AltWeeklies Wire
"Little Court of Horrors"new
AltWeeklies Award - Drugs Reporting
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Beth Hawkins |
04-21-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
The Adoption Scamnew
Reaching Arms International claimed to specialize in placing European orphans, but prospective parents say they've been left heartbroken.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Beth Hawkins |
05-23-2007 |
Children & Families
Tags: children & families
Swan Songs at the Star Tribunenew
Will the departure of several prominent bylines hurt the Minneapolis paper's relationship with its readers?
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Beth Hawkins |
03-22-2007 |
Media
Tags: media
What Does Your Choice of Grocery Store Say About You?new
The weekly shopping run has become inextricably bound up with the modern shopper's identity -- the choice is about money, certainly, but it's also about tribe.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Beth Hawkins |
03-08-2007 |
Food+Drink
Tags: supermarkets, Whole Foods
Who's Got the Inmate?new
Under budgetary pressure, Minnesota's prisons transfer costs -- and prisoners -- back to counties.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Beth Hawkins |
02-01-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Workfare Revolt?new
Minnesota's welfare-to-work program draws increasing fire.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Beth Hawkins |
01-18-2007 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Political Freightnew
A host of Minnesota politicians say pork-barrel spending on a railroad expansion project threatens the Mayo Clinic.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Beth Hawkins |
12-21-2006 |
Politics
Get Rich With Godnew
Pastor Mac Hammond's suburban megachurch preaches heavenly financial rewards in the here and now -- if you've got the faith to give till it hurts.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Beth Hawkins |
12-14-2006 |
Religion
Tags: religion
Don't Throw Away the Keynew
Do you want to know a secret about sexual psychopaths? They're not the ones committing most of the sex crimes.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Beth Hawkins |
11-30-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Eric Janus, Failure to Protect
Reading, Writing and Righteousnessnew
That teacher who made the news for coming out to his second-grade class? My son is in that class.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Beth Hawkins |
10-20-2006 |
Education
Tags: Education
America's Most Wanted Dadnew
When a serial rapist escaped from a mental hospital, someone had to take a perp walk -- why not arrest the escapee's father?
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Beth Hawkins |
10-20-2006 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
A Prescription for Mayhemnew
Before Stephen Miles killed his stepmother with a hatchet and decapitated her with a knife, he tried to check himself into the hospital and was refused.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Beth Hawkins |
01-11-2006 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Down in Flamesnew
While Northwest CEO Doug Steenland appears before the Senate Finance Commitee requesting a "freeze" on employee pensions, Northwest brass stand to retire in style, with executives receiving six-figure-a-year pension benefits.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Beth Hawkins |
07-13-2005 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
When Pigs Flynew
Remember those aircraft maintenance jobs Northwest Airlines promised Minnesota over a decade ago? They never materialized -- and much of that work is now outsourced to seldom-inspected overseas firms.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Beth Hawkins |
04-21-2005 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Safe Child Syndromenew
Behold the most controlling, anxiety-ridden, over-involved generation of parents ever. They're protecting their kids to death.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Beth Hawkins |
03-28-2005 |
Children & Families
Tags: children & families
