Randy Furst

Minneapolis

Reporter at The Minnesota Star Tribune

Randy Furst is a reporter at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis

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Bob Franklin, longtime Star Tribune journalist, dies at 87

2 months ago | startribune.com | Randy Furst

Bob Franklin, longtime Star Tribune journalist, dies at 87Bob Franklin taught journalism students and was active in Medina city affairs. And he preferred socks to shoes. Reporter Bob Franklin at his desk in the Star Tribune newsroom, 2006. (TOM SWEENEY/The Minnesota Star Tribune)Star Tribune journalist Bob Franklin loved a good yarn. There were the stories he wrote about the bachelors of Herman, Minn., who outnumbered single women by eight to one.
How this story came to be

Jan 31, 2025 | startribune.com | Randy Furst

In response to a Curious Minnesota inquiry, the Minnesota Star Tribune launched an investigation in late 2023 into the unsolved 1963 kidnapping and murder of Barbara Ann Foshaug and Melissa Ann Lee, and the subsequent law enforcement investigations into their deaths.
What happened to Barbara and Melissa? Minnesota Star Tribune revisits the unsolved 1963 murder of two Minneapolis girls

Jan 31, 2025 | startribune.com | Randy Furst

Randy Furst is a Minnesota Star Tribune general assignment reporter covering a range of issues, including tenants rights, minority rights, American Indian rights and police accountability.
To Jimmy Carter, she was ‘an extra-special person’; to her, the former president was ‘my hero and my friend’

Jan 8, 2025 | startribune.com | Randy Furst

Minneapolis attorney Lori Peterson visited the Carters many times and remained good friends with them for more than 40 years. January 8, 2025 at 2:00PMLori Peterson visits with former president Jimmy Carter at his home in Plains, Ga. (Lori Peterson)It was an unlikely friendship: a former president of the United States and an activist Minneapolis attorney who first met in 1981 when she was a high school student and he had just lost his reelection bid in a landslide.
Minnesota’s Metro Gang Strike Force was shut down in scandal. But did officers face punishment?

Dec 6, 2024 | startribune.com | Randy Furst

“Nobody talks and everybody walks,” one lawyer involved said about the fallout from a 2009 corruption probe. December 6, 2024 at 1:30PMMichael Campion, commissioner of the state's Department of Public Safety, shared concerns about the Metro Gang Strike Force during a meeting in 2009. (Elizabeth Flores/The Minnesota Star Tribune)Listen and subscribe to our podcast: Apple Podcasts | SpotifyA scandal-ridden Twin Cities law enforcement unit called the Metro Gang Strike Force imploded 15 years ago.
Harvey Feldman, passionate advocate for Twin Cities area parks and recreation, dies at 84

Nov 7, 2024 | startribune.com | Randy Furst

For more than five decades, Harvey Feldman was a passionate advocate for parks and recreation, which he believed were critical to a community’s well-being. He took great pride in the Minneapolis parks system, where he served as a top official for 20 years.
Ukrainian refugees giving blood in Minneapolis as thanks for U.S. support in conflict

Oct 28, 2024 | startribune.com | Randy Furst

About 50 Ukrainian refugees have signed up to donate blood on Saturday in Minneapolis as a way to give thanks to Americans for welcoming them to this country and for support in the face of Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine. The donated blood will then be given to the Children’s Hospital of Minnesota. The Ukrainian American Community Center, located at 301 NE Main St. in Minneapolis, has organized the event.
Mike Meyers, economics journalist and longtime Star Tribune reporter, dies at 75

Oct 13, 2024 | startribune.com | Randy Furst

Myers was hired as a reporter at the Binghamton (N.Y.) Evening Press in 1971. He plunged into the work, covering the economic impact of Hurricane Agnes in 1972 on Elmira, N.Y., which was devastated by flooding. “He got hooked” on covering economics, said Dave Beal, the business editor at the newspaper. Beal and his wife, Caroline, invited Meyers to their home for Thanksgiving his first year in Binghamton, and they became lifelong friends.
Joe Selvaggio, social change agent who started and led Project for Pride in Living, dies at 87

Sep 19, 2024 | startribune.com | Randy Furst

Joe Selvaggio in 1970, when he was head of Advocate Services, Inc., working as an ombudsman for the poor and minority-group members. (Russell Bull/The Minnesota Star Tribune)With the support of several local businesspeople, Selvaggio started Advocate Services, Inc. to lobby for civil rights and equal housing and protest the Vietnam War. About 100 people sent Selvaggio $2 to $25 a month to cover his work and living expenses.
Twin Cities attorney Michael Padden disbarred

Aug 14, 2024 | startribune.com | Randy Furst

Twin CitiesThe Minnesota Supreme Court disbarred Michael Padden, saying a range of misconduct was neither a brief lapse of judgment nor a single isolated incident. August 14, 2024 at 5:17PMAttorney Michael Padden, left, patted his client Dan Rassier at a press conference at the Marriott Northwest Hotel in Brooklyn Park on Nov. 22, 2016.

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