Jennifer Brooks
Metro Columnist at The Minnesota Star Tribune
Minnesota Star Tribune columnist 🥳 Your source for dumpster fires. I think you're pretty great. Mostly @stribrooks-ing on other platforms these days.
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1 week ago |
startribune.com | Jennifer Brooks
Grandpa Brooks counted his pennies. He owned a little pharmacy in Chicago and he liked to sift through the till, hunting for interesting coins. Wheat pennies. Indian head pennies. Buffalo nickels. The steel pennies they minted during World War II when America needed its copper for ammunition. His coin collection - a gym bag full of wheat pennies and whatnot - passed to my dad.
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2 weeks ago |
startribune.com | Jennifer Brooks
Out of all the stars in the sky, out of all the bones beneath our feet, Minnesota lawmakers chose only the best. Minnesota deserves the best, which is why choosing state symbols has always been a knock-down, drag-out fight at the Legislature. You try getting a room full of people to agree on which muffin captures the essence of an entire state.
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2 weeks ago |
startribune.com | Jennifer Brooks
By Jennifer Brooks From Kristi Noem - the governor who made South Dakota Great Again by moving far, far away - a modest proposal. Noem's Department of Homeland Security is mulling a pitch from a "Duck Dynasty" producer about a reality television program where immigrants compete for a shot at citizenship. That's right. America may be ducked. Are you not entertained?
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2 weeks ago |
startribune.com | Jennifer Brooks
By Jennifer Brooks The rest of the world doesn't seem mad at American tourists. If anything, they just seem to feel sorry for us. The Minnesota Star Tribune The rest of the world doesn't seem to be mad at American tourists. If anything, they just seem to feel a bit sorry for us. (Jennifer Brooks/The Minnesota Star Tribune) I had an entire row to myself on the half-empty flight across the Atlantic.
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3 weeks ago |
startribune.com | Jennifer Brooks
There was bad news for one of the best things that happened in Minneapolis this year. Bike thieves hit the new Minneapolis Cargo Bike Library last week. The venture allows people to borrow cargo bikes and cargo e-bikes for a week, for free. Would you steal a bike from these dogs?
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That's a wrap for me on Twitter. Don't quite have the heart to erase 13 years and 30,000-plus solid gold tweets so I'm just locking up and turning off the lights. God, we used to have fun here, didn't we? I'm @stribrook-ing on Bluesky these days🦋See you there!
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