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Happy Thanksgiving!
Thanksgiving is still the great, unspoiled American holiday. Cheap as a cooked bird and all about the family. Enjoy your Thanksgiving. No blogging today. Probably no blogging tomorrow. Get off the blogs. Eat! Be merry! Related posts: No related posts.
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From a Blue fall to Purple times
Political junkies are still learning to cope with the dramatic emotional drop-off that has occurred after the end of the election. Sure, we still have the Minnesota Senate recount and idle chatter about President-elect Obama’s cabinet to poke at. Some of the hard cases are really tweaking out over these things. But that’s nothing compared…
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Up north, the front line in the battle over ‘new’ journalism
Here’s an interesting post from “Graham” at Entrecard, a traffic service for bloggers. He suggests, tongue in cheek, that it’s the journalism industry that really needs a bailout. Here’s an excerpt: I don’t have the solutions, but I know four things about the future of journalism, blogging, and newspapers: Print newspapers will die. People will…
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Iron Range agency adds blog
Over at the Iron Range Resources agency, longtime area newspaper reporter and current IRR public information officer Lee Bloomquist has begun blogging for the agency. It’s a “company blog” to be sure, but his first post gives some interesting information and pictures on the new Mesabi Nugget plant near Hoyt Lakes which will be operating…
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Coming up at MinnesotaBrown
You may have noticed less political content at MinnesotaBrown lately. I’ve been focusing on my book and resulting book promotion lately, much of which is apolitical. Also I’m trying to detox after the busy election season. The ongoing U.S. Senate recount in Minnesota is to a decompressing political junkie what Black Velvet whiskey is to…
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Facebook ‘splosion
I know this only serves to demonstrate my unhip unhipness but I just got on Facebook for the first time and it is totally overwhelming. People are giving me animals (?), hugging me (?) inviting me to join things or go to strange towns to attend spaghetti dinners. People are chatting, sending messages and writing…
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Heading up to the shack…
I may be slow on responding to comments or reporting news over the next two days. I’ll be up at the family deer shack for the next day and then the busy world of Monday arrives. It’s extremely cold and windy outside, but at least it’s also moist. It’s been a lot of years since…
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Tracking the results (Thanks, MPR!)
A hearty thank you to Minnesota Public Radio for providing free customizable election results widgets for blogs. As you can see on the right hand menu bar I will have the Secretary of State results for Minnesota President, U.S. Senate, and the Iron Range and Duluth Legislative races. I have also included 4A, 4B and…
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All Hallow’s Eve Special
My car is still in the shop so I am riding around in the family minivan today. I got to drive over the spot on 56 where I scraped three Gs worth of car parts off my wagon’s undercarriage in the car/deer incident a few days ago. The blood spot looks like an execution site…
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Deer troubles
Car vs. deer. The car is not well, but the deer is worse. We couldn’t find part of the deer along the highway, but the mechanics found it later … in the guts of the car. My station wagon looked like it was used to run down zombies. Happy Halloween. I’ll blog more when I…
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Changes to MinnesotaBrown
You might have seen a couple months or so ago that I changed the design here at MinnesotaBrown. Well, it was nice, but we decided to call in some professional help to fix up the parts I couldn’t figure out how to improve. Starting now and through the weekend you might see some glitches as…
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UPDATED: Hillary Clinton in the Duluth/Iron Range media
Here’s a roundup of coverage of Hillary Clinton’s visit to the Iron Range. I was there and filed this report and analysis. Duluth News Tribune: “Clinton hits pocketbook issues in Iron Range rally for Obama” by Janna Goerdt. Straight forward event story, starts by talking to Clinton supporter who’s still backing the ticket; I’m quoted…
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Show me the money … in fractions of pennies over the fullness of time
The problem with the new media is that very, very few people can make a living in it. Blogging is popular, diverse and exciting; but utterly unprofitable. I do this blog because A) I am an obsessive news geek addicted to information and politics; B) It soothes my insatiable ego; and C) I justify the…
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My first op/ed
I’ve written a lot of things. Columns. Editorials. Newspaper stories about a guy running for president out of a van that he shares with his foreign-born wife and two small children. But I have never written an “op/ed,” a special kind of editorial/column hybrid named for its traditional positioning on the “opposite” page from the…
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The fish goes ‘crunch’
I’ve been a bad political blogger lately. Norm Coleman is all caught up in a free suit controversy and Iron Range State Rep. Tony Sertich’s Republican opponent is doing region-wide negative TV ads wearing a white turtleneck and an orange hunting vest. There is so much to talk about and so little time with all…