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Nick Woltman

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Mild-mannered reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press. News junkie. Generalist. Midwesterner. I’m also @PiPressArchives.bsky.social.

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Nick Woltman @nickwoltman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The most Minnesotan McDonald’s is on University Avenue in St. Paul.
A sign outside a McDonald’s restaurant that reads “Now ope 24 hours, Mon-Sat.”
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Star Tribune Guild @startribuneguild.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Editors, fact-checkers, designers and news assistants at the Minnesota Star Tribune are losing their jobs today. Anything you can donate to help our laid-off journalists is greatly appreciated. Can’t donate? Share this post to boost our efforts.
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Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The Strib Guild is raising money to help support our colleagues who have been laid off or are imminently about to be laid off, just weeks after the newsroom won a Pulitzer Prize. Please consider contributing if you are able. Thank you. workingpartnerships.betterworld.org/campaigns/st...
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PiPress Archives @pipressarchives.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
It was 18 years ago today that the I-35W bridge collapsed into the Mississippi River in Minneapolis during the evening rush hour, killing 13 people and injuring 145. Pioneer Press photographers took hundreds of images that day. You can see a few of them here: www.twincities.com/2025/07/23/t...
A collapsed bridge span lies in a river as emergency crews work nearby. First responders work to rescue people on a collapsed bridge deck. Onlookers view a collapsed bridge behind yellow police tape. Rescue workers use boats to search for people near a collapsed bridge lying in a river.
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PiPress Archives @pipressarchives.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
The St. Paul Daily News hired a private investigator to tap the phones and bug the offices of the city’s police department. The conversations he recorded uncovered evidence of rampant corruption in its ranks, leading to the ouster or suspension of more than a dozen officers — including the chief.
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How a St. Paul newspaper wiretapped the city’s police force 90 years ago
Conversations captured by a private investigator on the payroll of the St. Paul Daily News led to the ouster or suspension of more than a dozen police officers in 1935.
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PiPress Archives @pipressarchives.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Pioneer Press reporter Bill Martin interviews a seemingly talkative hippopotamus named Miss Oklahoma in the basement of St. Paul Auditorium in March 1952. To find out what she was doing there, visit our #ThrowbackThursday gallery at twincities.com/throwback. 📸: Pioneer Press file photo
A man with a notebook and a pen crouches down next to a hippopotamus, whose mouth is slightly open.
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PiPress Archives @pipressarchives.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
“Jaws” premiered 50 years ago today at a pair of local movie theaters that had won a bidding war to screen the original summer blockbuster.
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‘Jaws’ sank its teeth into Twin Cities moviegoers 50 years ago
Local moviegoers mobbed the two metro theaters that had won exclusive rights to screen that summer’s hottest blockbuster: the Gopher Theater in Minneapolis and — somehow — the tin…
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PiPress Archives @pipressarchives.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
A case that began with a complaint about a broken furnace ended with the largest jury award for a race-based housing discrimination claim in U.S. history because 27-year-old Melissa Hortman saw “that there were these larger issues. Not every lawyer would pick up on that,” a former colleague said.
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Hortman began legal career with win in landmark housing discrimination case
As a young attorney working for a legal aid organization, Hortman took up the housing discrimination case of a Minneapolis woman.
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PiPress Archives @pipressarchives.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Members of the St. Paul Athletic Club, including former mayor Mark Gehan on the left, dutifully don gym shorts as they exercise on the club’s rooftop deck on July 16, 1941. To view our previous #ThrowbackThursday images, visit twincities.com/throwback 📸: Former PiPress photographer Jack Loveland
Four men in gym shorts and sandals exercise with medicine balls on the roof of a building. A sign next to them reads, “To protect our sun deck privileges, we must not offend our neighbors in the surrounding tall buildings. Therefore all sun bathers must wear gym pants. No one is permitted on the sun deck in the nude.”
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PiPress Archives @pipressarchives.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
“Of plot there is very little, save for some hectic love affairs that are not above reproach, the author’s aim and interest all being centered on Gatsby himself,” wrote the books editor of the St. Paul Daily News. “Personally I don’t think the fellow was worth so much effort.”
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100 years ago, ‘Gatsby’ got mixed reviews in Fitzgerald’s hometown papers
The book’s lukewarm reception in the local press may not be surprising given its author’s complicated relationship with St. Paul, one historian said.
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PiPress Archives @pipressarchives.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The paddleboat Capitol makes its way down the Mississippi River from St. Paul on July 1, 1932. The 280-foot excursion steamer was a frequent visitor to the city during the summer navigation season. To view all of our #ThrowbackThursday photos, visit twincities.com/throwback. 📸: Pioneer Press files
A paddleboat steams down a river with the St. Paul skyline in the background.
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PiPress Archives @pipressarchives.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
“There was a lot of bad science happening at that time, and it was used to justify some pretty horrible behavior,” the grandson of one of the women said.
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2,350 Minnesotans were sterilized under state’s 1925 eugenics law — most of them women
Spurred on by proponents of the pseudoscientific eugenics movement, Minnesota was one of 32 states to enact such a law during the first half of the 20th century.
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PiPress Archives @pipressarchives.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Moving day at the Science Museum of Minnesota brought skeletons out of the closets in 1964. The museum was moving from the John L. Merriam mansion in St. Paul to new digs at the Arts and Sciences Center. See more #throwbackthursday images: twincities.com/throwback 📸: Former PiPresser Don Church
A woman carries a skeleton out of a building with a sign above the door that reads “The Science Museum,” while a man beside her carries taxidermy animals.
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PiPress Archives @pipressarchives.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
In March 1950, a gang of Dayton’s Bluff middle schoolers led police to the cave hideout of a convicted killer after recognizing his mugshot in the St. Paul Dispatch.
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One of the FBI’s original 10 Most Wanted Fugitives was caught in St. Paul — by a bunch of kids
A gang of local boys led police to the cave hideout of a wanted killer after recognizing his photo in the newspaper.
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PiPress Archives @pipressarchives.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
“That’s a no-no,” St. Paul cop Frank Langan tells this St. Patrick’s Day reveler as he tries to conceal his beer can outside Gallivan’s bar in downtown on March 17, 1976. To see a gallery of all our #ThrowbackThursday photos, go to twincities.com/throwback 📸: Pioneer Press photographer Bill Davis
A police officer gives a stern look to a man dressed in St. Patrick’s Day regalia who is carrying a beer on the sidewalk.
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PiPress Archives @pipressarchives.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Coming Sunday! A local history newsletter from the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Sign up here to have it delivered to your inbox every week: twincities.com/newsletters
The words "From the Archives" in a gothic script against a background of newspaper front pages.
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