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A better welcome wagon means fewer farewells
This is my weekly column that ran in the Sunday, April 19, 2009 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. Ironically, this piece written in an 18th century format was inspired by a prompt from the ProBlogger 31 Days to a Better Blog challenge. What a world! A better welcome wagon means fewer farewellsBy Aaron J.…
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Big Easter, Inc.
This is my weekly column for the Easter Sunday, April 12, 2009 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune, posted on the day of publication in honor of the holiday. Happy Easter, everyone! Big Easter, Inc.By Aaron J. Brown Easter Sunday dawns today, bringing all manner of religious, seasonal and sugar-related significance. For Christians, Easter remains…
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Bartering hard in the Information Age
This was my weekly column from the Sunday, April 5, 2009 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. A version of this also aired as an essay on KAXE‘s “Between You and Me.” Bartering hard in the Information AgeBy Aaron J. Brown Between 6,000 and 9,000 B.C. people started using livestock as a sort of living…
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News from the equinox
This is my weekly column for the Sunday, March 29, 2009 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. A version of this piece will air on next week’s “Between You and Me,” Saturday morning on 91.7 KAXE. News from the equinox By Aaron J. Brown Last week we welcomed the spring equinox. Note that I did…
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Wearing many ‘hats,’ a good hat is hard to find
This is my weekly column from the Sunday, March 22, 2009 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. I read a version of this piece for the March 21 edition of “Between You and Me” on KAXE. Wearing many ‘hats,’ a good hat is hard to findBy Aaron J. Brown Let me begin by saying that…
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‘Please’ and ‘Thank You," signs of hope
This is my weekly column for the Sunday, March 15 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. A version of this piece ran as an essay on KAXE‘s “Between You and Me” on March 7. ‘Please’ and ‘Thank You,’ signs of hopeBy Aaron J. Brown As a relatively young parent of relatively young children the words…
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Name these times
This is my weekly column for the Sunday, March 8, 2009 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. Name these timesBy Aaron J. Brown The Great Depression. The Crusades. The Dark Ages. The Renaissance. And, of course, the Iron Range Recession of the 1980s (known locally by one pseudo-word: “Da’eighties”). These terms describe historic periods of…
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Wii won’t let me go
This is my weekly column that was published in the Sunday, March 1, 2009 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. A version of this piece was used as an essay broadcast on 91.7 KAXE‘s “Between You and Me” program this past December. Wii won’t let me goBy Aaron J. Brown There’s a machine in my…
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On the brink of the new, or the end
This is my weekly column for the Hibbing Daily Tribune published Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009. On the brink of the new, or the endBy Aaron J. Brown Today, amid the droning headlines of the flagging national economy, I’m here to write the words you long to hear. Everything on the Iron Range is going to…
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‘These things are old; these things are true’
This is my weekly column published Sunday, Feb. 15, 2009 in the Hibbing Daily Tribune. I read a portion of this for a recent episode of “Between You and Me” on 91.7 KAXE. ‘These things are old; these things are true’By Aaron J. Brown We live in a time of great abstraction. Economists most folks…
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From hugs to headlocks
This was my column for the Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. This piece was based on an early essay I wrote for KAXE’s weekly program “Between You and Me.” From hugs to headlocksBy Aaron J. Brown Hornets. In summary, hornets buzz around the center of my sibling experience growing up…
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‘We are stardust’
This is my weekly column that ran in the Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. ‘We are stardust’By Aaron J. Brown During my elementary years people would ask me my favorite subject in school. Science, I would say. Science seemed the most real. Reality is a valuable substance where I am…
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Change I can write about
This is my weekly column that ran in the Sunday, Jan. 25, 2009 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. Change I can write aboutBy Aaron J. Brown You’re never supposed to start a column with the words, “I didn’t know what to write about so (insert pop culture reference or observation of the weather).” It’s…
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A whole (parking) lot of anarchy
This is my weekly column that ran in the Sunday, Jan. 18, 2009 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune: A whole (parking) lot of anarchyBy Aaron J. Brown Even here in Northern Minnesota, where we’re used to a cold, snowy winter, it takes time to fully adjust to winter driving. Drivers struggle with slippery intersections…
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In honor of the King holiday, a bonus column … reprised
In honor of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday, here’s a bonus column originally published in the Jan. 14, 2007 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. This was before I or anyone could have predicted we’d be swearing in an African-American president tomorrow. ‘Every mountainside’ means ore dumps too By Aaron J. Brown Monday…