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Karlee Weinmann (karleeweinmann@gmail.com) is a freelance journalist who lives and works in Twin Cities.


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RNC 8 will be tried together

By Karlee Weinmann, TC Daily Planet

Fifteen months after their arrests, the eight activists accused of plotting to violently disrupt the 2008 Republican National Convention finally have an idea of how their pending trial will take shape. In line with the hopes of the RNC 8, it will be a single trial - not eight separate proceedings, as the state had initially planned.  MORE »

RNC 8 return to court

By Karlee Weinmann, TC Daily Planet

Thirteen months ago, the Republican National Convention came to town, carved an indelible scar on the Twin Cities and left. MORE »

Reflections from two of the RNC 8, one year later

By Karlee Weinmann, TC Daily Planet

A year ago, eight activists were detained in Ramsey County. Officials said they were protecting the public by holding the so-called RNC 8, who allegedly plotted to violently disrupt the Republican National Convention.MORE »

Ramsey County Attorney Susan Gaertner reflects, a year after the RNC

By Karlee Weinmann, TC Daily Planet

It’s been a year since the Republican National Convention descended on St. Paul, bringing with it hordes of protesters and police whose clashes erupted into several incidents still working their way through the courts.MORE »

Neighborhoods to select community engagement reps June 16

By Karlee Weinmann, Bridgeland News
After heated debate and significant changes, the contentious elections process for selecting neighborhood representatives for the city’s newly created Neighborhood and Community Engagement Commission (NCEC) seems to have settled into a workable compromise.
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RNC 8 protests Susan Gaertner

By Karlee Weinmann, Minnesota Daily
On Ramsey County Attorney Susan Gaertner’s birthday Tuesday evening, she held her first fundraiser for her 2010 gubernatorial bid.
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Longtime legislator, U professor Allan Spear dies

By Karlee Weinmann, Minnesota Daily
Allan Spear, a former University history professor and longtime state senator, died unexpectedly Saturday evening.

He was 71.

For nearly 30 years, until 2000, Spear legislated on behalf of the Minneapolis campus area.

When he announced that he was gay in a 1974 interview with the Minneapolis Star, Spear became the first openly gay state legislator in the country.MORE »

Report suggests SAT, ACT scores less important

By Karlee Weinmann, Minnesota Daily
The ACT and SAT entrance exams keep students stressing and guessing, wondering if they’ll get a score good enough to get into their college of choice.
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Activists: “We still live here”

By Karlee Weinmann, Minnesota Daily
For three nights last week, Mina Leierwood was a polar bear.

She, along with more than a dozen other individuals and groups, were players in a production at the Bedlam Theatre that encouraged proactive and creative reflection on the contentious and clash-heavy Republican National Convention.MORE »

Agents of change

By Karlee Weinmann, The Bridge
In the coming weeks, a special CD sampler will find its way to prominent mailboxes across the state and even to the nation’s most prestigious address at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, D.C.

That is, if the group of kids who spent their Wednesdays at the Brian Coyle Community Center this summer calling for change in their community get their way.MORE »

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