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Dave Hage

Team leader | Health care, the environment, social issues
Phone: 612-673-7108

Dave Hage has written about labor, economics and medicine for more than 30 years at publications including the Star Tribune, the New York Times, the Nation and US News & World Report. As an editor or reporter, he has been a Pulitzer Prize winner once and a finalist twice.


Hage has written or co-written three books, including "No Retreat, No Surrender,'' a chronicle of American labor in the 1980s, and "Reforming Welfare by Rewarding Work,'' a book about poverty and welfare reform in the 1990s. He lives with his wife, Therese, in St. Paul, with grown children in New York, Minneapolis and Washington, D.C. He got his start in journalism as a jazz critic and eagerly awaits the next new Coltrane record.
Recent content from Dave Hage
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Review: What happens when a celebrity doc eats junk food for 30 days? (Nothing good)

"Ultra-Processed People" investigates how the products of food science are harming consumers.

How great a killer is COVID?

Some comparisons show what we face.
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission met to consider alternative routes on the proposed Sandpiper pipeline across northern Minnesota to carry Bak

Winona LaDuke turns to hemp farming, solar power to jump-start the 'next economy'

"I wanted to have goats, too, but the kids sort of drew the line at that," she laughs. "I'd say the jury is still out on goats."
Food for the taking and an invitation to leave food is in front of a south Minneapolis home Monday, March 23, 2020 as Minnesotans care for others duri

Albert Camus helps us understand our responses during this crisis

In his short novel "The Plague," his characters have their courage and moral principles tested, much like we're experiencing now.
A street entertainer just off the Royal Mile during the 70th edition of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, Aug. 13, 2017. Edinburgh’s F

Tips for making the most of the Edinburgh International Festival and the larger Fringe that it spawned

How to bring order to the chaos of the Edinburgh International Festival and its concurrent Fringe.
The working class Sanita neighborhood, once considered too dangerous to visit, now attracts tourists to its stunning churches and catacombs.

Discovering the Baroque beauty of a revived Naples

Cleaner and safer than it was 20 years ago, the city is a storehouse of art and history.

Naples renewed

Cleaner and safer than it was 20 years ago, the city is a storehouse of art and history.
A high Yorkshire fell rises behind the River Wharfe and the five-arch bridge, a well-known landmark in Burnsall. Photo by Dave Hage * dave.hage@startr

Walking through the Yorkshire countryside on a very British vacation

On the path of cozy pubs and classic landscapes in Yorkshire.

Walking through the Yorkshire countryside

On the path of cozy pubs and classic landscapes in Yorkshire, England.
FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 20, 1977 file photo, President Jimmy Carter waves to the crowd while walking with his wife, Rosalynn, and their daughter

Former adviser takes a fresh look at Jimmy Carter in new biography

NONFICTION: A tough-minded and clear biography concentrates on ex-president's stumbles as well as successes.
Elizabeth Rush Photo by Stephanie Alvarez Ewens

Review: 'Rising,' by Elizabeth Rush

NONFICTION: Elizabeth Rush brings a literary touch to a scientific tragedy with "dispatches" from across the U.S.
Jefferson Morley, author of "The Ghost."

Minneapolis native's 'Ghost' is a gripping bio of a CIA spy hunter

NONFICTION: Minneapolis native recounts life of legendary chief of counterintelligence James Jesus Angleton.
Tour boats await passengers in downtown Amsterdam. Amsterdam's canals criss-cross the old city making it easy to see it by boat. The traditional house

A weekend in Amsterdam? Yes, please

Yes, you can spend a long weekend in this Dutch gem, with the help of direct flights and walking shoes. But it may leave you wanting more.
India- travel -FLOATING PALACE � The Lake Palace in Udaipur, once the summer palace for a royal family, is a posh hotel today.

In India, finding peace amid the maelstrom

Palaces and parks offer respite in spellbinding, pulsing India.
On Ted Turner�s vast Flying D Ranch in Montana, bison graze much as they did before the arrival of European settlers.

Can we save bison by eating them?

A small but growing number of bison producers — including billionaire-turned-philanthropist Ted Turner — want to preserve the great landscapes of the west by changing how America gets its protein.
Eventually, smelling the fresh air and pasture grass, the bison began emerging from the truck.

Yellowstone's purebred bison arrive in NE Montana

The Yellowstone herd is highly prized because it is genetically pure and the animals are descended from the continent's original wild bison.

Health beat: As health laws roll out, who's in?

A view on East San Francisco Street in Santa Fe, NM, toward the historic plaza and beyond, to the St. Francis Cathedral Basilica and the foothills of

Santa Fe: Chile paradise

Santa Fe provides the best kind of counterculture, where you can hike desert hills or streets lined with galleries and satisfy your after-workout appetite with delectable meals.

Health beat: In health care, an Rx for deficits?

Relief over the new federal budget deal has turned to cynicism almost overnight, with many saying that Washington has merely kicked its problem down the road.

Health beat: Is your house a healthy home?

In his years running the Children's Defense Fund of Minnesota, Jim Koppel was always thinking up ways to get more kids to the doctor.
The Flam Valley is one of Norway�s most scenic spots � and is traversed by what many consider the most beautiful train ride in Europe.

Norway on foot and fjord

A family travels to Norway with the ultimate tour guide: a Richfield man who was so struck by the country's beauty, he had to share it with others.

Patients bone up on joint surgery

Every class needs a class clown -- even Joint Replacement class at Regions Hospital in St. Paul -- and I had my money on the 40-something mom who sat across the table joking quietly with her teenage daughter.
Krystal Woods held her five-month-old daughter Me'yah Becker as nurse Barb Lentz checked on her prescriptions on a recent home visit.

Budget squeeze hits public health

Minnesota has fallen to 43rd nationally in state funding for public health, according to a nonprofit advocacy group.

2 more deaths from H1N1 are reported in Minnesota

Health officials still urging public to get vaccinated.

Businesses worry about health care mandates

Health care legislation under debate in Congress would require employers to offer health insurance - or pay a fee to the government. What do local employers think?

Nearly 1 in 4 Minnesotans without health insurance in 2007-08

Nearly one in four Minnesotans went without health insurance for some period during 2007-2008, a national advocacy group said Tuesday, a sign that rising costs are putting medical coverage beyond the reach of more consumers and employers.

Many in state doing without medical coverage, group says

Families USA says such numbers prove health insurance is becoming unaffordable.