Chris Snowbeck

A man in central Minnesota decided to walk this fall from Baxter to Bemidji in what looks like a human-sized hamster wheel.  Renee Richardson, managing editor of the Brainerd Dispatch, chronicled the journey.  “The wheel brings with it a monotony of measured steps,” Richardson…

Reporter John Myers listened closely when a researcher he knows mentioned something “you probably wouldn’t be interested in.”  The result is a feature story published this summer in the Duluth News Tribune that’s also the latest installment of Minnesota Sampler, a periodic MNSPJ feature that spotlights…