Senior Producer for broadcast at MPR News. St. Paul via Chicago and D.C. He/Him
St. Paul, MN
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Current, which covers the public-media industry in the U.S., published a story today profiling my team and our work!
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A pretty rare PDS tornado watch 🌪️ for southern Minnesota today. It's an Oklahoma atmosphere overhead.
#mnwx
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Kinda hoping you found this tweet by looking up “aurora in Minnesota” in hopes of cool pics and stumbled upon a women’s soccer team instead.
In retrospect, it will seem inevitable that a huge spritzing cherry wrapped in a Canadian smoke haze would become the emotional centerpiece of Les Misérables 2: A Bridge Too Far.
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It seemed like the perfect plan until they realized no one remembered to lock down the SPOON Bridge.
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MN parents - what's the summer camp situation with all these air quality alerts? Are you pulling kids out of day camps? Are places canceling? Are camps attempting to keep kids indoors?
More special updates now from #Russia on @MPRnews in an extended edition of @bbcworldservice Newshour from 2-4pm. mprnews.org/listen
Special edition of @bbcworldservice Newshour airing this hour on @MPRnews re: what they know about the situation in #Russia.
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Hello Minnesota!
I've officially started as the early education reporter @MPRnews and I'm excited to dig into this topic.
Whether you're a community leader invested in early childhood, a teacher, or a parent reach out with ideas and info!
My email is [email protected]
These guys were my heroes growing up but all I can think about is why were their lockers so tiny?
Rick Sutcliffe's 1984 Cy Young season 🤯
20 Starts
16 Wins
7 CG
3 Shutouts
2.69 ERA
Happy birthday, @Sut_40!
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I don’t post on here much, but I am host the 9am show on @MPRnews this morning! Tune in at mprnews.org, or 91.1 FM if you’re in the twin cities!
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I forgot to post this on this nightmare site, but here's an explainer I wrote (separate from the main story about DOJ report on MPD), which covers what a Consent Decree is and means for Minneapolis. Get yourself up to speed before your weekend gatherings! mprnews.org/story/2023/03/27…
Two people I’ve learned a ton from in life are talking and laughing together on the radio right now. Gary Eichten interviews George Latimer on MPR News.
Audio here later: mprnews.org/episode/2023/06/…
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pls remember that behind pledge drives are a bunch of reporters and producers who need to eat and pay rent
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One of the most moving and significant elements in the reaction we got to Sold a Story was people who struggled to learn to read and assumed they had a learning disability. But now they are wondering - was it just that I wasn't taught HOW to read?
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I mean we’ll still have to see each other whenever Voyageurs National Park has a birthday or graduation or something and it’s our job to just be cool about it, ok? For the wolves.
ALT This is a map that’s going around (again). It shows a proposal for Republican parts of Minnesota to secede and join South Dakota. The dividing line appears to split Voyageurs National Park down the middle making for a complex joint custody arrangement. Park feels so isolated as it is and now this.
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NEW: Mayo Clinic will get a full exemption from the Keeping Nurses at the Bedside Act. Lawmakers say Gov. Tim Walz demanded it. Backstory: minnesotareformer.com/2023/0…
