I really thought we had grown

April 5, 2019

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’ve found the journalists’ game of Buzkashi over the carcass of Mohamed Noor to be distressing and distasteful. The demand by journalists to see the disturbing and lurid body cam video as it is shown to the jury (and then undoubtedly reported and commented on while […]

by Steve Timmer

It’s vast! It’s sweeping! It’s ambitious!

November 11, 2018

What’s in a word?

by Steve Timmer

The longest, saddest, most defensive endorsement ever

August 10, 2018

The long and whiney road . . .

by Steve Timmer

What color are your herring?

May 20, 2018

Somebody might not get to see her dying mother. An ambulance might not be able to get through. A protester might get hurt. These and others are all reasons supporting the Elk River Republican Nick Zerwas’ bill to treat protesters blocking freeways more harshly than other violators. The scolds on the Strib’s editorial board are […]

by Steve Timmer

This is why you can’t get a majority opinion out of the Supreme Court

November 6, 2016

In the Op Ex section of the Strib on today, rather than trying to write a single editorial about What the Hell is Going On, they gave everybody some ink in signed pieces. They called it What, us worry? It was pretty good, really. I can only imagine the editorial board meeting leading up to […]

by Steve Timmer

It’s a puzzle

September 13, 2016

The Minnesota Court of Appeals issued a decision yesterday in the case of Range Development Company of Chisholm v. Star Tribune. (It would be interesting to check sometime to see if the plaintiff here is a beneficiary of the IRRRB’s largess. I imagine it is.) It was of interest to me because it involves newspapers, the […]

by Steve Timmer

Where have you gone, Gov. Kasich?

March 18, 2016

The Strib ed. board turns its lonely eyes to you

by Steve Timmer

Not even remotely funny

August 22, 2015

This cartoon was in the Saturday morning Star Tribune, August 22, 2015. It’s by Scott Hilburn of the Universal Syndicate. It’s also textbook “humor punching down,” which is never really humor. If you liked it as much as I did, which is to say, not at all, you might ring up the Strib on Twitter: […]

by Steve Timmer