by Nick Coleman | Sep 29, 2012 | Environment |
The buzz is gone. If this were a horror film, it’d be “The Silence of the Bees.” But it’s not a movie. It’s for real. The bee-loud glade, as the poet once called it, is quiet. Except at the Bee Lab at the Entomology Department on the St....
by Nick Coleman | May 1, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Gov. Elmer Andersen summoned me to his Arden Hills home in early 2003 because he wanted me to help him get the word out: He had certainly NOT given his endorsement to Tim Pawlenty, the newly-elected governor who, despite claiming to be a Republican like Elmer, represented the kind of narrow partisanship that Elmer loathed.
by Nick Coleman | Sep 29, 2011 | Environment |
“I hoped in the 1990s that the world would catch on. But we went the opposite direction, a short-term mentality took over and the environment has been politically sidelined. So I try to tell people it’s not just about saving the polar bears. It’s about saving our kids.”–Will Steger
by Nick Coleman | Jan 13, 2002 | Uncategorized |
I wrote the following two stories in January, 2002…the first telling the heartbreaking tale of a humble St Paul parking lot attendant who, in a span of months, had lost two sons — one in the 9-11 attacks on the World Trade Center, the other in a tragic car...
by Nick Coleman | Sep 11, 2001 | Uncategorized |
Ireland ‘s Dingle Peninsula is the western-most point of Europe, a rocky finger of land that juts into the Atlantic at the wild, remote edge of the world. I have dreamed of Dingle for most of my life. When my grandmother was young, people looked out at the sea...
