In the classroom at 53, amid the freshmen
So what’s it like for a 53-year-old college senior who winds up in two classes entirely of freshmen?
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David Brauer authors Braublog and is MinnPost’s local media reporter. He has covered media and politics as a writer and editor since 1983 for City Pages, the Southwest/Downtown Journal, KFAN and KSTP-AM, Mpls.St.Paul, Minnesota Monthly, Law & Politics, the Business Journal, KARE11 and national outlets.
Star Tribune CEO fights Dayton’s business sales tax
Mike Klingensmith estimates a sales-tax expansion could cost the recently stabilized paper up to 40 percent of its pre-tax earnings.
Karma’s knife-twist: I have to take freshman comp
How does an aging student go about going back to school? With shamelessness and a rueful appreciation of fate.
Amy Koch media saga: Who did what and when
There’s media deliciousness in the fascinating tale of how information moved in the fall of the former state Senate majority leader.
Return to the U: The Confession
Today marks my first First Day of School since the Reagan administration. (Am I nervous? Yes.)
In a massive winter power outage, how would Minnesotans heat their homes?
With a cold snap on the way, consider this: New federal rules require electric-dependent furnaces and boilers.
Jeff Dubay hired as 1500 ESPN co-host
The former crack cocaine abuser gets new professional life on a new sports station, but how well will he wear professionally and personally?
Fall 2012 radio ratings: What’s going on with talk?
After a year of music-station reprogramming, nearly every local talk station’s are down.
Fighting for relevance, 1500 ESPN shuffles lineup
With ratings slumping and Twins rights gone, Hubbard Broadcasting moves Joe Soucheray out of afternoon drive.
If Ryan strikes a Star Tribune land deal for Wells Fargo, keep your eye on the subsidy
Ryan’s dreamscape described as office buildings, a parking ramp, two full blocks of public parkland — and potentially more public subsidy.
Star Tribune denies own land-sale story, but what if deal goes through?
I don’t do a “Media Year in Review,” but if I did, here’s a great new entrant: “Star Tribune denies own story.”
Minnesota news media: Who tops the Twitter 1,000
I will follow: MinnPost’s first rankings of 1,040 local media Twitter accounts.
PPP Polling, Minnesota editorial pages nail state election
Who says pollsters are wrong and newspaper editorial pages have no effect?
Star Tribune editor: ‘If you want to campaign, put down your journalist’s badge’
Social networking earns staff rebuke from editor Nancy Barnes.
Super-crosstabs! Obama soars, Photo I.D. plunges, Marriage Amendment slips
Out of nowhere, the Voter I.D. amendment has become a nail-biter.
Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe quits Pioneer Press blog after marriage amendment editorial
Reporter Tom Webb also criticizes paper for straining-at-the-leash marriage amendment support.
Small-town Minnesota publisher supports gay marriage, loses subscribers
At the Swift County Monitor-News, a 1,500-word editorial caused the equivalent of 1,000 major-paper cancellations.
Obama-Romney, Minnesota gay marriage polls: the crosstabs
With a new poll showing the president back in a comfortable lead in Minnesota and the marriage amendment a nail-biter, the details behind the numbers.
Minnesota newspapers on marriage, voting amendments: a resounding ‘No’
Minnesotans may be split on this fall’s two proposed constitutional amendments, but Minnesota’s newspapers are not.
Digital boosts Pioneer Press, Star Tribune circulation — but local web use mixed
Each Twin Cities daily could take good news from Tuesday’s Audit Bureau of Circulations reports.
