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Eric Roper

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Minnesota Star Tribune columnist. Hobbyist woodworker on Instagram: https://t.co/R7lRvWtJCP

Minneapolis, MN
Joined October 2009
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RT @ApplePodcasts: When reporter @StribRoper looks into the previous owners of his Minneapolis house, he uncovers an incredible history tyi….
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RT @RacketMN: Did you know the @StarTribune recently launched its very first episodic, narratively driven podcast series, "Ghost of a Chanc….
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It's a special bonus episode about another podcast!
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I have been working for five years on a project that began as a mystery about my home, but ultimately revealed an important history of race in Minneapolis. Our podcast, "Ghost of a Chance," will begin publishing Monday. Here is my first-person essay:
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The Minnesota Star Tribune’s first narrative podcast, “Ghost of a Chance,” explores the Black experience in the city.
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RT @TaneDanger: For almost five years, my husband @StribRoper has been researching the Robinson’s, a Black couple who owned our home in SW….
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RT @TaneDanger: The wedding arch-turned garden gate @StribRoper and I built for our big day is featured in this month’s @Family_Handyman! T….
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RT @StarTribune: He fought this newspaper — and won. Dan Cohen, mainstay of Minneapolis politics for decades, dies at 87. .
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The former City Council president took the Star Tribune to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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1 year
I enjoyed digging through our archives to chronicle Dan Cohen's long and very interesting career in Minneapolis politics. Cohen famously took the Star Tribune to the U.S. Supreme Court -- and won. He died in early April.
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RT @tptAlmanac: Curious Minnesota, a reader-driven reporting project, has received more than 3,000 reader questions since launching in 2019….
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1 year
RT @TaneDanger: Proof: @StribRoper and me on @tptAlmanac on the same night. There should be a term for couples pulling this off. 🤔.
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RT @grove: Launched today: our new @StarTribune "Curious Minnesota" collection that tracks every question we've answered in 5 years in this….
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1 year
RT @bbierschbach: This is very cool.
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1 year
RT @gretakaul: Get curiouser and curiouser about Minnesota with this searchable landing page of all the Curiouses.
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RT @StarTribune: Introducing the Curious Minnesota Collection. Every question we've answered — now in one place
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Our new searchable database is home to more than 260 stories about Minnesota history and culture, all inspired by reader questions.
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1 year
I'm very excited about a new searchable database we are launching today for the fifth anniversary of Curious Minnesota. The Curious Minnesota Collection features more than 260 stories about Minnesota history and culture, all based on reader questions.
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Our new searchable database is home to more than 260 stories about Minnesota history and culture, all inspired by reader questions.
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2 years
RT @StarTribune: Is it true that a Minnesotan will "give you directions to anywhere but their home?" A reader who contacted Curious Minneso….
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RT @StarTribune: Was there a "riot" of teenagers in downtown Minneapolis after the Beatles' only Minnesota show? #CuriousMinnesota has the….
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RT @StarTribune: The Curious Minnesota podcast heads north to the mighty Mesabi, which helped fuel America's success story. .
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The Curious Minnesota podcast heads north to the mighty Mesabi, which helped fuel America's success story.
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RT @StarTribune: Somewhere beneath southern Minnesota lie the remnants of about 40,000 board games once created and sold as an anti-establi….
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RT @n_yang: If you love Betty White, the "Golden Girls" or Minnesota or all three, today's #CuriousMinnesota is for you. .
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