j. patrick coolican
@jpcoolican
Editor in chief, @MNReformer. Contact me if you wanna write for us. DMs open. Formerly @StarTribune, @LasVegasSun, @UMWallaceHouse. Go Irish.
Excellent early career data journalist you should hire folks.
Had a really exciting chance to cover a new area—the releases of toxic air chemicals by manufacturing companies in two regions of Minnesota, and how new MN legislation didn't include them. Thanks to @jpcoolican for this opportunity. Out now in @MNReformer: minnesotareformer.com/2025/07/24/two…
Sen. Nicole Mitchell found guilty of felony burglary minnesotareformer.com/2025/07/18/sen…
Verdict in the Mitchell case, @michellemgriff tells me.
KAIROS is an ancient Greek noun meaning when conditions are right for accomplishment. The LCS Class of 2025 chose Kairos as their class name, knowing that this is a crucial moment as they start out on their journey. We can't wait to see what they will achieve! #educationworks
lol @deenafaywinter been on the mpd OT beat for YEARS startribune.com/minneapolis-po…
We'll keep on this story, but this is a good start, including interviews with police and legislators, digging into some of the unanswered questions. A month after assassinations, questions linger about law enforcement response minnesotareformer.com/2025/07/11/a-m…
You people are reading this whole deal wrong: These lawyers put in serious hours for the people of Minnesota. minnesotareformer.com/2025/07/10/the…
CNN: According to four officials inside FEMA.. a new rule that any expected expenditure over $100,000 needed sign off from Noem slowed the federal response. The sources tell us that FEMA's deployment of urban search and rescue teams, which are typically deployed in…
Great tour through the prepper world by our talented intern Izzy Wagener. Are you prepared (for the end)? minnesotareformer.com/2025/07/09/are…
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In effect, the Supreme Court ruled that only it could decide issues on a national level. And then, with thousands and thousands of people waiting in limbo for resolution of many legally disputed Trump orders, the justices went on summer vacation, not to return until October.
Glints of joy among the horror. With @michellemgriff After violent deaths, children of Hortmans pray for peace at parents’ funeral minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/28/aft…
After 5 p.m. the line to view the caskets of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark still stretches down to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard.
Everyone should read this quote from Justice Sotomayor on today's SCOTUS ruling: “No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates. Today the threat is to birthright citizenship. Tomorrow a different administration may try to seize firearms from law-abiding citizens…
Holy Crap. Just straight up looting at this point. Or like was already looting. But just bringing in a semi to haul out the loot faster.
This is the line from the horrific SCOTUS decision today that will stick with me. “Sure, the president should follow the law - but the courts can’t force him to do it.” Rendering the Constitution a dead letter if the president decides he’d rather not deal with it.
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In DC speech, Sen. Elissa Slotkin calls for a ban on cellphones in every K-12 classroom in America.
Statement from the wife of Vance Boelter - accused assassin of Melissa and Mark Hortman.