Ghost of a Chance"? Racket's @jaymboller sat down with host @StribRoper to learn more about it: racketmn.com/racketcast-ep-1…
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10 Jan 2025
I have been working for five years on a project that began as a mystery about my home, but ultimately revealed an important history of race in Minneapolis. Our podcast, "Ghost of a Chance," will begin publishing Monday. Here is my first-person essay: startribune.com/a-mystery-ab…
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Eric Roper retweeted
30 Dec 2024
For almost five years, my husband @StribRoper has been researching the Robinson’s, a Black couple who owned our home in SW Minneapolis a century ago.
Starting Jan 13, their story will be a told as a national podcast from the @StarTribune called Ghost of a Chance.
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Eric Roper retweeted
5 Jun 2024
The wedding arch-turned garden gate @StribRoper and I built for our big day is featured in this month’s @Family_Handyman! They dedicated a whole page to the story of our nuptial woodworking project. And how we’ve now turned it into a permanent part of our home. 🥰
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Eric Roper retweeted
10 May 2024
He fought this newspaper — and won. Dan Cohen, mainstay of Minneapolis politics for decades, dies at 87. startribune.com/he-fought-th…
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10 May 2024
I enjoyed digging through our archives to chronicle Dan Cohen's long and very interesting career in Minneapolis politics. Cohen famously took the Star Tribune to the U.S. Supreme Court -- and won. He died in early April.
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Eric Roper retweeted
27 Mar 2024
Check out @StribRoper talking about Curious Minnesota (and when you can actually call yourself a Minnesotan) on @MinnesotaLiveTV with @ChrisEgertTV & @MNewquistKSTP! kstp.com/special-coverage/mi…
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Eric Roper retweeted
21 Mar 2024
Curious Minnesota, a reader-driven reporting project, has received more than 3,000 reader questions since launching in 2019. @StribRoper shared a few favorites.
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Eric Roper retweeted
16 Mar 2024
Proof: @StribRoper and me on @tptAlmanac on the same night. There should be a term for couples pulling this off. 🤔
15 Mar 2024
- @TaneDanger shares an essay
- @pdouglasweather brings a weather update
- @kaomig visits a family-owned apple orchard business
- @StribRoper looks back at 5 years of Curious Minnesota
- @mlahammer reports on the new SRO law
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Eric Roper retweeted
8 Mar 2024
Launched today: our new @StarTribune "Curious Minnesota" collection that tracks every question we've answered in 5 years in this nifty database:
startribune.com/curious-minn…
Great work by @StribRoper & team.
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Eric Roper retweeted
8 Mar 2024
This is very cool
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I'm very excited about a new searchable database we are launching today for the fifth anniversary of Curious Minnesota. The Curious Minnesota Collection features more than 260 stories about Minnesota history and culture, all based on reader questions. startribune.com/curious-minn…
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Eric Roper retweeted
8 Mar 2024
Get curiouser and curiouser about Minnesota with this searchable landing page of all the Curiouses.
8 Mar 2024
I'm very excited about a new searchable database we are launching today for the fifth anniversary of Curious Minnesota. The Curious Minnesota Collection features more than 260 stories about Minnesota history and culture, all based on reader questions. startribune.com/curious-minn…
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Eric Roper retweeted
8 Mar 2024
Introducing the Curious Minnesota Collection. Every question we've answered — now in one place startribune.com/curious-minn…
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8 Mar 2024
I'm very excited about a new searchable database we are launching today for the fifth anniversary of Curious Minnesota. The Curious Minnesota Collection features more than 260 stories about Minnesota history and culture, all based on reader questions. startribune.com/curious-minn…
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Eric Roper retweeted
8 Sep 2023
Is it true that a Minnesotan will "give you directions to anywhere but their home?" A reader who contacted Curious Minnesota says yes, and wants to know why. We want to hear from transplants and native Minnesotans alike. DM reporter @zoemjack or email zoe.jackson@startribune.com
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Eric Roper retweeted
23 Jun 2023
Was there a "riot" of teenagers in downtown Minneapolis after the Beatles' only Minnesota show? #CuriousMinnesota has the answer: startribune.com/the-beatles-…
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Eric Roper retweeted
19 Jun 2023
The Curious Minnesota podcast heads north to the mighty Mesabi, which helped fuel America's success story.
startribune.com/curious-minn…
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Eric Roper retweeted
2 Jun 2023
Somewhere beneath southern Minnesota lie the remnants of about 40,000 board games once created and sold as an anti-establishment alternative to mega-selling Monopoly. startribune.com/anti-monopol…
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Eric Roper retweeted
19 May 2023
If you love Betty White, the "Golden Girls" or Minnesota or all three, today's #CuriousMinnesota is for you. startribune.com/golden-girls…
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