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Brown on the Air: Gym Class
Tune in Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon on 91.7 KAXE to hear “Between You and Me.” I contribute essays to the call-in and music show, which profiles a different cultural topic each week from a distinctly northern Minnesota point of view. This week we’re talking about gym class. That’s a sore subject for a…
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Health care tour comes to Hibbing today
State Rep. Carolyn Laine, an Iron Range native, will be in Hibbing today with other legislators to tout a bill for universal health care that she and others will be proposing this session. Those interested in the health care debate should check it out. I would go if it weren’t cross-scheduled with the dinnertime insanity…
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For my ‘red’ readers
One other note: Mitt Romney carried the Republican caucuses in Minnesota. I was initially surprised until I remembered how poorly John McCain did here in 2000. I just heard from a Republican friend who attended his caucuses in Hibbing. He said he voted McCain and was confronted with an icy reception. Mike Huckabee and Romney…
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Super Tuesday on the Iron Range
Nothing knocks over a mountain in one night. But when you combine wind and water and the correct amount of time, the mountain is destined to fall. That’s how I feel about the status of my Democratic party this morning. Barack Obama was down by a million a few months ago and now he’s running…
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Giant sloth demise leading to, well, ‘slow’ decline of Joshua tree
Yesterday on National Public Radio I heard an unusual story. The giant sloth is extinct, the announcer read, and scientists are now concerned about what that means for the desert and dry-land Joshua tree. These trees grew in evolutionary symbiosis with the giant sloth as the slow moving giant-clawed creatures were instrumental in the trees’…
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Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
I’ve already implored everyone to get out to caucuses tonight, so it’s in your hands now. You have a few more hours to vote in the MinnesotaBrown online poll predicting who will win the Minnesota DFL and Republican caucuses tonight. Right now it looks like the consensus is Obama and McCain. We’ll know soon enough.…
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Just when things were looking up …
In class Monday I was telling my students how important it was to get out to the caucuses Tuesday night. I wasn’t pitching for my candidate, just telling them that they should go to the party caucus of their choice to have a say in who the major party presidential nominees would be in this…
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Vote straight-ticket ‘Gangsta’ in ’08
This clip shows everything that is great and everything that is wrong with politics and the media in the United States of 2008. 1) A thousand-year-old white man can relate to a Gangsta rapper on a mainstream news network, and 2) their conversation is vastly more substantive than most of what you hear elsewhere. Vote…
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Hawaiian Congressman to appear at Tom and Jerry’s today
It’s not often I get to write a headline like that. An update and clarification about U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie’s (D-Hawaii) visit to the Iron Range to stump for Barack Obama. He will be at Tom and Jerry’s bar in Chisholm at 3 p.m., not at the college as was originally planned. I think this…
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Mesabi Daily News story about Obama’s Range endorsements
Here’s a Mesabi Daily News story about the Iron Range Obama Committee press conference last weekend: Range group backs ObamaBy Charles RamsayCHISHOLM — An area group has stepped up with backing for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, as the Iron Range Leadership Committee voiced its support for the Illinois senator before Minnesota’s Tuesday caucus. Heading…
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Super Tuesday eve
Across the country, people will go to primaries and caucuses tomorrow to make a statement. We will probably know the name of the next Republican nominee for President tomorrow night and we’ll know a lot more about the state of the Democratic race. Regular readers know I’m pretty fond of Barack Obama and, to a…
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Obama tied for national lead; in strangely related story Hawaiian Congressman to visit Range
As the weekend comes to a close, I am about to start drinking beer and/or watching the Super Bowl while temporarily purging my mind of politics. But before then, some notes. According to PoliticalWire, Gallup has Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in a statistical tie in a national poll. State polls show a tight race…
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Iron Range stands at modern crossroads
This is my weekly column for the Hibbing Daily Tribune published Sunday, Feb. 3, 2008. Iron Range stands at modern crossroadsBy Aaron J. BrownModern life hums with information and responsibilities, sometimes real and sometimes imagined. Every day I update the blog, prepare classes, and blaze a trail through the woods while connected wirelessly to the…
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Iron Range Obama press conference called
The latest on the Obama/Iron Range front. I’ll be in Duluth for a prior commitment but anyone interested should check this out. Barack Obama’s Iron Range Leadership Committee Roll OutPress ConferenceSaturday, February 2NOONIronworld in ChisholmThe Rudy Perpich Room Featuring: Co-ChairsRep. Tony SertichRep. Tom Anzelc Related posts: No related posts.
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U.S. Steel is officially rolling in its 5.0, with its ragtop down so its hair can blow
It’s official. U.S. Steel will invest $300 million into Keewatin Taconite, increasing taconite pellet production by more than 3.5 million. The whole project will take three years to fully implement. This also makes U.S. the big daddy steel company on the Iron Range as they now own the top two taconite operations here. PRESS RELEASEOberstar…