Friday January 4, 2013
Jon Tevlin
Columnist | Metro
Phone: 612-673-1702
Email: jtevlin@startribune.com
Jon Tevlin is a metro section columnist.
Recent content from Jon Tevlin
Tevlin: Here's hoping 2013 is when the shootings finally stop
One year ago I wrote about the slaying of 3-year-old Terrell Mayes and the heartbreak it caused his family and the community. Terrell was shot inside his house as he ran for cover after hearing gunshots in a nearby alley.
Updated: January 01, 2013, - 09:17 PM
Tevlin: Catching up with some folks who led charge for change in'12
Like everybody else this morning, I've eaten my last chocolate eclair, drunk my last glass of champagne and begun a more tolerant, pious and markedly less interesting life.
Updated: December 31, 2012, - 06:50 PM
Tevlin: Some advice on living from a dying heckler: Enjoy every day
Mike Samuelson -- "Sammy"-- was holding court for an ever-shifting group of visitors when someone walked in with a bag of White Castle hamburgers.
Updated: December 22, 2012, - 10:31 PM
Tevlin: Minn. law helps charities limit their exposure to clawbacks
Over the years, a very generous and well-known businessman showered Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities with money, more than $200,000 in all. For BBBS, which like most nonprofits struggled to keep its programs funded, it was welcome relief.
Updated: December 18, 2012, - 08:34 PM
Tevlin: A fundraiser for a real cause: Union leaders on suspension
The fundraiser Saturday in Oak Grove is for Brad Slawson Sr. and Brad Slawson Jr., the father-and-son team that led Teamsters Local 120 until being put on unpaid leave pending investigations
Updated: December 14, 2012, - 10:06 PM
Tevlin: In Minnesota again, Vargas asks to 'Define American'
Jose Antonio Vargas isn't coming back to Minnesota because he had such a good time here in October.
Updated: December 11, 2012, - 08:13 PM
Tevlin: Free speech matters when you don't agree with it
The Bentleyville Tour of Lights Christmas extravaganza sprawls across Duluth's Bayfront Festival Park, sparkling in the night sky.
Updated: December 08, 2012, - 10:13 PM
Tevlin: When the legal system takes too long to make the right call
As of last Monday, Nancy Fletcher can go back to her life, cleared and vindicated. But she's still traumatized, first by a man she believes drugged her in a bar, then by a system that didn't believe her.
Updated: December 03, 2012, - 08:04 PM
Tevlin: Of kickbacks, missing rum and a well-paid bar consultant
To paraphrase the slogan from a pirate-themed rum commercial, some local Teamsters seem to "have a little Captain in them," both literally and figuratively.
Updated: November 27, 2012, - 07:17 PM
Tevlin: A legendary nun ponders history, pickles at Mayo Clinic
Even though she's 93 and officially retired as hospital administrator in the 1980s, Sister Generose Gervais is conducting business from her office most days.
Updated: November 25, 2012, - 12:19 AM
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