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Life of an Iron Range blogger, Part 2
I’m working on other projects this week, so instead of my normal posts I’m sharing a glimpse into some of the images that make up my life as an Iron Range blogger. When people think of the Range they might think of mines, rough-looking blue collar towns, piles of red dirt, pine trees and lakes.…
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Life of an Iron Range blogger, Part 1
It’s officially summer in my world, which — unlike other teachers — means more work than ever. I have a book due June 16, a summer course starting next week and a legislative campaign committee to fire up. Therefore, this week and perhaps the next few weeks will be light on blogging. Instead I’ll be…
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It’s go time!
We’ve got a life or death school levy referendum on the west Range, flood waters perched over an Iron Range town, the potential unraveling of a economic development boondoggle, Dylan Days in Hibbing, the end of the legislative session, the potential end of the Democratic nomination fight,and it’s finals week and I have two reams…
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I’ve got the Power! (for now)
There’s a lot going on around Minnesota and the Iron Range. I had about six posts I was going to work on this weekend in between paper grading (finals week!) until the wind started. High winds knocked out power around 4 p.m. Saturday out here in the deep woods Brown Compound. You know what you…
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Paper Chase
Believe it or not, I don’t pay my bills with this blog. If I did I’d be on a slow boat to an Australian debtors prison now. I teach at a community college and finals week is coming up. From now through next week I’ll be grading a massive amount of papers, all while keeping…
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OMG! I’m a Millennial! WTF!
Good news. I’m a Millennial (born after 1978). Apparently that’s a good thing. There’s more of us than there are living baby boomers. We like the Internet. A lot of us have blogs. A recent research paper available at this Case Foundation blog suggests that we Millennials might try to survive without a government in…
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Political blogs at the Minnesota Capitol
The Forum Communications legislative bureau ran a story on the role of blogs in Minnesota politics in their state papers. Marisa Helms interviewed me and used a quote at the end of the story. I was dubbed a “liberal blogger” in the story, though I bet other “liberal blogs” don’t support legalized moonshine and automatic…
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48 hour media blitz
Within 48 hours, I’ll cover all major forms of media. Tonight at 6 and 10 I’ll be on Range 11’s TV newscast talking about Dylan Days (May 22-25 in Hibbing); tomorrow the radio commentary on KAXE, Sunday morning’s Hibbing Daily Tribune column and, of course, the omnipresent blog you see here. I’m riding the air.…
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MinnesotaBrown featured in ‘Politics in Minnesota’ weekly report
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…
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Enjoy these fine Range blogs
I’d like to point out a couple of quasi-political blogs that people have sent me. The blogging community on the Iron Range is rather small so I am happy to spread the love, and links, when I can. These two blogs are both run by guys named Paul, but one is east Range and the…
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Oh, those Wednesdays
My weekly schedule is a little like that of a ninja. Nothing happens. Nothing happens. Someone kills my master and damn, I’ve got work. Well, there were dudes in jammies with swords everywhere today. (And the metaphor will end … now). So I’ll give you a brief roundup of the stories I’m monitoring the rest…
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Thanks … now the work continues
A belated thank you to all the people who have attended the KAXE Community Journalism Project blog sessions across the Iron Range. We held our third session in Virginia last night and a great group of people spurred a good discussion of community blogging. The work continues. Stay tuned for news about future sessions and…
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Blog revolution needs more revolutionaries
UPDATE: We’re on! You can still register, but we have enough people to hold the session now and you can just show up if you want. If you’re interested, please register for Wednesday night’s free blogging seminar at in room C-156 at Mesabi Range Community and Technical College in Virginia. You can just show up…
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Join the Northern Minnesota blog revolution!
Hello friends. On Wednesday, March 26 I’ll be hosting yet another blogging seminar for the KAXE Community Journalism Project at Mesabi Range Community and Technical College in Virginia, Minn. I briefly explain blogging, how it works and how to start a blog and then share information on a community project that supports new and existing…
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I return, bearing the head of the dragon called First Draft
I still have to mop up the blood on the last essay, but I’ve had a good week of writing for my book of Iron Range essays and finally feel like I can dabble in the time vortex that is blogging. Thanks to the person or persons who contributed so many fine lines of dialogue…