My thanks to Politics in Minnesota and their morning report editor Peter Bartz-Gallagher for profiling me in the new Blogger Q&A feature in their Weekly Report. To be the first blogger included in this feature is an honor deserved more by some of the fancy big city bloggers out there but I wasn’t about to turn it down. Here is an excerpt of my comments about the political relevance of the Iron Range:
The average Iron Ranger votes much more regularly than in other areas. Our voter turnout percentage ranges from 80 to 90 percent in most local towns. However, I see fewer candidates for small town and county elections and an absolute drop off in civic club participation. Those days as we knew them might be fading. I do the blog as a way of trying to keep the Iron Range tradition alive in the Internet age. I think my generation of Iron Rangers will one day feel the fire in the belly to reverse some of these trends, but probably not the same way their parents and grandparents perceived civic engagement.
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