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Katie Lentsch

Katie Lentsch

Katie Lentsch is a MintPress editorial assistant and community manager. Her work has appeared in the Twin Cities Daily Planet & MintPress. Her desire to expose awareness of national and global issues began while backpacking through western Europe where she gained international perspectives on politics and culture, as well as from her experiences residing in an abandoned school in volunteering for Hurricane Katrina relief in New Orleans. Her reports include coverage on the social and legislative debates between Second Amendment rights and gun control, and has profiled various stories of people facing struggles such as homelessness, addiction and violations of their human rights.

Campaign Finance Disclosure: The Laws States Need To Shine Light On Dark Money In Politics

“There’s a whole list of groups or individuals that provide dark money. People or corporations … the public ought to know who is spending money to influence our votes,” a representative for a group lobbying for honest, open government tells MintPress.

January 15th, 2015

By Katie Lentsch @KtLentsch

Campaign Finance Disclosure: The Laws States Need To Shine Light On Dark Money In Politics

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks at the Republican Jewish Coalition, Saturday, March 29, 2014, in Las Vegas. Several possible GOP presidential candidates gathered in Las Vegas as Sheldon Adelson, a billionaire casino magnate, looks for a new favorite to help on the 2016 race for the White

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Katie Lentsch

Katie Lentsch

Katie Lentsch is a MintPress editorial assistant and community manager. Her work has appeared in the Twin Cities Daily Planet & MintPress. Her desire to expose awareness of national and global issues began while backpacking through western Europe where she gained international perspectives on politics and culture, as well as from her experiences residing in an abandoned school in volunteering for Hurricane Katrina relief in New Orleans. Her reports include coverage on the social and legislative debates between Second Amendment rights and gun control, and has profiled various stories of people facing struggles such as homelessness, addiction and violations of their human rights.

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Housing First: A Different Approach To End Homelessness

The key to effectively reducing homelessness may be just that: a key.

April 24th, 2014

By Katie Lentsch @KtLentsch

Housing First: A Different Approach To End Homelessness

A key difference between maintaining homelessness and ending it in Washington state’s King County is a plan to offer the homeless keys to their own homes and access to support services. “The American people have grown accustomed to modern-day homelessness,” said Michael Stoops, director of community organization for the National Coalition for

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Katie Lentsch

Katie Lentsch

Katie Lentsch is a MintPress editorial assistant and community manager. Her work has appeared in the Twin Cities Daily Planet & MintPress. Her desire to expose awareness of national and global issues began while backpacking through western Europe where she gained international perspectives on politics and culture, as well as from her experiences residing in an abandoned school in volunteering for Hurricane Katrina relief in New Orleans. Her reports include coverage on the social and legislative debates between Second Amendment rights and gun control, and has profiled various stories of people facing struggles such as homelessness, addiction and violations of their human rights.

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Environmentalist Kicked Out Of Chevron-Sponsored Event

After organizers of a Chevron-sponsored economic development summit learned of a paying attendee’s association with an environmental watchdog, he was forcibly ejected from the event.

April 18th, 2014

By Katie Lentsch @KtLentsch

Environmentalist Kicked Out Of Chevron-Sponsored Event

On Wednesday, Paul Paz y Miño was standing at the back of the ballroom of the Marriott Convention Center during the Economic Development Summit for Energy and Sustainability in Oakland, Calif., when he was approached by a woman. The woman asked Paz y Miño, the online and operations director for the environmental watchdog organization

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Katie Lentsch

Katie Lentsch

Katie Lentsch is a MintPress editorial assistant and community manager. Her work has appeared in the Twin Cities Daily Planet & MintPress. Her desire to expose awareness of national and global issues began while backpacking through western Europe where she gained international perspectives on politics and culture, as well as from her experiences residing in an abandoned school in volunteering for Hurricane Katrina relief in New Orleans. Her reports include coverage on the social and legislative debates between Second Amendment rights and gun control, and has profiled various stories of people facing struggles such as homelessness, addiction and violations of their human rights.

