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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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.…
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Ten million Benjamins lined up for Essar’s new Range mine?
If it’s Friday afternoon on the Iron Range, some distant corporation must be quietly releasing an extremely important piece of news in a highly controlled manner. Folks ’round here just call this Miller Time. The Hibbing Daily Tribune reports today that “foreign media outlets” are reporting that Essar Steel Minnesota has secured $1 billion in…
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Click on this airport post to increase your enreadments
Headline: “Enplanements keep rising.” This is from a Hibbing Daily Tribune story about how one (!) additional passenger flew out of Hibbing’s Range Regional Airport in August compared to July. Now, the news itself is unremarkable, maybe even good in these economic times. But feel free to let your mind work over the wordplay for…
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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…
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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…
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Mini retreat boasts bold agenda
Sometimes I have to post a local link just for the headline: “Chaos is the focus of Women’s Mini Retreat” (Hibbing Daily Tribune). So much material here. A lot might focus on “chaos” as the funniest thing about this headline, but I choose to highlight “mini.” Indeed, if chaos can be handled at a mini…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…