Friday January 4, 2013
Jeffrey Meitrodt
Investigations Editor
Phone: 612-673-4132
Since joining the Star Tribune in 2009, Jeff Meitrodt has overseen more than a dozen investigations, including coverage of after-school tutoring companies, synthetic drugs, doctor discipline and lakefront development. He is currently working on investigations centered in the business world. He previously worked at the Chicago Tribune and the New Orleans Times-Picayune, where he won national awards for his coverage of cronyism in Illinois government, widespread nepotism among Louisiana’s freewheeling fraternity of river pilots and massive abuses in government programs for women and minority business. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Minnesota.
Recent content from Jeffrey Meitrodt
Feds charge Duluth head shop owner
Four are charged more than a year after local officials identified the store as a key source of synthetic drugs in Minnesota.
Updated: December 18, 2012, - 09:39 PM
Forced insurance policies cripple Minnesota homeowners
Lenders slap struggling homeowners with sky-high insurance rates.
Updated: October 08, 2012, - 08:42 AM
Lenders' mistakes cost homeowners on flood insurance
Mortgage lenders are misinterpreting new FEMA maps to require homeowners to buy expensive, unwanted coverage.
Updated: July 30, 2012, - 09:27 AM
Duluth shows the risk of betting against floods
In a state where homeowners have long been averse to buying flood insurance, the risks of going without have never been starker.
Updated: June 24, 2012, - 11:10 PM
Part 3: Free laptops for kids, big money for tutors
Thanks to his daughter's troubled elementary school, Zhengjun Wang will return to China with a pricey souvenir from his family's yearlong stay in Rochester: a computer. | One-man dynamo has a shining record
Updated: June 05, 2012, - 02:45 PM
One-man dynamo has a shining record
In a tutoring market dominated by companies with high prices and questionable track records, Gary Davison stands apart.
Updated: June 04, 2012, - 11:28 PM
Part 2: Casual state vetting allowed tutor vendors to slip through
Minnesota's relaxed attitude in regulating the government's tutoring program burdened school districts with questionable companies. | With state waiver, schools get ready to dump program
Updated: June 04, 2012, - 02:32 PM
Part 1: Fraud, mismanagement hijack federal tutoring program
A decade of problems has failed students, schools and taxpayers.
Updated: June 04, 2012, - 01:19 PM
With state waiver, schools get ready to dump program
The federal government's tutoring program for low-income students at failing schools becomes optional next fall, and many educators in Minnesota can't wait to kill it.
Updated: June 02, 2012, - 10:10 PM
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