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Jay Boller

Five years ago four unemployed journalists started this company with $4,000 combined dollars—pretty cool, if you ask me!

Your buds at Racket took home eight awards from the Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists tonight, including three first-place W’s! Thanks to everyone who read and shared our stories and supported our work over the last year. We just love ya.

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In today's Flyover news roundup? All we're rounding up is Racket's performance at Tuesday's Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists Page One Awards ceremony.

Racket Racks Up 8 Trophies at the 2026 Local Journalism Awards - Racket

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🚨 50th & Nicollet Lustron house for sale! 🚨 New listing: www.edinarealty.com/homes-for-sa... Racket article from the archives:

Only 2,000 Lustron Corp. homes still exist today. Six of 'em are on the same block in south Minneapolis.

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Hey, What's the Deal with Those Metal Houses at 50th & Nicollet? - Racket

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Our @madisonmcvan.bsky.social was named "Young Journalist of the Year" by the Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists for her exemplary work in 2025. You can look back at some of that work below. minnesotareformer.com/briefs/refor...

We really, really do "wanna buy" this one...

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56 (!!!) sources. Nobody does it like @matoswk.bsky.social.

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From 2023:

To Gruchow, wild places like the Boundary Waters offered perspective and clarity: Where the dominance of humanity is undetectable, our assumed superiority is lost.

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If you would like to support the 28 newsroom workers affected by the Strib layoffs, here’s a link to donate: bit.ly/stribworkers

Support laid off Star Tribune workers! | Working Partnerships

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The Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists named Reformer reporter Madison McVan the state’s “Young Journalist of the Year” Tuesday for her work during 2025, when she covered a wide array of hi...

Reformer reporter Madison McVan named 'Young Journalist of the Year' • Minnesota Reformer

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The secluded Prior Lake property was built by Frank Lloyd Wright's right-hand man.

Wanna Buy a Usonian Masterpiece on 11 Acres of Twin Cities Parkland? - Racket

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As mining villains creep closer to the BWCA, we look to the wisdom of Paul Gruchow.

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What Are People For? The Imperiled Boundary Waters, Late MN Nature Writer Paul Gruchow, and Me. - Racket

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Alden Global Capital became involved with the PiPress 17 years ago. Minnesota's oldest newspaper has shrunk by over 80% since.

A Vampiric Hedge Fund Is Eating the Pioneer Press Alive - Racket

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In today's Flyover news roundup? All we're rounding up is Racket's performance at Tuesday's Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists Page One Awards ceremony.

Racket Racks Up 8 Trophies at the 2026 Local Journalism Awards - Racket

Partied in Dinkytown between 2000 and 2009? This is the sprawling oral history you didn't know you needed.

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We talked to 56 people about the U of M-adjacent music venue/pool bar/Tex Mex joint that, for one wild decade, imprinted 'fuzzy memories' on a generation of patrons.

‘I Felt Like I Was There 90% of the Time’: An Oral History of the Dinkytowner Café - Racket

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As much as I enjoy my job, the @PioneerPress could really use another local reporter or two. Tell Alden Global Capital we’re thin enough… contract negotiations commence Tuesday. Fair wages and staffing matter! Local news matters! That’s @MaryEDivine agreeing with me! #HedgeFund #localnews

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Frederick Melo, Reporter (TwinCities.com, Pioneer Press)