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Matt DeLong

Audience editor

Matt DeLong is an editor on the Minnesota Star Tribune's audience team. He writes Nuggets, a free, weekly email newsletter about legal cannabis in Minnesota. DeLong also oversees the Minnesota Poll and has written numerous reader-focused guides and FAQ articles on a wide range of topics.

Prior to joining the Star Tribune in late 2014, DeLong was a digital editor on the national desk at the Washington Post, where he was part of the team awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for coverage of the National Security Agency’s secret surveillance programs. A native of upstate New York, DeLong currently lives in Minneapolis.

He can be reached on the encrypted messaging app Signal at 612-643-0344.

Latest from Matt DeLong

Twin Cities

Where to park during a snow emergency in the Twin Cities

What you need to know about parking rules when a snow emergency is declared in Minneapolis or St. Paul.
December 19, 2024
City of Minneapolis plow clears snow from a Olson Highway Service Road in Minneapolis.
Cannabis

Minnesota abandons early cannabis lottery, retail pot sales likely to start later than expected

“This was certainly not an outcome that we were hoping would materialize, and we know that today’s path forward does not provide a perfect solution,” interim OCM director Charlene Briner said Wednesday.
December 11, 2024
Cannabis

Wave of rejections for aspiring Minnesota cannabis entrepreneurs

With a lottery looming, a local pot attorney says litigation is “the only course left” for some clients who were turned away from a shot at Minnesota’s social equity program.
November 20, 2024
In this Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018, photo, a clerk reaches for a container of marijuana buds for a customer at Utopia Gardens, a medical marijuana dispensary, in Detroit. Michigan and North Dakota, where voters previously authorized medical marijuana, will decide now if the drug should be legal for any adult 21 and older. They would become the 10th and 11th states to legalize so-called recreational marijuana since 2012. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Vikings

Vikings bar finder: Where to watch games across U.S.

With nearly 100 verified Vikings bars scattered across 28 states, connecting with fellow fans may be easier than you think.
October 16, 2024
Cannabis

While Minnesota lawmaker worked to pass cannabis law, her partner started a cannabis business

DFL Rep. Jessica Hanson said legislators employed in other industries can sponsor and vote on bills related to their professions. A government ethics expert called it a conflict of interest.
August 23, 2024
Cannabis

Readers asked us what Leech Lake Band’s cannabis store was selling. Here’s what we found out.

The Sweetest Grass dispensary says some of its premium marijuana strains are actually hemp purchased from out-of-state companies. Our testing found otherwise.
July 21, 2024
Cannabis

Minnesota tribe opens cannabis dispensary near Treasure Island Casino

Prairie Island Indian Community’s Island Peži in Red Wing is the closest tribally owned retail marijuana store to the Twin Cities so far.
June 26, 2024
Elections

Minnesota Poll results: The war in Gaza

Full results for each question, methodology and a demographic breakdown of the respondents for the latest Star Tribune/MPR News/KARE 11 Minnesota Poll.
June 12, 2024
Cannabis

While Minnesota lawmaker worked to pass cannabis law, her partner started a cannabis business

DFL Rep. Jessica Hanson said legislators employed in other industries can sponsor and vote on bills related to their professions. A government ethics expert called it a conflict of interest.
August 23, 2024
Cannabis

Readers asked us what Leech Lake Band’s cannabis store was selling. Here’s what we found out.

The Sweetest Grass dispensary says some of its premium marijuana strains are actually hemp purchased from out-of-state companies. Our testing found otherwise.
July 21, 2024
Cannabis

Minnesota tribe opens cannabis dispensary near Treasure Island Casino

Prairie Island Indian Community’s Island Peži in Red Wing is the closest tribally owned retail marijuana store to the Twin Cities so far.
June 26, 2024
Elections

Minnesota Poll results: The war in Gaza

Full results for each question, methodology and a demographic breakdown of the respondents for the latest Star Tribune/MPR News/KARE 11 Minnesota Poll.
June 12, 2024
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