Christopher Vondracek

RT @walkerorenstein: The pulltab prowlers!! https://t.co/1lYjDd5wJN

My dispatch yesterday from the Cathedral in Saint Paul: https://t.co/norreIc1u1

Mood in downtown Minneapolis today. At the donut shop near Target Center, clerk just said she was gonna sleep in her Naz Reid jersey tonight.

Still getting pulled back to the Ag Beat, got some cattle rustling charges coming down from Pequot Lakes, Minn. https://t.co/SXiQXKcRG4

Inaugural entry of the #TrucksOfWayneNE. Just spectacular. https://t.co/zuc1AMA0bL

Drove 6 hours to David City, Nebraska, my father’s homeland, for the grand reopening of the Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art. Trees blossoming in Schuyler, too. https://t.co/VcaFePOqPe

Just in time for a move to DC and actual packing of a house, “Packinghouse,” a new album from me at the piano, is now out. Songs from the roads of southern Minnesota. Playing at St Paul’s White Squirrel on Monday, April 21. https://t.co/dxJXa9mgk9

Down to my hometown to produce the latest story with assist from inexhaustible Redwood Falls-based @JpLawrence3 https://t.co/iPgswyR7j1

Either a swan song on the agriculture beat, or an auspicious beginning to my new role as Washington business correspondent for the @StarTribune, but here I am in my hometown of Wells, MN, talking to farmers on a bright April day. https://t.co/JYxJm5uacM

Feels fittingly absurd that on eve of my last day on the Minnesota agriculture beat I am stuck in traffic on the border of Minneapolis thanks to some wandering, ambassadorial turkeys. https://t.co/w4MVuMHtSW

In honor of my move from Agriculture Reporter for @StarTribune to our Washington D.C. Business Correspondent (with a literal move back east come end of April), here are some of the finer farm beat paintings encountered of late: soybeans in Sen. Tina Smith’s office, grain https://t.co/Z7OmIknQy0

New today: how USAID dismantling has reverberating impact on Midwestern farmers and heartland agribusiness https://t.co/qhEf7DwyDs

Hearing Four Seasons tonight up in Minneapolis from the Blooming Prairie radio station, feeling vertigo. I grew up in southern Minnesota listening to Twin Cities stations. Now I’m feeling geographically-reversed FOMO, like, what’s the party down in Dodge County tonight?

Pick-ups on the frozen lakes of western Minnesota.

We’ve now moved to perpetual ice shacks atop Minneapolis frozen lake season. Deep winter. (Also, a number of children moseying about the neighborhood with hockey sticks in hand, looking for ice.)

Today’s update from the walk around the Minneapolis skyway holiday concert series: we’ve had a financial services choir, an unattached harpist & flautist, a day school children’s choir, and one rogue, off Nicollet, simply playing a piano-only version of “Closing Time.”

RT @LauraMcCallumB: New ranking Dem on @HouseAgGOP is Minnesota @RepAngieCraig, who said: “We can lower food and energy costs for consumers…