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Silent Howls: The Euthanization Of Shelter Dogs

Euthanasia is an unfortunate reality for shelter dogs that don’t get adopted, but spaying and neutering could go a long way in changing this.

April 16th, 2014

By Katie Lentsch @KtLentsch

For many animal lovers, a pet is a member of the family. The most beloved house pet for one-third of American families is man’s furry, four-legged friend: the

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Katie Lentsch

Katie Lentsch

Katie Lentsch is a MintPress editorial assistant and community manager. Her work has appeared in the Twin Cities Daily Planet & MintPress. Her desire to expose awareness of national and global issues began while backpacking through western Europe where she gained international perspectives on politics and culture, as well as from her experiences residing in an abandoned school in volunteering for Hurricane Katrina relief in New Orleans. Her reports include coverage on the social and legislative debates between Second Amendment rights and gun control, and has profiled various stories of people facing struggles such as homelessness, addiction and violations of their human rights.

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Endangered Wild Cats Harmfully Bred In Zoos For Profit, Not Protection

Inbreeding practices of rare white tigers and white lions have led to birth defects and abnormalities, but is their popularity in zoos more important than their conservation?

April 09th, 2014

By Katie Lentsch @KtLentsch

Endangered Wild Cats Harmfully Bred In Zoos For Profit, Not Protection

Although the wild cats on display in zoos seem to be the kings and queens of their exhibits, the reality of their lives in captivity is far from royal.

Illegal poaching, trophy hunting, retaliative persecution and habitat loss subjects wildlife species to

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Katie Lentsch

Katie Lentsch

Katie Lentsch is a MintPress editorial assistant and community manager. Her work has appeared in the Twin Cities Daily Planet & MintPress. Her desire to expose awareness of national and global issues began while backpacking through western Europe where she gained international perspectives on politics and culture, as well as from her experiences residing in an abandoned school in volunteering for Hurricane Katrina relief in New Orleans. Her reports include coverage on the social and legislative debates between Second Amendment rights and gun control, and has profiled various stories of people facing struggles such as homelessness, addiction and violations of their human rights.

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Illegal Trash Becomes Shelter For Calif. Homeless

An Oakland, Calif., artist uses trash illegally dumped on the city’s streets to make mini mobile homes for the city’s homeless, effectively addressing two problems at once.

April 08th, 2014

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Illegal Trash Becomes Shelter For Calif. Homeless

The old proverb says that one person’s trash is another person’s treasure, but in one city in the San Francisco Bay Area, many people’s illegal trash has become over a dozen mini shelters for the homeless.

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Katie Lentsch

Katie Lentsch

Katie Lentsch is a MintPress editorial assistant and community manager. Her work has appeared in the Twin Cities Daily Planet & MintPress. Her desire to expose awareness of national and global issues began while backpacking through western Europe where she gained international perspectives on politics and culture, as well as from her experiences residing in an abandoned school in volunteering for Hurricane Katrina relief in New Orleans. Her reports include coverage on the social and legislative debates between Second Amendment rights and gun control, and has profiled various stories of people facing struggles such as homelessness, addiction and violations of their human rights.

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The Myth Of The Casino Cash Cow For Native Americans

Contrary to stereotypes about reservation gambling profits, most Native Americans are struggling.

October 23rd, 2013

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The Myth Of The Casino Cash Cow For Native Americans

Today’s casinos of flashing lights and slot machines in smoke-filled rooms attract high rollers and bad losers. Many see casinos as a lucrative business for Native American reservations -- but does this myth of money-making match reality?

Twenty-five percent of the U.S. population aged 21 and over visited a casino and

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Katie Lentsch

Katie Lentsch

Katie Lentsch is a MintPress editorial assistant and community manager. Her work has appeared in the Twin Cities Daily Planet & MintPress. Her desire to expose awareness of national and global issues began while backpacking through western Europe where she gained international perspectives on politics and culture, as well as from her experiences residing in an abandoned school in volunteering for Hurricane Katrina relief in New Orleans. Her reports include coverage on the social and legislative debates between Second Amendment rights and gun control, and has profiled various stories of people facing struggles such as homelessness, addiction and violations of their human rights.

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