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"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
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
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
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
Everything You Know About Taxes is Wrongnew
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Cay Johnston, author of Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich--and Cheat Everybody Else, discusses the damage our reverse Robin Hood tax scheme is doing to 99 percent of Americans, and about the perils posed to democracy by the growing inequalities of the system.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Beth Hawkins |
01-26-2005 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Psychologist Discusses the Failure of Antidepressantsnew
Claims for the effectiveness of antidepressants are highly exaggerated, says Michael Browne, who has written a paper on the medicalization of emotional distress. When a psychologist recommends an antidepressant to a patient, it detracts from the credibility of therapy, he contends.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Beth Hawkins |
06-02-2004 |
Science
