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6 unusual facts about Star Tribune


Bryant McKinnie

In the summer of 2011, McKinnie was placed on the Vikings' non-football injury list for reportedly showing up to camp out of shape, according to The Star Tribune.

Esther Heideman

The Boston Globe reported that Heideman possesses a "drop dead gorgeous voice." The Washington Post wrote that Heideman sings in "sweet tones, like an angel." The Star Tribune called her a "silvery-voiced" singer.

Jeremy Messersmith

In 2010, Messersmith's Reluctant Graveyard was named one of the Top 10 Albums of 2010 by NPR, Top 25 Videos of 2010 by Paste Magazine, and also won the Star Tribunes Critics Poll for Best Local Artist.

Selena Roberts

Roberts began her career as a beat writer for the Minnesota Vikings at the Minneapolis Star Tribune and for the Orlando Magic and Tampa Bay Buccaneers at the Orlando Sentinel.

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Jim Klobuchar – Minneapolis Star-Tribune columnist and father of U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar, D-MN

Têtes Noires

In 2007, Jon Bream, music critic for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, called them the "late, almost-great 1980s arty popsters".


Harry Joseph Flynn

In May 2005, Archbishop Flynn publicly criticized Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty in the Star Tribune for what he perceived as irresponsible tax policies.

John Cowles, Jr.

Cowles sat on the boards of directors of the The Associated Press and Columbia University's Pulitzer Prizes and had been CEO of Cowles Media Company, founded by his grandfather and until 1998 the parent of the Star Tribune.

Minnesota Rouser

It was the subject of a 1909 contest held by the Minnesota Daily and the Minneapolis Tribune to write a suitable song for Minnesota football games, to replace the hymnlike "Hail! Minnesota".

Sid!

Sid!: The Sports Legends, the Inside Scoops, and the Close Personal Friends is an autobiography of Star Tribune sports columnist Sid Hartman.

Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy

Star Tribune columnist Katherine Kersten spurred an inquiry into TiZA by the Minnesota Department of Education after her column suggested the school had violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution by teaching religion in the schools.


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U.S. Congressional staff edits to Wikipedia

On August 16, 2006, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that the office of Representative Gil Gutknecht tried twice—on July 24 and August 14, 2006—to remove a 128-word section in the Wikipedia article on him, replacing it with a more flattering 315-word entry from his official congressional biography.