I used to like to argue. @StarTribune reporter, freelance writer @Salon @RealSimple @brainchildmag @AlterNet @riverteeth @brevitymag #binders
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Yes to both, and you edited my 2011 viral essay “Regrets of a Stay-at-Home Mom.” Thank you! salon.com/writer/katy_read
An experiment: Please RT this pic if you wrote anything for @Salon during its 31 years and/or wrote for me during my time there (2007-2015)
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Feel like I’m starting to learn more than I want to about the chemicals sloshing around in my brain. But this makes some interesting points.
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After several frustrating days of phone calls to = corporate, @VerizonSupport's X team to the rescue! I now have the loyalty discount, plus credit for potential savings during the past 6 mos if I'd known the discount was available. Thank you for making it right, Kaye &
VS!
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After several frustrating days of phone calls, @VerizonSupport's X team came through! I received the loyalty discount going forward, plus a credit for what I would have saved during the past six months if I'd known the discount was available. Thank you, Kaye & @VerizonSupport!
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.@Verizonsupport on 1/3, Verizon support person said I was eligible for a loyalty discount, would get 6 months refunded. Sent text confirming. Refund never arrived. Today's support says last week's person was "lying" to me. Lying? Really?? That's how your support team works??
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.@VerizonSupport can you tell me what the agent's motivation would be to "lie" to a customer about a discount and/or refund that doesn't exist? I also got a text. Should I spread the word not to trust what Verizon customer support says on the phone because they might be "lying"?
.@VerizonSupport please tell me how to connect with an agent. I've sat on hold forever, can't schedule a callback, can't get automated assistant to understand the problem. YOU ARE OVERCHARGING ME BY $200
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Excelsior’s Planning Commission will discuss a proposed apartment building on a key corner of Water Street.
Building height fight brews in this historic downtown startribune.com/excelsior-mi…
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Back in the day, even celebrities like W.E.B. Du Bois and Duke Ellington couldn't stay in Minneapolis hotels. Fascinating journey, writing this look back at the history of the @WheatleyCenter startribune.com/100-years-la…
Exactly. Thank you from this local journalist whose paper also didn’t endorse.
Canceling a newspaper subscription helps politicians who don’t want oversight, does nothing to hurt the billionaires who own the newspapers and make decisions with which you may disagree, and will result in fewer journalists trying to hold the powerful to account.
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Thank you, @macphailmusic, for providing this fascinating information about the uses and efficacy of music therapy. startribune.com/mcphail-ther…
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A remarkable story about an addiction recovery leader experiencing a "run in" with opioids. @hazldnbettyford startribune.com/he-was-the-f…
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Do you think you'll die some day? Really, really believe it, deep down? (no paywall) strib.gift/tpnmxtkbx
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.@cnfonline, could you please offer "Brain, Child" writers temporary access to our work so we can make pdfs etc. so the links on our websites, etc., will work?
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Saw both events, didn't realize they'd happened the same day. Great column about two jaw-dropping incidents, @stribrooks
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And then this! Scarlett Johansson's joke was more accurate than I first realized when I watched the cold open.
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Want to help others while sipping your latte? Here are nine Minnesota coffee shops where your money goes toward a good cause.
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I'd love to have been this confident and determined at 14 -- and other ages! (No paywall.) @CourageKennyAH
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