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38-405: The school first opened in 1975. A new facility opened around 1985. It was built as a bus barn and school for automobile mechanics, and it got the name "pole barn". This facility served as the high school, while K-8 classes were in a separate facility that, by November 2014, was in a better condition. Circa the 2000s the school community began advocating for a new school. In winter 2014, due to snow,

76-783: A school of journalism at the University of Minnesota . After a brief transitional period, Murphy's younger brother Frederick E. Murphy became the Tribune 's publisher in 1921. The other half of the newspaper's history begins with the Minnesota Daily Star , which was founded on August 19, 1920, by elements of the agrarian Nonpartisan League and backed by Thomas Van Lear and Herbert Gaston. The Daily Star had difficulty attracting advertisers with its overtly political agenda and went bankrupt in 1924. After its purchase by A. B. Frizzell and former New York Times executive John Thompson,

114-581: A Republican Chicago newspaper called the Inter Ocean as well as wrote a number of plays, novels, and sketches. In 1877, Pierce became managing editor of the Inter Ocean before assuming a similar position for the Chicago News . On June 25, 1884, Gilbert Pierce was appointed Governor of Dakota Territory by President Chester A. Arthur . Because of the corruption of his predecessor, Governor Pierce's appointment

152-676: A correspondent for newspapers in St. Paul, Minnesota . After North Dakota became a state in 1889, Pierce was elected to one term as United States Senator . In 1891, he purchased a half interest in the Minneapolis Tribune before selling it to become business manager of the Chicago Post and Times-Herald . In 1893, Pierce was appointed U.S. Minister to Portugal by President Benjamin Harrison ; but failing health forced Pierce to resign after only

190-684: A metro edition for the Minneapolis–St. Paul area and a state edition for areas beyond the metropolitan area. Although the newspaper competes with the St. Paul–based Pioneer Press in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area, the Star Tribune is more popular in the western metropolitan area, and the Pioneer Press is more popular in the eastern metro area. The newspapers share some printing and delivery operations. The Star Tribune went online in 1995, introducing

228-474: A new, $ 110 million printing plant, called the Heritage Center, in a historic warehouse district on the northern edge of downtown Minneapolis. Its five offset presses took over printing all Star Tribune editions. News and business offices remained in the downtown headquarters, whose old presses were removed. In 2014, the company announced that it would relocate from the 95-year-old headquarters building to

266-610: A section of the roof collapsed. By 2015 the editorial board of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune advocated for an urgent replacement of the school. The editorial board cited a sewer system that fails during periods of extreme cold and periods of rodents causing infestations. Jill Burcum, the writer of the editorials, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize due to these stories. In 2016 the United States Department of

304-645: Is Minnesota's largest newspaper and the seventh-largest in the United States by circulation, and is distributed throughout the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area, the state, and the Upper Midwest . It originated as the Minneapolis Tribune in 1867 and the competing Minneapolis Daily Star in 1920. During the 1930s and 1940s, the two papers consolidated, with the Tribune published in

342-634: The COVID-19 pandemic . It shuttered in October 2020, and the website was moved to the Hennepin County Library 's archives. After the 1987 formation of the Star Tribune , the newspaper was published in three editions: one for Minneapolis and the western suburbs, one for St. Paul and the eastern suburbs, and a state edition for Minnesota and the Midwest. The St. Paul edition was discontinued in 1999 in favor of

380-577: The Minneapolis Star and Tribune . Cowles Jr. fired publisher Donald R. Dwight . His handling of Dwight's termination led to his removal as editor in 1983, although his family retained a controlling financial interest in the newspaper. In 1983, the Star and Tribune challenged a Minnesota tax on paper and ink before the Supreme Court of the United States . In Minneapolis Star Tribune Co. v. Commissioner ,

418-607: The Star . Under him, it had the city's highest circulation, pressuring Minneapolis's other newspapers. In 1939, the Cowles family purchased the Minneapolis Evening Journal , merging the two newspapers into the Star-Journal . Tribune publisher Fred Murphy died in 1940; the next year, the Cowles family bought the Tribune and merged it with their company, giving it ownership of the city's major newspapers. The Tribune became

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456-597: The Star Tribune and its predecessor newspapers have won seven Pulitzer Prizes . The Star Tribune 's roots date to the creation of the Minneapolis Daily Tribune by Colonel William S. King , William D. Washburn , and Dorilus Morrison . The two men previously operated different Minneapolis newspapers, the State Atlas and the Minneapolis Daily Chronicle. The newspaper was designed to unify

494-542: The Star Tribune for several years. On December 26, 2006, McClatchy sold the paper to private equity firm Avista Capital Partners for $ 530 million, less than half of what it had paid for Cowles eight years earlier. In March 2007, Par Ridder was appointed Star Tribune publisher after his predecessor, J. Keith Moyer, left the newspaper after the sale. Ridder is a member of the Ridder family, which had owned Knight Ridder (publishers of several newspapers, including at that time

