Skip To Main Content
Chuck Raasch on Muck Rack

Chuck Raasch

As seen in: MSN, MSN Canada, Post Outlook, The Washington Post, USA Today, Yahoo Canada, Sydney Morning Herald, U.S. News and World Report, The Minnesota Star Tribune, The Seattle Times and
Writer, author, father, husband. Retweets = noteworthy, newsy, not endorsement. Author of "Imperfect Union" & the upcoming "Life Painted Red"
Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work. Claim your profile

Get in touch with Chuck

Contact Chuck, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Is this you?

As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile

Chuck Raasch’s Biography

Read Full Bio →

Reporter, writer, author, editor. Washington correspondent for St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Currently writing book. Previously: Previously, national correspondent, USA TODAY. Previously: Senior correspondent and columnist for Gannett News Service. Knight Fellow at Stanford, 1989-1990. Have had bylines from 49 states and four continents. Covered and analyzed six presidential elections.. One of five original cover story writers for USA Today.

Specialties: Writing, editing, political analysis, demogr…

Articles

Winyan

|
By Chuck Raasch
| South Dakota Magazine Verified
Elizabeth Winyan (standing) was long associated with the Riggs family, caring for young Thomas in Minnesota and later joining him at Oahe Mission. On a spring day in 1830 a family, including a 3-year-old girl, was harvesting sweet syrup from maple trees along the banks of the Minnesota River near present-day Mankato. Suddenly and viciously, they were attacked by an unidentified rival tribe. The girl’s father was one of several Dakota Sioux killed in that attack.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Chuck Raasch: America could be a better country than we are

|
By Chuck Raasch
| Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Verified
Forty-eight years ago this month, Hubert Horatio Humphrey died. A former mayor of Minneapolis, senator from Minnesota, vice president and 1968 Democratic candidate for president, known as the “Happy Warrior,” he had been one of the major figures in American politics, with a vision for our nation we badly need now.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Minnesota’s ‘Happy Warrior’ Defined America. Would Anyone Listen Today?

|
By Chuck Raasch
| Times-Leader Verified
At the time I was a young reporter at the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, the largest newspaper in South Dakota, the state where Humphrey was born. In 1978, my editors sent me 152 miles northwest to his hometown of Doland, a typical Midwestern hamlet of 430 people to find out what its citizens would say about the man they still called “Pinky.” It was a bitterly cold day in the deep freeze of a Great Plains January. Pinky died during one of the coldest winters on record in the Upper Midwest.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 3,350 licensed articles (3,361 Total)