Latest Spotty ™ winner has read Charles Dickens

May 25, 2018

Maybe we should consult the Ghost of Christmas Present

by Steve Timmer

Read the latest Spotty ™ winner

May 12, 2018

A man from Eden Prairie is the newest Spotty ™ winner

by Steve Timmer

Carol C. White wins the coveted Spotty ™

January 27, 2018

There is a new section in the Strib called Inspired. Last week, it featured a story about a local effort to ship books (new and used, fiction, non-fiction) to Africa. The group has done an impressive job; it won’t surprise you to know it’s called Books for Africa. There was something that nagged me a […]

by Steve Timmer

No Spotty ™ for you!

October 27, 2017

The letter of the day today in the Strib was a doozy, accompanied by a photo of Donald Trump waving as he boards Air Force One. Here it is: There is an old saying: “When you are on a plane, root for the pilot.” Good advice for the members of Congress, the media in general […]

by Steve Timmer

Strib letter writer wins a Spotty!

July 5, 2015

Last Sunday, Katherine Kersen — after a layoff that obviously allowed her to build up a head of steam — had a commentary in the Strib decrying sustainability as a heretical plot. Well, a lot of Strib readers parked that hanging curveball in the seats. Today, the Strib published six (6) of them; not one supported the […]

by Steve Timmer

A Spotty for pointing out a feat of legerdemain

April 28, 2014

Alex Hindin’s letter discussing the Strib’s Lee Schafer’s recent feat of legerdemain earns him the coveted Spotty™. Lee Schafer (“They vote Republican in the land of equality,” April 20) achieved what should be impossible — an extended discussion of voting patterns and income equality that ignores the prime determiner of both in America: race. The […]

by Steve Timmer

The latest Spotty ™ winner!

December 10, 2013

New category, too: video

by Steve Timmer

Woytanowitz wins Spotty!

November 11, 2013

The music will soar!

by Steve Timmer

An ensemble Spotty award

July 18, 2013

Accepting pennies on the dollar from outsiders and colonizers

by Steve Timmer

A retirement recommendation for the Pope

February 14, 2013

Wins a Spotty ™

by Steve Timmer

A Spotty ™ winner on gun control

December 15, 2012

Donald Bronsky’s brilliant and bitter letter to the editor in Saturday’s Strib wins a Spotty™. It is vital to remember that now is not the time to be discussing anything resembling tighter gun-control legislation. It is far too early, and emotions are running too deeply, to discuss anything that would even begin to limit the number of […]

by Steve Timmer

An (almost) election-eve Spotty winner!

November 3, 2012

Beware the “natural”

by Steve Timmer