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The Waitingnew
Star Tribune staffers bide their time; the Guild gears up for a fight.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Steve Perry |
01-25-2007 |
Media
Tags: media
McClatchy Star Tribune: RIP. WTF?new
Pruitt's Folly, big-paper blues, and the invasion of the stripper-flippers: notes on the deal that rocked the daily newspaper business
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Steve Perry |
01-09-2007 |
Media
Tags: media
Bird Flu 'Just Continues to March'new

Dr. Michael Osterholm of the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy discusses the flu bug that could bring the world to its knees.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Steve Perry |
03-21-2006 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Bin Laden's Gamenew

Most officials thought last month's Osama bin Laden tape was no big deal, but Michael Scheuer, who founded the CIA's bin Laden unit 10 years ago, thinks they're dead wrong.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Steve Perry |
02-15-2006 |
International
Tags: international
Many Thousands Gonenew
The first disaster was the hurricane. The second was the federal government's response.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Steve Perry |
09-07-2005 |
Disasters
Tags: disasters
The O'Hannity Factornew
Why has the Terri Schiavo case received more media saturation coverage than any other right-to-die case? The answer appears to lie in the efforts of Fox News and the Bush family and the pack tendencies of the media at large.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Steve Perry |
04-06-2005 |
Media
Tags: media
Special Agent Jane Turner vs. the FBInew
Before Coleen Rowley, there was another whistleblower who rose from the ranks of the Minneapolis FBI division. Retired agent Jane Turner describes the Bureau's good old boy management culture -- and how it goes about silencing its internal critics.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Steve Perry |
10-07-2004 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Jr., Federal Bureau of Investigation, COINTELPRO, amber alert, fitness of duty, intimidation, Louis Freeh, of J. Edgar Hoover, of surveillance, Patty Wetterling, post-traumatic stress, Robert Mueller, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Tiffany crystal globe, World Trade Center artifacts, crime & justice