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Sustainability: Iron Range style
This is my weekly column for the Sunday, Oct. 19, 2008 Hibbing Daily Tribune. A shorter version of this piece aired as an essay on KAXE’s “Between You and Me” last month. I will be reading a longer version of this piece for the Nov. 5 Northeast Higher Education District Sustainability Conference at Hibbing Community…
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On the cover of ‘Tailings’
The first newspaper profile of my new book “Overburden: Modern Life on the Iron Range” was featured today on the cover of the “Tailings” (A&E) section of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. Jeff Warner interviewed me last week and wrote this kind story that you should read right now. Now that I’ve done two long format…
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Big picture ignored in nursing home issue
This is my weekly column for the Sunday, Oct. 12 Hibbing Daily Tribune. I archive my columns at my writing site. Big picture ignored in nursing home issueBy Aaron J. Brown Like many of you, I learned about the impending closure of Hibbing’s Golden Crest nursing home on the front page of the Hibbing Daily…
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Overburden media tour fires up
I’ve been doing interviews for my new book, “Overburden: Modern Life on the Iron Range” and you’ll start to see and hear some of these in Minnesota media. Jeff Warner is writing a story that will run in the “Tailings” section of the Sunday, Oct. 12 Hibbing Daily Tribune. “Tailings” is like the A&E section,…
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The season that shall not yet be named
This is my weekly column for the Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008 Hibbing Daily Tribune. This piece is based on an essay I read for KAXE’s “Between You and Me” a couple weeks ago. The season that shall not yet be namedBy Aaron J. Brown In the American folk song “Goodnight, Irene,” the narrator tells us…
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COLUMN: A bad idea that got way too big
This is my weekly column for the Sunday, Sept. 28, 2008 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. I archive my columns at my writing site. My book, “Overburden: Modern Life on the Iron Range,” is beginning to be available in Iron Range and Duluth book stores and will be available on the big online stores…
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Following up on Otto visit to Hibbing for Obama press event
The Hibbing Daily Tribune runs this story by Kelly Grinsteinner in today’s edition about yesterday’s Rebecca Otto press conference for the Obama campaign in Hibbing. The gist of the message was that money spent rebuilding Iraq could be spent rebuilding infrastructure in towns like Hibbing or others across the Iron Range. Related posts: No related…
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The stadium name game
This is my weekly column for the Sunday, Sept. 21, 2008 Hibbing Daily Tribune. I archive my columns at my writing page. The stadium name gameBy Aaron J. BrownBy now you’ve probably heard the name of the Minnesota Twins’ new baseball field slated to open for the 2010 season. The Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, site…
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The Downtown Dilemma
Wednesday’s Hibbing Daily Tribune features a Jeff Warner story about the effect of shopping locally. The story relies heavily on the comments of local business owners who have an obvious stake in keeping dollars in town. I wrote stories like this when I was at the Hibbing paper. I did them when I worked in…
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The Hay Days
This is my weekly column for the Sunday, Sept. 14 Hibbing Daily Tribune. I archive my columns at my writing site and also write an original essay each week for KAXE, Northern Community Radio. Hay DaysBy Aaron J. Brown Hay! That’s what my wife and I say to each other when we pass hay bales…
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Take two on the questions column
My weekly column for Sunday’s Hibbing Daily Tribune is the one that was scheduled to run last week. It didn’t run, presumably because of a ninja attack or pirates. Read it here. It’s a piece about StoryCorps which is in Grand Rapids gathering interviews for the unique historical and cultural project involving NPR and the…
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Questions spawn stories; stories are life
UPDATE: Apparently some kind of error occurred at the paper and an older column of mine ran Sunday. This column will appear in the hard edition of the newspaper at some point in the future. UPDATE 2: This will run on Sunday, Sept. 7 in the paper. You got a scoop here on the blog.…
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Obama office opening gets boffo coverage in Range paper
In this morning’s Hibbing Daily Tribune was the following above-the-fold, top banner headline, with picture of visiting voters and 11-month old “Babies for Barack” caucus leader: Opama opens Hibbing office DFLers, veterans rally to Barack cause Check out the story and photos of what certainly seems to be a successful opening of the second Iron…
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Coupon quest
This is my weekly column for the Sunday, Aug. 24, 2008 Hibbing Daily Tribune. Coupon questBy Aaron J. Brown Economic woes introduce many people to the world of couponing. It’s not that our current economy is oppressively bad; no one is selling apples on street corners or loading family possessions into cars to go pick…
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On proper boat maintenance and our fathers’ mysteries
This is my weekly column for the Sunday, Aug. 17, 2008 Hibbing Daily Tribune. On proper boat maintenance and our fathers’ mysteriesBy Aaron J. Brown Today, I have a boat. Not a boat, but the boat. I would need to consult my notes, the dusty old owner’s manual and the title to tell you all…