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Rob Hotakainen
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E-mail Rob Hotakainen at rhotakainen@mcclatchydc.com
Rob Hotakainen covers trade, international development and American Indian issues for McClatchy Newspapers, based in Washington, D.C.
He joined the McClatchy Washington Bureau as a correspondent for the Minneapolis Star Tribune in 1999 and became the Minneapolis team leader in 2000, a position he held until 2007. A native of Minnesota, Rob worked as a reporter for the Star Tribune in Minneapolis for 12 years before moving to Washington. And he was a Washington correspondent for the Kansas City Star, the Sacramento Bee and McClatchy's Washington state newspapers from 2007 to 2012.
Hotakainen was named Washington’s top regional reporter in 2010 by the Washington Press Club Foundation, winning the David Lynch Regional Reporting Award.
Rob Hotakainen's Latest Story
Indian country torn over gay marriage
By Rob Hotakainen | McClatchy Washington Bureau
For Heather Purser, the first pang came more than a decade ago as she gathered clams on Puget Sound’s Chico Beach, watching her cousin’s new husband assist with the digging. She figured she’d never have a legal spouse to help with the backbreaking work. Then Purser, a member of Washington state’s Suquamish Tribe who knew she was gay at age 7, decided to act: She led a personal lobbying campaign that ended with her tribal council voting in 2011 to approve same-sex marriage. » read more
Posted on Thu, May 9, 2013
Rob Hotakainen's Recent Stories
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· Climate emerges as hot issue in Columbia River Treaty talks with Canada
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· Frustrated Sen. Murkowski takes heat as Alaska tribes get left out of new domestic violence law
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· Eric Holder gets an earful on marijuana, promises quick decision
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· Tribes win new power to prosecute non-Indians for domestic violence
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· Washington state’s new members of Congress fret over looming budget cuts
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· Food issues could complicate Obama’s proposed European trade deal
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