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  • COLUMN: Scary amount of election cash this All Hallows (Election) Eve

    COLUMN: Scary amount of election cash this All Hallows (Election) Eve

    This is my weekly column for the Sunday, Oct. 31, 2010 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. Scary amount of election cash this All Hallows (Election) EveBy Aaron J. Brown The Washington Post reported last week that candidates will spend more than a combined $2 billion in the nation’s House and Senate races so far…

  • COLUMN: The real tweet

    COLUMN: The real tweet

    This is my column for the Sunday, Oct. 24, 2010 edition of Hibbing Daily Tribune. The real tweetBy Aaron J. Brown The internet is for narcissists. Narcissistic internet people told me this on their blogs, so I know it’s true. I’m smart like that. And I have a blog. But even as the internet goes,…

  • COLUMN: Wouldn’t you like to know!

    COLUMN: Wouldn’t you like to know!

    My column for today’s Oct. 17, 2010 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune is an expanded version of a post I wrote here last week and rewrote for MinnPost a few days later called “The Minnesota Twins and the Meaning of Life.” I could repost the whole thing today, but instead I’ll ask that you…

  • COLUMN: On the other side of the forbidden ridge

    COLUMN: On the other side of the forbidden ridge

    This is my weekly column for the Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. This piece may or may not be based on my experiences strolling around the vicinity of a certain local mine last week. On the other side of the forbidden ridgeBy Aaron J. Brown For two generations, young people…

  • COLUMN: Keep it interesting, Minnesota

    COLUMN: Keep it interesting, Minnesota

    This is my weekly column for the Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. Keep it interesting, MinnesotaBy Aaron J. Brown I’ve been trying to quit, but it’s so hard. Temptation is all around and it’s only going to get worse. I wish I never started. I’m talking about politics, not pills.…

  • COLUMN: Turning leaves, reading the signs

    COLUMN: Turning leaves, reading the signs

    This is my weekly column for the Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. Turning leaves, reading the signs By Aaron J. Brown The grass grows slowly now. Cool and dry, the lawn cuts smoother than at any time in 2010. But you’d never know it the way the leaves are falling.…

  • COLUMN: The wheels on the bus go away

    COLUMN: The wheels on the bus go away

    This is my weekly column for the Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. The wheels on the bus go awayBy Aaron J. Brown The frost glittered off the cold gray highway, yellow lines the warmest part of a crisp winter morning. Bright, flat sunlight beamed off the snow, deadening in the…

  • COLUMN: The empire of Iron Range past

    COLUMN: The empire of Iron Range past

    This is my weekly column for the Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. Once again, this is inspired by a blog post earlier in the week. The empire of Iron Range pastBy Aaron J. Brown Last week the family and I headed out to Palo, another of the wonderful scrub-brush townships…

  • COLUMN: The white pine falls

    COLUMN: The white pine falls

    This is my weekly column for the Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. You’ll notice that it is based, in part, on a post I wrote here last week. The white pine fallsBy Aaron J. Brown Sometime in March the ice usually lifted off the untouched rivers and lakes north of…

  • COLUMN: School days spring fresh every fall

    COLUMN: School days spring fresh every fall

    This is my weekly column for the Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. A version of this piece ran in Saturday’s edition of “Between You and Me” on 91.7 KAXE. School days spring fresh every fallBy Aaron J. Brown You have to love the unbending reality of seasons. A mere human…

  • COLUMN: Even Bob the Builder has it rough

    COLUMN: Even Bob the Builder has it rough

    This is my weekly column for the Sunday, Aug. 22, 2010 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. Even Bob the Builder has it roughBy Aaron J. Brown In this dim economy, even Bob the Builder struggles. The animated Bob, found locally on public TV, builds and fixes ecologically friendly outbuildings with his sentient pieces of…

  • COLUMN: High speed internet can create new jobs on the Iron Range

    COLUMN: High speed internet can create new jobs on the Iron Range

    This is my column for the Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. High speed internet would create new Range jobsBy Aaron J. Brown I write this entire column, every word of it, while I am uploading a large but not unusually large piece of video to YouTube for a statewide media…

  • COLUMN: Now, it all seriousness

    COLUMN: Now, it all seriousness

    This is my weekly column for the Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. Now, in all seriousnessBy Aaron J. Brown Anonymous internet comments are a relatively new invention, though the core concept predates the web. In the old days, people just yelled at their TV or threw a rock wrapped in…

  • COLUMN: The weather alert radio of love

    COLUMN: The weather alert radio of love

    This is my weekly column for the Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. A version of this piece ran was broadcast as commentary on the July 31 episode of “Between You and Me” on KAXE. The weather alert radio of loveBy Aaron J. Brown Since first dawn storms have rumbled across…

  • COLUMN: Iron Range 1969

    This is my weekly column for the Sunday, July 25, 2010 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. Thanks to Bill Lah for connecting me with the report mentioned in this column. Iron Range 1969By Aaron J. Brown (Chorus) Back in Summer of ’69 Man we were killin’ time.We were young and restless.We needed to unwind.I…