outgoing @mprnews reporter 〰️ a bisexual from south st. paul who tells it like it is. she/her.
Joined December 2008
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29 Sep 2023
i’m taking a hiatus from journalism 🙂 here’s what i sent to the mpr newsroom last week announcing my departure:
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6 Nov 2024
PLAYING GAMES: In the great tradition of strike publications, we offer our tech-worker version.
guild-build.netlify.app/
Now you can play and not be a scab. We also want to thank the multitude of @nytimes subscribers who have stopped playing and honored our digital picket line.
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28 Oct 2024
Help the Moturi family recover from Hate Crime Attack. gofund.me/83bd0073
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19 Aug 2024
Sidewalk closed. Wow
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17 Jul 2024
Caffrey’s has a new patio and it’s so… Caffrey’s
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28 Jun 2024
Doctor. Professor. City Council Vice President.
The reason that a woman might request to be addressed by her actual title is illustrated by these reporters’ responses, which all but call her “uppity.”
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26 Jun 2024
Cyndi Lauper going to the US Senate to change a law that allowed homeless shelters to deny someone a bed based on their sexuality is the most rock star thing I've seen a rock star do.
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28 Jun 2024
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has just ruled 6-3 that it is legal to criminalize homelessness.
The Court sided with an Oregon town that made it illegal to camp in public, overturning a decades long precedent that says criminalizing homelessness is cruel and unusual punishment.
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28 Jun 2024
dunking on aisha in this
way could have been saved for the group chat or company slack… posting it to public is a strange choice.
27 Jun 2024
Got a scolding from Council *Vice President* Aisha Chughtai for calling her Council Member and I — just want to know what’s going on with the labor standards board proposal
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17 Jun 2024
Alex G (@SANDYalexg) released 'DSU' 10 years ago today stereogum.com/2268170/alex-g…
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7 May 2024
facts
6 May 2024
2,000 rubber ducks racing down Minnehaha Creek, battletrain shooting fire at the MayDay parade, iceberg lettuce eating competition and all the trees were blooming:
may in minneapolis is a delight :)
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22 Mar 2024
19 bar :( i don’t know the details but seeing it like this is breaking my heart.
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16 Feb 2024
“Minneapolis city officials didn’t want the homeless camping on city land, so they dumped concrete rubble across two lots”
so glad to see @katelyn_vue covering this @SahanJournal 👏
sahanjournal.com/housing/cam…
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31 Jan 2024
only the mentally ill will recognize her
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22 Dec 2023
Minnesota Public Radio spent $882,690 on anti-union law firm Jones Day for FY ending June 2022. Last year, the public radio station dissolved its unionized investigative unit APM Reports (that made In the Dark). It was also negotiating union contracts projects.propublica.org/nonp…
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11 Nov 2023
CONFIRMED: The next Saint Paul City Council will be entirely women — and majority women of color — making it the youngest, most progressive and most diverse in Saint Paul’s history.
Our full statement: tinyurl.com/HistoricSTPCounc…
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8 Nov 2023
Glad to run it back another year ❤️
8 Nov 2023
Minneapolis’ first independent Black socialist wins again! Congrats to @robin4mpls and @TwinCitiesDSA! Ward 2 is proudly sending her back for another term!
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8 Nov 2023
It’s once again the honor of my lifetime to have earned the trust of voters and keep leading Saint Paul forward.
I’m ready to keep building the city we believe in with you.
Thank you, Ward Four and all our incredible volunteers, staff and supporters. ⚡️
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