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Roxane Battle

Roxane Battle has worked in local television news for more than 20 years and is a former television news anchor and reporter for the Minneapolis NBC-affiliate, KARE-TV, where she received several Emmy nominations and Minnesota press awards. She is married to a minister and consults, writes and produces for her husband's world-wide television broadcast. She covers the various communities within the Twin Cities area.

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Politics & Policy

Looking for a job? Harvey Mackay offers advice -- and a guarantee

By Roxane Battle | 02/22/10
The secret to success really is no secret at all.
Politics & Policy

What can a little cup o' joe do in a recession? Create jobs

By Roxane Battle | 04/29/09
A Caribou-Rasmussen College partnership is helping kids go to school — and Urban Ventures' JavaKid Café is providing a place for that first job.
Politics & Policy

Medicine or malarkey? A collection of fascinating potions and devices

By Roxane Battle | 04/27/09
From the "Electro-Metabograph," which claimed to diagnose and cure any disease — yes, any — to an electrified cap that sold as a cure for baldness, Dr. Jeff Gorman's medical-device collection is a study in turn-of-the-century medical quackery.
Politics & Policy

Disco and dinosaurs stayin' alive at St. Louis Park's Roller Garden

By Roxane Battle | 02/24/09
Forty years on, the same mirrored disco ball still hangs in the center of the rink, and the big green dinosaur once anchored atop the building's roof is now on display inside.
Politics & Policy

A former fashionista's take on Oscar Minnesota

By Roxane Battle | 02/23/09
As usual, fashion had a starring role at the 81st Academy Awards. (Was it just me, or did Hollywood seem to be in glam hyperdrive?)
Arts Arena

Aspiring actors or moral agents: Hmong panelists look back at their roles in 'Gran Torino'

By Roxane Battle | 02/23/09
Bee Vang approached his co-starring role in the movie "Gran Torino" the same way he prepares for his pre-med exams at the University of Minnesota. "I studied the script like it was a textbook," the Minnesota native told several hundred people atten
Arts Arena

U to host panel with Hmong actors from 'Gran Torino'

By Roxane Battle | 02/19/09
What’s it like to be age 17 and star in a movie with Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood? No doubt that’s a question Bee Vang gets a lot.
Politics & Policy

Ways to cope with winter's chill: Stock up on pixie dust

By Roxane Battle | 02/04/09
Hang in there. It'll be over soon. One more month or two to go. In the meantime, in a word, this winter has been relentless. You know it's bad when 20 degrees above zero — rather than below — is considered balmy.
Politics & Policy

Beyond race: What Michelle Obama means to me

By Roxane Battle | 01/26/09
By now all 100 tons of inaugural garbage have been removed from the Washington Mall, a sign that the collective dust has now settled.
Politics & Policy

Inauguration parties: Mavericks for Obama

By Roxane Battle | 01/21/09
After crashing five local parties over the course of three days, my inaugural escapade came to a perfect end last night with a champagne toast in the presence of tuxedoed and gowned self-proclaimed Obama Mavericks.