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Monthly Archives: May 2013

Thank You JEA!

May 18, 2013by TinkerTour Leave a comment

Mary Beth and Mike thank the Journalism Education Association for their generous donation of $2500 to the Tinker Tour. We are delighted to add them to our list of em-powering tour sponsors.

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Life in Bizarro World: Veronica Mars v. Mary Beth Tinker

May 17, 2013by Mike Hiestand 1 Comment

Not to take anything away from Veronica Mars (indeed, more power to her!), but if a “make believe” Veronica Mars can raise $2 million in 12 hours (and close to $6 […]

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Thank You ASNE Youth Journalism Initiative!

May 15, 2013by TinkerTour Leave a comment

Mary Beth and Mike thank the American Society of News Editors Youth Journalism Initiative for their generous donation of $500 to the Tinker Tour. We are delighted to add them to our list […]

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TGIF from Mike!

May 10, 2013by Mike Hiestand Leave a comment

So it took a while, but my dear wife finally got around to sending out a post to her Facebook friends about our tour….

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Thank you AEJMC!

May 10, 2013by TinkerTour Leave a comment

Mary Beth and Mike thank the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication for their generous donation of $1,000 to the Tinker Tour. We are delighted to add them […]

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Tinker Tour headed to the U.S. Supreme Court!

May 8, 2013by TinkerTour 2 Comments

[5/9/13: Note: This story has been corrected to note that the details of Mary Beth’s participation at this event are still being worked out.  The evening, which begins at 6 p.m., […]

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Jim Lehrer, Here’s my number. Call me, maybe?

May 3, 2013by TinkerTour Leave a comment

Dear Mr. Lehrer, We need a bus for two. I understand you may have one of your own. I hate to be so up-front, but we’ve been invited to the […]

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Send the Tinker Tour some Love through Instagram

May 2, 2013by TinkerTour Leave a comment

Help spread the word about the Tinker Tour through our new Instagram photo campaign — and let everyone know you support student voices and a strong First Amendment. Just snap […]

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May Day! May Day! Attention Student Media!

May 1, 2013by TinkerTour Leave a comment

Happy May Day. 🙂 So it’s May 1 and our StartSomeGood campaign to fund our national free speech and civics education bus tour ends May 31. We’ve had a strong […]

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