Nick Woltman
Reporter at Pioneer Press
Mild-mannered reporter for @PioneerPress. News junkie. Generalist. Midwesterner. I'm also @PiPressArchives.
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1 week ago |
twincities.com | Nick Woltman
The murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin five years ago sparked outrage in the Twin Cities and around the world. A widely circulated video, which drew nearly universal condemnation, showed Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck for several minutes on the evening of May 25, 2020, even after the 47-year-old Black man lay motionless beneath him.
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2 weeks ago |
twincities.com | Nick Woltman
A pair of St. Paul parks will be renamed to reflect their sacred significance to the Dakota people. The City Council on Wednesday voted to change the names of Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary and Indian Mounds Regional Park to Wakáŋ Tipi and Wic̣aḣapi, respectively.
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1 month ago |
twincities.com | Nick Woltman
The Twin Cities may have escaped the severe weather forecast by meteorologists earlier this week, but the metro wasn’t so lucky 60 years ago. An outbreak of five tornadoes tore through the western and northern suburbs on the evening of May 6, 1965, killing 13 people and injuring hundreds more in what the St. Paul Dispatch described on its front page as a “night of terror.”A sixth twister struck the area between Glencoe and Lester Prairie, just west of the metro.
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1 month ago |
twincities.com | Nick Woltman
An out-of-towner driving past the Highland Bridge development on Ford Parkway in St. Paul today might be forgiven for wondering how the street got its name. Little evidence remains that more than 2,000 people once clocked in each day at the Ford Motor Company’s sprawling Twin Cities Assembly Plant, where blocks of apartment and condo buildings are now in various stages of construction. It’s been 100 years since the plant opened to great fanfare on the southwestern edge of the city.
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1 month ago |
yahoo.com | Nick Woltman
An out-of-towner driving past the Highland Bridge development on Ford Parkway in St. Paul today might be forgiven for wondering how the street got its name. Little evidence remains that more than 2,000 people once clocked in each day at the Ford Motor Company’s sprawling Twin Cities Assembly Plant, where blocks of apartment and condo buildings are now in various stages of construction. It’s been 100 years since the plant opened to great fanfare on the southwestern edge of the city.
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A truly great journalist and an even better person. Rubén was a giant.
Rubén Rosario, New York crime reporter, Pioneer Press columnist and journalism mentor, dies at 70 https://t.co/PqbGbD5uTQ
Here's a little something I've been working on for the past few months.
With our 175th birthday coming up next year, we dipped into the Pioneer Press photo archive to bring you "Twin Cities Snapshots," a hardcover photographic history book featuring more than 250 images by PiPress photographers. Available for pre-order here: https://t.co/At2W0PtJOU
RT @angolds: Watching the entire @CWAUnion rise in support of the Pittsburgh strikers was one of the most incredible things I've witnessed…
