I'm a registered dietitian and freelance journalist. Raised in rural Minnesota but living in St. Paul, I write about food systems, housing, public health, and how Twin Cities neighborhoods actually work — usually from the inside. This is where you can catch up on my published work and occasionally find things that don't fit elsewhere. Follow along, share what resonates, or support my work directly (if that's something you're into.)
Michigan-based RHP Properties Management even moved to evict a North Star Estates resident for a $415 water bill.
Read this piece →Last November, Duluth voters did something their city council wouldn’t. By nearly a 70-30 margin, they passed a renter right-to-repair ordinance — the first of its kind in Minnesota. This year, St. Paul should follow.
Interview with journalist Cole Hanson, who reveals how residents at a Little Canada manufactured home park are fighting water bills that tripled overnight due to unpermitted meter installations.
Cole's TikTok with MN Reformer on his story in Little Canada
To understand why the demolition of an abandoned CVS mattered, you have to go back to the beginning of the entire mess.
My essay on Zion Community Commons and the lessons of mutual aid.
When our safety depends on it, we have the right — and the responsibility — to defend our communities together, even if that looks like celebrating National Night Out while in a parka.
The overlap is usually where the story is.
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