Congratulations on your coverage of the tragic bridge collapse. Getting individual stories from local media was insightful. However, you missed one of the public’s most important media sources for information on that day. Jazz 88, KBEM, broke this story at 6:10 that night…just a few minutes after the bridge fell and provided vital traffic reports … Read more
Cheers to The Rake for recognizing that bicycling (and walking) is indeed taking off in the Twin Cities; one need only look to the streets to see how many people are using their own two feet (and increasingly creative wheels!) to reach their destinations. As you mentioned in your June 2007 issue [“Twin Cities on … Read more
We love it when readers take us along on trips to the world’s loveliest places. (We also get a kick out of the occasional dispatch from seedier destinations.) Siri and Bent Iversen of Northeast Minneapolis recently toted The Rake to one of Norway’s great geological wonders. While visiting Bent’s homeland of Vågsøy, an island off … Read more
Dear Rake, The author of your July fiction piece—which I edited—was actually Dan Hendrickson, and not Don Hendrickson as was printed. I’m sure you regret this embarrassing error as much as I do. I’m also sure that you, like I, would very much like to apologize to Dan Hendrickson, his friends and family, and everyone … Read more
Tom Bartel’s editorial [“To the Barricades,” July 2007] based on Michael Moore’s film Sicko, was misleading in many ways. The sub-headline mentions health care but the article focuses on health insurance. There is hardly a subtle difference between the two. Few would disagree that the U.S. offers the world’s finest health care, and what’s more … Read more
Reading the Rake in front of the Haitian National Presidential Palace. Author(s) and Location: Marcia Erickson and Jen Halverson
Mark Wange of Richfield mailed this photo taken during a recent trip to Zambia, where he traveled with his daughter, Ginger. Wisely, Wange brought along an issue of The Rake to help pass those lazy afternoons. Could it be that the text was so captivating he didn’t even notice when an elephant passed by? We … Read more
Where should the civil engineering community send the honorary pocket protector for Michael Nordskog? [“Moving Water and Earth,” June] His description of the St. Anthony Falls Lab’s global importance and local invisibility brought back memories of my university days. Youngsters start playing with slush dams in the winter streets and gravy reservoirs in their mashed … Read more
Proud as we are to have Medina resident Greg LeMond amongst us, he is just that—a non-native resident, born in California. [“Twin Cities on Two Wheels,” June] Apparently he moved here to pursue Nordic skiing to train in the off-season after being accidentally shot while turkey hunting. Keep up the good work. Karl Herber, Minneapolis … Read more
Brian Lambert [“Local News, Global Profits,” June] thinks covering and reporting local news is “easy to do—any writer can read the minutes of a planning commission meeting, or watch a ball game and file a story about it.” Apparently he has never covered local news. Or covered it conscientiously. I won’t bother pointing out how … Read more