“She’s smart as a whip. She could look three, four days into the future and know exactly how things were going to come out and get everybody ready for what was going to happen.”
— University of Minnesota CFO Richard Pfutzenreuter on the U’s chief lobbyist, Donna Peterson, who’s retiring next month after 20 years on the job.
Alex Friedrich reports on higher education issues for MPR News. Among the stories he has covered: the fall of the Berlin Wall, aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, 2003 Moscow suicide bombing and 2004 presidential elections in the Republic of Georgia. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Georgia and a master’s in European political economy from the London School of Economics.
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