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7B DFL PRIMARY FOCUS: Roger Reinert
MinnesotaBrown is running a series of posts this week featuring the DFL candidates for Duluth’s House District 7B in their own words. The winner of the Sept. 9 DFL primary will face Republican Allan Kehr and Independence Party candidate Jay Cole, who do not face primary opposition. Tuesday, we featured Brandon Clokey. Wednesday featured John…
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Here’s what you find in Range area online classifieds
From a local online listing: I’m looking to buy a non Casterated Boar. Fairly young. And wellmannered. We will haul. No ill-mannered non “casterated” boars, please. Just the nice, hot, young, polite kind of boars … to be hauled away for procreative purposes. Mmm. Boars. Related posts: No related posts.
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Culture wars
After watching Wednesday night’s Republican convention, I realize that our disagreements in this country are much more over personality and culture than they are political. Sure, there are plenty of political disagreements. But Sarah Palin’s selection as John McCain’s VP, her speech and the speeches that led up to it were not overt arguments for…
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7B weekend battle begins for DFL primary candidates
The series of candidate profiles continues, but there are several developments in House District 7B tonight that continue to suggest that the frontrunners in the race are Roger Reinert and Marsh Stenersen. First of all, candidate John Derbis told me tonight that he will be supporting Marsh Stenersen in the primary. He’ll announce this tomorrow…
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7B DFL PRIMARY FOCUS: Daniel Maryland
MinnesotaBrown is running a series of posts this week featuring the DFL candidates for Duluth’s House District 7B in their own words. The winner of the Sept. 9 DFL primary will face Republican Allan Kehr and Independence Party candidate Jay Cole, who do not face primary opposition. Yesterday, we featured Brandon Clokey. Today, with no…
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7B DFL PRIMARY FOCUS: John Derbis
MinnesotaBrown is running a series of posts this week featuring the DFL candidates for Duluth’s House District 7B in their own words. The winner of the Sept. 9 DFL primary will face Republican Allan Kehr and Independence Party candidate Jay Cole, who do not face primary opposition. Yesterday, we featured Brandon Clokey. Today, continuing in…
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Ventura hints at 2012 run during Ron Paul event
Oh, yes. former Gov. Jesse Ventura (I-MN) may have seized the mantle of “Ron Paul of 2012” Tuesday. By that time, young voters who remember his wrestling days will be over 30. I bet they’ll still have the action figures, though. Related posts: No related posts.
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GOP up north: yesterday and tomorrow
Chuck Frederick, a columnist at the Duluth News-Tribune, wrote a fine historical piece Tuesday explaining the historical role the Republican Party has played in Northern Minnesota and Duluth, now considered a Democratic stronghold. Though not mentioned in the piece, the Iron Range was also a Republican stronghold in the pre-FDR years. All of this changed…
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7B DFL PRIMARY FOCUS: Brandon Clokey
MinnesotaBrown is running a series of posts this week featuring the DFL candidates for Duluth’s House District 7B in their own words. The winner of the Sept. 9 DFL primary will face Republican Allan Kehr and Independence Party candidate Jay Cole, who do not face primary opposition. Today, beginning in alphabetical order, is Brandon Clokey.…
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Heffernan is back, with book and blog
Last June I wrote about the unfortunate separation between the Duluth News Tribune and its longtime columnist Jim Heffernan, who had previously worked for decades in the DNT’s newsroom. We have not heard the end of Mr. Heffernan. In fact, he’ll be joining me in the northern Minnesota blogsphere and writing a monthly column for…
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Movie voiceover guy was from Duluth
You may have seen on the cable or broadcast news that Don LaFontaine, the “King of Voiceovers,” passed away Monday at age 68. This is the guy who, famous in many works of satire, starts movie trailer voiceovers with the phrase “In a world …” For instance: “In a world, where terror is the law…
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From Farmers’ Day to the week ahead
You probably know I write this blog from the Iron Range, a labor bastion known for its mining. Labor Day is, thus, a suitably big deal on the Range. Nevertheless, on the western Mesabi Range, where I live, the seemingly odd local tradition of Bovey Farmers’ Day takes place on Labor Day. We attended Farmers’…
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Range mine strike averted
Cleveland Cliffs and the Steelworkers have announced a tentative labor agreement at Hibbing Taconite and United Taconite in Eveleth, averting a strike. UPDATE: Neglected to mention that Minorca settled … no mine strikes this year. Related posts: No related posts.
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Beware the dark hearted bloviators
Frank Rich is among the best in the New York Times stable of columnists. Sure, I tend to agree with him more often than others, but I also think he makes the most reasoned appeals. In his column today, (“Obama outwits the bloviators“) Rich tears apart the big media “bloviators” that I and most political…
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Questions spawn stories; stories are life
UPDATE: Apparently some kind of error occurred at the paper and an older column of mine ran Sunday. This column will appear in the hard edition of the newspaper at some point in the future. UPDATE 2: This will run on Sunday, Sept. 7 in the paper. You got a scoop here on the blog.…