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Sharon Schmickle

Sharon Schmickle is an award-winning journalist with 30 years of experience covering local, national and international news. Through 2007, Sharon was a reporter for the Minneapolis Star Tribune where her beats included the Washington Bureau during the 1990s and covering wars in Iraq and Afghanistan during the 2000s. She has reported from 25 countries on stories ranging from a tsunami in Thailand to restless youth in Egypt to an agricultural crisis in Kenya. As a MinnPost writer, she has covered science, politics, government and international news. She also has provided in-depth analysis of issues through a series of profiles.

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Politics & Policy

From U.S. to Europe: A changing of the guard on the frontier of physics

By Sharon Schmickle | 09/15/08
By Sharon SchmickleMonday, Sept. 15, 2008 Scientists at the CERN laboratory near Geneva are warming up their mighty Large Hadron Collider to begin smashing atoms and taking back their lead in physics.
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Seven years after attacks, bin Laden still in U.S. sights

By Sharon Schmickle | 09/11/08
By Sharon Schmickle | Sept. 11, 2008 Osama bin Laden has thwarted all efforts to capture or kill him. Thus, his mysterious shadow still looms prominently over our political debate and our security priorities.
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Climate change getting the attention of both parties

By Sharon Schmickle | 09/11/08
By Sharon Schmickle | Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008 Environmentalists are encouraged that both John McCain and Barack Obama agree that global warming is an urgent problem.
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Fannie-Freddie takeover: the 'bazooka' option

By Sharon Schmickle | 09/08/08
By Sharon Schmickle | Monday, Sept. 8, 2008 U.S. Treasury officials had hoped to avoid firing their big gun, but markets didn't respond sufficiently to less drastic steps taken earlier.
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Checking facts at the GOP convention

By Sharon Schmickle | 09/05/08
By Sharon Schmickle | Friday, Sept. 5, 2008 Savvy listeners know political speeches should be taken with a grain of salt. So let's fact-check some of the statements from this week's Republican National Convention in St. Paul.
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Palin reignites the culture war

By Sharon Schmickle | 09/04/08
By Sharon Schmickle | Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008 Although the Alaska governor sidestepped social issues in her speech, one of her roles in the campaign is to light a fire under social conservatives who were lukewarm on McCain.
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International press looks for clues of Palin's foreign-policy views

By Sharon Schmickle | 09/03/08
By Sharon Schmickle | Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008 Sarah Palin is mystifying the foreign press at the Republican National Convention as they seek answers to their questions about her positions on foreign policy, but can't find answers.
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One pregnancy, multiple debates

By Sharon Schmickle | 09/02/08
The revelation of Sarah Palin’s pregnant daughter is stirring passionate debate over abstinence-only sex education, teen pregnancy, family values, the judgment of Palin and John McCain, and more.
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America's paradox: We want religion in, but out, of politics

By Sharon Schmickle | 09/02/08
By Sharon Schmickle Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008 Americans agree in theory with the ideal of drawing a line between church and state. But it isn't clear where they want it.
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Protesters in Guantanamo orange march against torture

By Sharon Schmickle | 09/01/08
By Sharon SchmickleMonday, Sept. 1, 2008 The demonstration in St. Paul on Sunday was the first of several events scheduled during this convention week to challenge the government’s treatment of prisoners.