532-630: The University of Chicago ; where he studied writing, literature, and law. He enlisted in the ninth Indiana Volunteers as a second lieutenant in 1861. By 1864, Pierce was a colonel and an inspector general of the War Department. In 1868, he became a member of the Indiana House of Representatives. From 1868 to 1871, Pierce was a journal clerk of the United States Senate. After resigning, he edited

570-603: The Interior got a $ 12 million grant for a new school for Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig. The current $ 14,500,000 44,000-square-foot (4,100 m) facility opened in 2018. The high school building had about 100 students, and there were 200 students total for all of K-12, both in 2015. In addition to traditional subjects, Native culture is heavily integrated into the school's programs, while school district-operated public schools mostly follow dominant Euro-American curriculum with some Native cultural units. Eight Mile School District (Trenton, ND)

608-566: The Star Tribune to print regional copies of its daily edition at the Heritage plant. Printing plants owned by those newspaper companies in St. Paul and Maple Grove, Minn., shut down. 44°58′34″N 93°16′06″W  /  44.976063°N 93.268248°W  / 44.976063; -93.268248  ( D: Star Tribune, Minneapolis ) Gilbert A. Pierce Gilbert Ashville Pierce (January 11, 1839 – February 15, 1901)

646-495: The StarTribune.com website the following year. In 2011, the website erected a paywall . The Star Tribune has five main sections: main news, local news, sports, business, and variety (lifestyle and entertainment). Special weekly sections include Taste (restaurants and cooking), travel, Outdoors Weekend, and Science + Health. The Sunday edition has a more prominent editorial and opinion section, Opinion Exchange. Journalists with

684-489: The building and presses were a total loss. In 1891, the Tribune was purchased by Gilbert A. Pierce and William J. Murphy for $ 450,000 (equivalent to $ 13.8 million in 2023 ). Pierce quickly sold his share to Thomas Lowry , and Lowry sold it to Murphy, making Murphy the newspaper's sole owner. His business and legal background helped him structure the Tribune 's debt and modernize its printing equipment. The newspaper experimented with partial-color printing and

722-590: The city's morning newspaper, the Star-Journal (renamed the Star in 1947) was the evening newspaper, and they published a joint Sunday edition. A separate evening newspaper (the Times ) was spun off and published separately until 1948. In 1944, John Cowles Sr. hired Wisconsin native and former Tulsa Tribune editor William P. Steven as managing editor of the two newspapers; Steven became vice president and executive editor in 1954. During his tenure in Minneapolis, he

760-632: The company was acquired by Glen Taylor , owner of the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves and the WNBA's Minnesota Lynx . A former Republican state senator, Taylor said the Star Tribune would be less liberal under his ownership. He also said the paper had already begun a shift and would focus on accurately reporting both sides of all issues. In May 2015, the company acquired alternative weekly City Pages from Voice Media Group . City Pages continued publishing until it became another victim of advertising revenue loss and

798-705: The court found that the tax (which targeted specific newspapers) violated the First Amendment . In 1987, the newspaper's name was simplified to Star Tribune , and the slogan "Newspaper of the Twin Cities" was added. In 1998, the McClatchy Company purchased Cowles Media Company for $ 1.4 billion, ending the newspaper's 61-year history in the family in one of the largest sales in American newspaper history. Although McClatchy sold many of Cowles's smaller assets, it kept

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836-531: The former the Daily Star headquarters in downtown Minneapolis. The building was renovated from 1939 to 1940 and expanded in a larger renovation from 1946 to 1949. After 1949, the building housed the offices and presses of the Star and the Tribune. During the 1980s, an annex, the Freeman Building, was built across the street from the headquarters and connected with a skyway . In 1987, the Star Tribune opened

874-513: The legislature did agree to establish the School of Mines at Rapid City . Pierce vetoed a bill to grant equal suffrage to women. He was a proponent of statehood and quickly signed a bill into law to authorize a state constitutional convention for southern Dakota Territory. In August 1886, Governor Pierce resigned but remained in office until February 5, 1887. After leaving office, he served in Bismarck as

912-524: The local Republican Party under one newspaper. The Tribune 's first issue was published on May 25, 1867. The newspaper went through several different editors and publishers during its first two decades, including John T. Gilman, George K. Shaw, Albert Shaw , and Alden J. Blethen . In 1878, the Minneapolis Evening Journal began publication, giving the Tribune its first competition. On November 30, 1889, downtown Minneapolis's Tribune headquarters caught fire. Seven people were killed and 30 injured, and

950-558: The morning and the Star in the evening. They merged in 1982, creating the Minneapolis Star and Tribune , renamed the Star Tribune in 1987. After a tumultuous period in which the newspaper was sold and resold and filed for bankruptcy protection in 2009, it was purchased by local billionaire and former Minnesota State Senator Glen Taylor in 2014. In 2024, the paper was renamed The Minnesota Star Tribune . The Star Tribune typically contains national, international, and local news, sports, business, and lifestyle stories. Journalists from

