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The merry month of May launches a season of toil
Happy Memorial Day! The blog has enjoyed a busy May. We covered the end of the legislative session, redistricting talk and analysis, the ramping up of the MN-8 campaign, (Bob) Dylan Days in Hibbing, the governor’s fishing opener, the biting of an Iron Range mayor by an “alleged mayor biter,” roller derby, the retirement of…
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Follow MinnesotaBrown’s new Facebook page
Fans of this blog should follow the new MinnesotaBrown Facebook Page. My cool new Facebook real estate is at Facebook.com/ironrange. Until now I’ve offered a Networked Blogs feed for Facebook that many of you follow. I’ll still support that feed but I ask that all of you “like” the new page if you’re a Facebook…
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We’re back
Like most blogs hosted with Blogger, MinnesotaBrown.com was frozen in a Wednesday evening stasis until just this afternoon. It appears that the blog is now functioning normally and, as you can see, I am able to post again. A few items will be forthcoming. No, I am not considering a move to WordPress. I am…
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The week that was
Looking back it was a busy week of writing here at the blog. I reviewed trends in copper mining, shared city services and older mine workers on the Iron Range. I analyzed the proposed redistricting maps from a Range perspective. We took a look at community colleges as the future of higher education. I had…
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No time for politics, a glimpse ahead to my summer of letters
As fires burn across this world, we endure. I have been posting a little less frequently than I’d like but about as often as I can afford right now. Life is busy and as many of you know I have young children and a real job (which is not this). I took some time off…
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Welcome to MinnesotaBrown.com
Over the past month this blog has come to be the go-to source for information about the House District 5B Special Election. If you found the blog this way you might assume that all I do here is Range politics. Well, there’s more to it than that and I hope you consider following this blog…
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Top MinnesotaBrown posts for 2010
Another year has come and gone. In keeping with a recent tradition I now highlight some of my top Google Analytics posts from 2010. After the list I’ll share a few favorites that never caught on. MOST READ POSTS About my friend Tom Anzelc — I hate that this one came out on top but…
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My secret project is not-so-secret trend
The New York Times Book Review has a story (“All Programs Considered” by Bill McKibben) that fits nicely, perhaps too nicely, with thoughts I have been having lately about the direction of my writing and media projects. You know that this blog and my columns, essays and book, are professional in that I am sometimes…
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Northern Minnesota political series on the way
I’m still trying to find the right voice and posting frequency here on MinnesotaBrown. The blog will be an important part of some new radio/internet projects I’m exploring for 2011, but for now I’m still deciding the right mix of political commentary, regional news and my ramblings as a typical internet blather-lord. It’s a strange…
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Live blogging #mnblogconf (Minnesota Blog Conference) in St. Paul
Here are some intermittent updates from today’s Minnesota Blog Conference in downtown St. Paul: 3:03 pmI’m ODing on blog talk. Need steak and open flames, anything three dimensional will do. More later. 11:35 amEgg salad, because I live dangerously. 11:14 amMe to “blog-to-book” presenter: “How do I break out of regional base to national audience?”…
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Minnesota blog conference lures Browns to urban environs
Today Christina and I will be heading south for the Minnesota Blog Conference in St. Paul. She’ll be presenting in one of the sessions on Saturday and I will be a dutiful participant in all the proceedings. I look forward to meeting some of our colleagues in the Minnesota blogosphere and learning more about our…
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A new look at MinnesotaBrown
You’ll notice some changes here at MinnesotaBrown.com. With some fantastic help from my wife Christina we’ve implemented a new template and header. This is part of my long range plan to do more creative work here on the blog in addition to my established regional and state commentary. Think The Awl but with mostly one…
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Look! In the skies above Minnesota: The Blog Signal
As we speak I’m making plans to attend the first ever, (FREE!) Minnesota Blogger Conference in Minneapolis on Sept. 11, 2010. I usually don’t leave the wooded highlands of the Iron Range, except for court dates, speaking gigs and the procurement of rare goods and sundries. Conferences are the sort of thing I avoid, preferring…
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MinnesotaBrown on KAXE talking primary, politics and the Range
I’ll be on 91.7 KAXE talking about the primary election results Wednesday morning at 7:40 or so. Listen in at 91.7 FM in northern Minnesota and streaming live at www.kaxe.org. Related posts: No related posts.
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Coming soon: Art, politics and more
There’s a lot going on in my “normal” life but I will make a few program notes about what’s coming up here at MinnesotaBrown. Don’t forget that “Art in the Park” will fire up again at the Minnesota Discovery Center in Chisholm Thursday evening at 5 p.m. with another great collection of local musicians playing…