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Jon Tevlin is a metro section columnist.

Tevlin: Forgiveness, hope win out over crime in juvenile court

Sally Packard had waited seven months to get the chance to talk to the teenager who stole her car, and with it some of her independence.

Updated: March 17, 2012, - 05:35 PM

Tevlin: City Hall sides with not-ready-for-high-density Linden Hills

The residents of Linden Hills fought developer Mark Dwyer in the fer-cute streets of their neighborhood, they fought him on the manicured front lawns with signs, they fought him on the Internet and in the city's planning division, but they finally won the battle where it mattered -- at City Hall.

Updated: March 13, 2012, - 11:14 PM

Tevlin: In Rep. Franson's district, 'animals' also known as constituents

When Rep. Mary Franson compared people who get food stamps to animals in the wild, beholden to humans who feed them, she was being blissfully ignorant of a growing number of people who live in a certain region in Minnesota.

Updated: March 10, 2012, - 07:38 AM

Tevlin: Think politics can't sink lower? Well, www.thinkagain ...

I think all of us, regardless of political orientation, can agree that it can't possibly get any worse in politics, that the level of crass, petty sniping has finally driven our opinion of the people who represent us to the ultimate bottom.

Updated: March 06, 2012, - 09:39 PM

Tevlin: It's the end of the line for the men living at Lee's

C.T. Wiggins walked through a clean, carpeted common space adorned with paintings of deer and ducks, giving a short oral history of life above Lee's Liquor Lounge just southwest of Target Field. The door to each room was splayed open, revealing empty rooms where a dozen men once lived, some for 20 years.

Updated: March 03, 2012, - 09:43 PM

Tevlin: Polar political opposites unite in Little Falls fight

The 1-percenter joined up with the 99-percenter to take on City Hall over sign ordinances.

Updated: February 29, 2012, - 07:52 PM

Tevlin: Bumper crop of 'nimbys' sprouts around plans for urban farms

The first onions and alliums are already planted in this urban farmland, tucked into greenhouses or under grow lights in people's basements. Soon, the trays of delicate starts might be moved outside to "hoop houses" to begin to harden.

Updated: February 28, 2012, - 10:13 PM

Disabled and independent, but for how much longer?

Charles Van Heuveln has worked under a program called Medical Assistance for Employed Persons with a Disability. In May, however, Van Heuveln turns 65 and will have to retire and lose his health insurance.

Updated: February 18, 2012, - 11:49 PM

Tevlin: These chocolate candies come with maker's heartfelt thanks

For many of us, the heart symbol is a bit of a ubiquitous cliché today; it says love about as meaningfully as a candy cane says Christmas.

Updated: February 13, 2012, - 08:54 PM

Tevlin: Rep. Walz settles for teeth, but no bite, on insider bill

Congressman Tim Walz was on his way to teach a class at Byron High School on Friday morning, fresh off what appeared to be a huge legislative victory. On Thursday, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill co-authored by the First District Democrat that aims to clarify that members of Congress are not allowed to use nonpublic information gained on the job to enrich themselves in the stock market.

Updated: February 11, 2012, - 06:53 PM