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Katherine Kersten

Columnist  |  Local News

Phone: 612-673-1774

E-mail: kkersten@startribune.com

Katherine Kersten is a local columnist for the Star Tribune. Her columns appear Wednesday and Sunday or Monday. She also writes the Think Again blog.

Recent content from Katherine Kersten

• Becoming an instrument of hope
  A young girl's music is inspiring - as is her story of becoming a pianist against the odds.
  Oct 15, 2008
• Sustainability can be a warm, fuzzy word that invites tyranny
  Today's socially conscious student finds it tough to keep up with all the latest buzzwords.
  Oct 12, 2008
• What's behind meltdown? The automobile
  This is where the rubber really meets the road as we search for the villains behind the mortgage and financial market crises.
  Oct 8, 2008
• Counter-cultural education in a one-room school
  Remember the old one-room schoolhouse? We've moved far beyond it, right? Not John DeJak and Dale Ahlquist, who are back in a one-room school, aiming to start an education revolution in St. Louis Park with 11 students.
  Oct 6, 2008
• Cancer survivor turns questions into answers
  Four years ago, Michelle Morey of Orono pulled a muscle while working out at the gym. A lump in her chest stood out. But she didn't worry. It was just a knot in the muscle, she was sure.
  Oct 1, 2008
• RNC anarchists had friends in 'peaceful' protest groups
  Critics would have us believe that thousands of earnest grandmas gathered peacefully in St. Paul throughout the convention to exercise their First Amendment rights.
  Sep 28, 2008
• Katherine Kersten: Storm brewing between state officials and TiZA school
  Last week, Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TiZA) and the Minnesota Department of Education appeared to reach an understanding in the controversy over whether Islam is being promoted at this public school.
  Sep 11, 2008
• Katherine Kersten: Visitors from democracy's outposts soak up RNC
  Will John McCain's vice-presidential selection add a few critical electoral votes? How will the GOP's energy policy play in Ohio and Florida?
  Sep 5, 2008
• Innovative thinking on RNC morning beat
  A national political convention is about four things -- the nominee's coronation ceremony, parties, speeches, and protests. That covers about 99.5 percent of what you'll see reported in the media.
  Sep 4, 2008
• Katherine Kersten: Hawaii's guv joins Palin in labor -- for reform, baby
  You know it's not politics-as-usual when you're attending a meeting of the nation's governors and one of them goes into labor. When -- just a few months later -- that new mother is preparing to speak to the Republican National Convention as the party's vice-presidential candidate, you know that politics-as-usual is gone for good.
  Sep 3, 2008

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