988-541: The new publisher after Michael Klingensmith stepped down. Grove was the head of the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development under Minnesota Governor Tim Walz . He formerly worked as a reporter and a Google executive, leading the Google News Lab . Klingensmith had served as publisher since 2010. After the Cowles family consolidated the city's newspapers, their offices were gradually moved to

1026-571: The newly christened Star Tribune Building at the Capella Tower complex, making way for development around nearby U.S. Bank Stadium . Demolition of the buildings began in 2014; the last employees relocated in mid-2015, and the demolition was completed later that year. Also in 2014, the Star Tribune's Heritage printing plant began printing the St. Paul Pioneer Press under a contract with its cross-town rival. The following year, USA Today contracted with

1064-461: The newspaper became the politically independent Minneapolis Daily Star . In 1935, the Cowles family of Des Moines, Iowa purchased the Star . The family patriarch, Gardner Cowles Sr. , had purchased The Des Moines Register and the Des Moines Tribune during the first decade of the century and managed them successfully. Gardner's son, John Cowles Sr. , moved to Minneapolis to manage

1102-572: The post-bankruptcy company. Since 2010, the Star Tribune has given out awards to the "Top 150 Workplaces in Minnesota". Since the Star Tribune 's bankruptcy, its former ownership group, led by New York City–based Avista Capital Partners, has no stake in the company. Wayzata Investment Partners became majority owner of the Star Tribune Company in August 2012, with a 58% stake. In 2014,

1140-467: The pre-merger Minneapolis Star and Minneapolis Tribune won three Pulitzer Prizes : Star Tribune journalists have won three Pulitzers: In 2021, the staff of the Star Tribune won the Pulitzer prize for breaking news coverage for the "urgent, authoritative and nuanced" coverage of the murder of George Floyd . Columnists affiliated with the Star Tribune include: In April 2023, Steve Grove became

1178-441: The rival St. Paul Pioneer Press ). Ridder's arrival resulted in litigation when it was discovered that he had stolen a hard drive containing information about employees and advertisers, which the Pioneer Press called "trade secrets". Ridder also took two high-ranking staff members to the Minneapolis paper, which raised eyebrows since such employees usually have non-compete clauses in their contracts. On September 18, 2007, Ridder

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1216-475: The use of halftone for photographs and portraits. In 1893, Murphy sent the Tribune 's first correspondent to Washington, D.C. As Minneapolis grew, the newspaper's circulation expanded; the Tribune and the Evening Journal were closely competitive, with the smaller Minneapolis Times in third place. In 1905, Murphy bought out the Times and merged it with the Tribune . He died in 1918, endowing

1254-557: Was BIE/OIE-funded from 1987 to 2008 See also Template:Department of Defense Education Activity (U.S. military school system) 47°21′41″N 94°18′27″W  /  47.3613°N 94.3074°W  / 47.3613; -94.3074 Minneapolis Star-Tribune The Minnesota Star Tribune , formerly the Minneapolis Star Tribune , is an American daily newspaper based in Minneapolis , Minnesota . As of 2023, it

1292-548: Was an American author, journalist, playwright, and a member of the Indiana House of Representatives , the eighth Governor of Dakota Territory (serving from 1884 to 1887), and representative for North Dakota in the United States Senate . Pierce County, North Dakota was named in his honor. Gilbert Pierce was born at East Otto , Cattaraugus County, New York . He and his parents moved to Indiana . Pierce attended

1330-399: Was editor of the two newspapers; he became president in 1968 and editorial chairman the following year. He had a progressive political viewpoint, publishing editorials supporting the civil rights movement and liberal causes. In 1982, the afternoon Star was discontinued due to dwindling circulation, a trend common for afternoon newspapers. The two papers merged into a single morning paper,

1368-526: Was president of the Associated Press Managing Editors Association in 1949 and first chairman of the organization's Continuing Study Committee. By August 1960, John Cowles Jr. was vice president and associate editor of the two papers, and it was soon apparent that he disapproved of Steven's hard-nosed approach to journalism. When Steven chafed under the younger Cowles's management, he was fired. After Steven's ouster, Cowles Jr.

1406-594: Was removed from his post by a Ramsey County judge, and he resigned on December 7. On January 15, 2009, the paper, then the country's 15th-largest daily, filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 . On September 17, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York approved a bankruptcy plan for the Star Tribune , which emerged from bankruptcy protection on September 28. The paper's senior secured lenders received about 95% of

1444-416: Was treated with suspicion by residents of Dakota Territory. Because of bad feelings over the moving of the territorial capital, Pierce chose to be sworn in at the former capital city of Yankton on July 25, 1884, before assuming office at the new capital of Bismarck . With time, the new Governor gained respect in the territory. Governor Pierce vetoed a bill to move the capital from Bismarck to Pierre. He and

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