Jon Tevlin
Columnist | Metro
Phone: 612-673-1702
E-mail: jtevlin@startribune.com
Jon Tevlin is a metro section columnist.
Recent content from Jon Tevlin
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$11 mistake earns 0.0% sympathy from Citigroup
While Citigroup's CEO was announcing the company would pay back $20 billion in bailout money so it could escape increased oversight, a Minneapolis man received a letter from a Citigroup subsidiary denying his request to forgive a minor miscue on a "zero interest" loan.
Dec 16, 2009 -
The homeless may die alone, but each year brings a salute
For the past five years, John Petroskas has been keeper of the list. The list of the dead.
Dec 12, 2009 -
Jon Tevlin: Prosecutor in Petters case is a 'pint-sized Elliot Ness'
A couple of days after he'd won the biggest case of his career against Tom Petters, and the largest fraud case in state history, I met Joe Dixon, assistant U.S. attorney, for coffee and asked him how he was doing.
Dec 8, 2009 -
High demand for aid exceeds folks' supply of empathy
He was just a kid then, but he can still vividly remember the day he walked into the Kenny's Market on Franklin Avenue and bought a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread with what looked like Monopoly money.
Dec 7, 2009 -
Desert reflection in Death Valley
Encounters with unforgiving nature - and a few unlikely characters - unfold amid the otherworldly landscape of California's Death Valley National Park.
Nov 28, 2009 -
Neighbors rally to give dad, family an early holiday
It is Friday, and Michael Talley rises slowly from the easy chair in the living room and makes his way to the kitchen for a drink of water.
Nov 28, 2009 -
Paul Metsa: A raconteur whose legend has been largely unsung He's a legend who's lived 30 years on the edges of the music scene
Paul Metsa's kitchen is a vignette of haphazard domesticity, as though Martha Stewart has given it up to a couple of frat boys. Pots and pans from some recent culinary experiment sit on the stove. Open boxes of Cheerios and Ritz crackers stand on the refrigerator in dangerous proximity to cat food that looks like Chex Mix.
Nov 24, 2009 -
For Lutheran gang, this lefse and lutefisk meal is golden
How Swede it is: a half-century of lefse, herring and a little Akavit on a Wisconsin farm.
Nov 18, 2009 -
Proud flags flew despite prayer dispute at school
The flag waving goes on without the praying: Chalk one up for the Constitution.
Nov 14, 2009 -
Viking spends his down time lifting others up
Madieu Williams quietly makes his mark and redefines the notion of giving 100 percent with a $2 million gift to his alma mater for health care research
Nov 10, 2009
