Harvey Mackay s 90-year run of sharing opinions is legendary, and he s even right sometimes. His observations on P.J. Fleck and the Gophers could be spot-on.
Born in the 1970s, the group that battled against building the Metrodome eventually moved on and became a rowdy band of baseball brothers and sisters who have traveled near and far to fulfill their love of the game.
Gillespie has been editorial page editor since 2007. He was the lead editor on "Separate and Unequal," the series of editorials on underfunded Bureau of Indian Education schools that was a finalist for a 2015 Pulitzer Prize. Before joining Editorial, Gillespie was managing editor at the Star Tribune, responsible for the day-to-day operations of the newsroom. During his five-year tenure in that role, the news staff produced awarding-winning coverage on the death of Paul Wellstone, the war in Iraq and the collapse of the I-35W Bridge. Before being named managing editor, Gillespie served as the paper s assistant managing editor for local news and assistant managing editor for business news. He has more than 30 years of news reporting and editing experience at newspapers in Wisconsin and Minnesota. He served as a Pulitzer Prize juror in 2004, 2005, 2011 and 2012. Gillespie has a bachelor s degree in journalism and political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has