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Warren Wolfe

Reporter | Aging and health-care policy

Phone: 612-673-7253

At the Star Tribune, Warren Wolfe has been a copy editor, assistant city editor, team leader and roving state feature writer and covered agriculture before moving to the aging beat. He has written extensively about caregiving, nursing homes, Medicare, Medicaid, and state and national policies on health care and aging.
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The personal costs of budget cuts

The new budget holds out the hope of major reforms -- but first thousands who are aged or disabled must absorb another round of cuts.

Updated: August 16, 2011, - 09:59 PM

Berglin to leave Minnesota Senate

Over 38 years, Linda Berglin helped develop many of the state's safety net programs. The DFLer said she felt "underutilized" of late.

Updated: July 25, 2011, - 09:30 PM

Scrabble fan, 112, is state's oldest

"Super-centenarian" Ruth Anderson marks milestone with another game.

Updated: July 22, 2011, - 10:19 PM

Tapping retirees to tackle problems

The volunteers have matched St. Cloud elders and second-graders who read to each other, expanded fresh foods at an emergency food shelf in Lakeville and created a website to help people reduce energy consumption.

Updated: July 22, 2011, - 11:03 AM

Elbow grease ahead for budget bill

Legislators face a huge pile of work before shutdown can end.

Updated: July 15, 2011, - 11:05 PM

Elders at risk during hot spell

A cadre of volunteers will fan out across Minneapolis and St. Paul Saturday morning to visit about 185 very frail elders. They'll bear flowers, cookies, puzzles and other gifts -- and offering health checks as temperatures head toward 100 in the next few days.

Updated: July 14, 2011, - 11:05 PM