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Jon Tevlin

Columnist | Metro

Phone: 612-673-1702

Email: jtevlin@startribune.com

Jon Tevlin is a metro section columnist.

Tevlin: Love and lobbying: Where is the line crossed?

I think I know garbage when I smell it, and if you were near the Hennepin County Board meeting last...

Updated: June 18, 2013, - 09:28 PM

Tevlin: Worthington kids to finally meet their grandparents in Guatemala

They are 13 normal kids from Worthington, and they’ve grown up in the small southwestern city doing what most American...

Updated: June 15, 2013, - 10:01 PM

Tevlin: Minneapolis election 2013 defies forecasters

It was 2001, and neighborhood activists and political newcomers were shaking up the old guard DFL in Minneapolis City Council...

Updated: June 12, 2013, - 12:01 AM

Tevlin: Mpls. Roosevelt grad is already giving back

When Barite Gutama got up to give the valedictory speech at Minneapolis’ Roosevelt High School recently, she made a point...

Updated: June 10, 2013, - 10:36 PM

June 1: Tevlin: We will miss Michele Bachmann

Now that Rep. Michele Bachmann is calling it quits, who is left to save our incandescent light bulbs? No one,...

Updated: June 01, 2013, - 10:20 PM

Tevlin: All heck breaks loose after Macalester protests

The student protesters were all put on probation for the next semester and will not be allowed to participate in any extracurricular activities. That has some alumni angry.

Updated: May 28, 2013, - 11:19 PM

Retired Minnesota general not surprised by sex assaults in military

The stories of rape and assault in military ranks just keep coming. Over the past couple of weeks, there has...

Updated: May 28, 2013, - 08:56 AM

Tevlin: Minimum wage hike got lost in the politics

Over the past several months, groups that represent the working poor have been fighting to test the adage that a...

Updated: May 21, 2013, - 10:54 PM

Tevlin: Beer, football, students: How can you lose?

Losing money selling beer to students and football fans seemed so outlandish I dropped in at Town Hall Brewery and a few other establishments near the U to make sure they were still in business.

Updated: May 18, 2013, - 09:49 PM