Writings
Nick’s column StarTribune archive
Boxing Day: At last, a chance to let the season sink in (12-26-10)
Anniversary of a Mass Execution: Time to Consider How to Repair the Past (12-19-10)
Mark and Rudy: If We’re Lucky, Dayton Will Follow Perpich Path (12-12-10)
Will Steger and Antarctica Crew to Reunite and Re-ignite Climate Change Fight (12-5-10)
Tom Emmer Promises Not to Be Nutty about the Recount (11-28-10)
Stupid Times, Tough Turkey, Still Many Reasons to Give Thanks (11-21-10)
Minnesota Businesses Get The Best Legislature Money Can Buy (11-14-10)
Tony Baloney goes to war vs. the DFL and the TWO MARKS, Dayton & Ritchie (11-7-10)
Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Rally to Restore Sanity: Not So Funny, Maybe (10-31-10)
Another Self-immolation: Everything is in Flames (10-24-10)
Minneapolis’ North High School: Not Dying Naturally (10-17-10)
GOP Rep. John Kline: His Lips Are Sealed (10-10-10)
Michele Bachmann: Patron Saint of Good English Talkers, You Bet (10-3-10)
Elections For Sale: How much are we bid? WHO is bidding? (9-26-10)
Where are the Women At? Women’s Issues disappear in Election (9-19-10)
Campaign 2010: Just begun and already a Horror Show (9-5-10)
Nuclear Power proponents trying to go Back to the Future (8-29-10)
GOP video on “ugly” women? It’s all about who they vote for, Baby! (8-22-10)
The Little Bighorn: 124 years later, fight to understand the “last stand” continues (8-15-10)
The national parks: God’s country, with texting (8-8-10)
Bears in the woods: We can’t have it any other way (8-1-10)
Voters Slow-Roasted by Dog Days Primary Season (7-25-10)
Felons Tilting MN elections? If You Live in Conspiracy World (7-18-10)
Cell Phones in the BWCA: Can You Hear Me Now? Damn! (7-11-10)
Target Field: Gorgeous Ballpark Still a Terrible Deal for Taxpayers (7-4-10)
Urban Boatbuilders: Teaching Kids How to Paddle (and build) Their Own Canoe (6-27-10)
Thirty-eight Years late: British Admit Responsibility for that Awful Day, Bloody Sunday (6-20-10)
BP Oil Spill: If It Was the Gulf of China, Not Mexico, Heads Would Roll (6-13-10)
Fort Snelling: Minnesota Historical Society Should Stop Playing Games with Tragedy (6-6-10)
Twin Cities Elections: Huge margins, tiny turnouts, little to cheer about (11-08-09)
About Time: UN comes to Indian Country to inspect US shame (11-01-09)
Bad Idea: Public money to “save” journalism (10-25-09)
Voters Search for Middle Ground while Parties go to Extremes (10-18-29)
Bums’ Rush: Fall Sports Fever Amps Up Vikings Stadium Pitch (10-11-09)
Hunger pains: Food shelves being hit by rising demand as economy sinks (10-04-09)
2009 McCarthy Lecture: GOP renegade Hagel calls for end to the shouting (9-27-09)
Mad As Hell Doctors Want to Tick Us Off, Too (9-20-09)
Pawlenty Fiddles While Home Burns (9-13-09)
The Price of Our Soul: RNC Costs Outweigh The Bucks (9-06-09)
TPAW goes AWOL from Will Steger’s climate change crusade (8-30-09)
Media horde loses grip, goes ape for Brett Favre (8-23-09)
Health Care Debate Proves We Have Enough Nuts (8-16-09)
Charter Schools: Too Many, too many Bad Ones (8-09-09)
How I survived (barely) Summer Vacation (8-2-09)
Millions for New Signs; Not a Nickel For Common Sense (7-26-09)
TEAMSTER REBELLION: How the fireworks started (7-19-09)
“Chief” Bender: Minnesota’s First Nation All-Star (7-12-09)
Norm Coleman tries to exit gracefully. Too late (7-05-09)
In Heaven There Ain’t No Beer. None at the UofM, Either (6-28-09)
Want Honest Work? Start Digging (6-21-09)
World’s Longest Senate Election Now Most Annoying, Too (6-14-09)
Summer in Minnesota a Sanity Saver (6-07-09)
Pawlenty Kicks Poor While They’re Down (5-31-09)
Minnesota’s First Volunteers Need Recognition (5-24-09)
Life lived well ends abruptly in China (2-08-09)
Go, Move, Shift: No Poor Need Stand Here (2-05-09)
Jobless Join the Crowd at Jobless Centers (1-29-09)
Save a Millionaire: Help the Needy (1-25-09)
Minnesota on Trial: Coleman v. Franken recount trial begins (1-27-09)
Plan to end poverty will take little luck, lotta guts (1-22-09)
Budget cuts balance state on backs of the poor (1-18-09)
Moose Leads the Governors to Hockey Town Heights (1-15-09)
Once I was a newspaperman (1-08-09)
Time to end Coleman-Franken Mud Wrassle (1-06-09)
WILF WORLD: A Cure for Everything that Ails Us! (1-04-09)
NEW YEAR’S PREDICTIONS: 2009 (Still good!) (12-29-08)
A life list of ice arenas: 100+ and counting (12-23-08)
Making Friends the Tom Petters Way: Buying Them (12-21-08)
A Salute to My Heroes of 2008! (12-18-09)
Profile of Tim Pawlenty: Man in an Empty Suit (From MSP Magazine, Sept. ’08)