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House 5B Candidate Commentary: John Spanish
MinnesotaBrown offered a 600-word guest post to all the candidates in the House District 5B Special Election. The final entry in the series runs today with John Spanish. (Note: Mr. Spanish hand wrote a statement for the Hibbing Daily Tribune which graciously shared the resulting item with permission). HIBBING — A former state legislator has…
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DFL to endorse in 5B primary; Pierce wins backing of Steelworkers local
A few more interesting notes on 5B to pass along: The DFL will hold an endorsing convention at the former HCC/Range Tech central campus at 9:30 a.m. Saturday. None of the candidates will be able to abide by the endorsement, on account of the impending primary on Tuesday, Feb. 1, but local DFL leaders have…
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House 5B Update: Forum blasts candidates into final weekend
One of five DFL candidates for the District 5B House of Representatives special election will advance from the Feb. 1 primary to the Feb. 15 general election. A credible Republican opponent who’s run before, Paul Jacobson, and Cynthia Kafut Hagen, a former DFLer turned Independence Party candidate, await the Democrat. For all the drama of…
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The immigrant journey on the Iron Range shown anew
A new exhibit opens this weekend at the Minnesota Discovery Center (formerly Ironworld) in Chisholm. My Iron Range history hero Pam Brunfelt opens the exhibit Saturday. Journey Stories exhibit to open at Minnesota Discovery Center Minnesota Discovery Center in Chisholm will host the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum on Main Street exhibit Journey Stories January 29 through…
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House 5B Primary Candidate Commentary: Shelley Robinson
MinnesotaBrown offered a 600-word guest post to all the candidates in the House District 5B Special Election. The fourth in the series runs today with Shelley Robinson . As a DFL candidate for Minnesota House District 5B, I want to introduce myself and share my perspective on the upcoming legislative session. My name is Shelley…
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House 5B Primary Candidate Commentary: Carly Melin
MinnesotaBrown offered a 600-word guest post to all the candidates in the House District 5B Special Election. The third in the series runs today with Carly Melin. I am honored to have the privilege of asking for your vote for state representative next Tuesday, February 1. We have a long tradition of great public…
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Hibbing college to host only 5B primary forum Wednesday
By now you’re well aware of my coverage of the House 5B special election. As part of my day job at Hibbing Community College I am faculty co-advisor to Student Senate. The students are holding a forum for the DFL Primary candidates and another one later for the general election candidates. Here is the press…
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House 5B Primary Candidate Commentary: Ray Pierce Jr.
MinnesotaBrown offered a 600-word guest post to all the candidates in the House District 5B Special Election. The second in the series runs today with Ray Pierce Jr. I am a lifelong resident of Hibbing MN. I graduated from Hibbing High School and attended classes in Business Management at HCC. I have grown up on…
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AFSCME backs Melin in 5B
Carly Melin won the first big union endorsements in the House 5B Special Election DFL primary. Her campaign released this today: DFL candidate Carly Melin, vying for state representative, district 5B, wins the first major union endorsement in the election. AFSCME Council 5 & AFSCME Council 65 endorsed Carly Melin because of her strong stands…
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House 5B Primary Candidate Commentary: Jeff Kletscher
MinnesotaBrown offered a 600-word guest post to all the candidates in the House District 5B Special Election. The first in the series runs today with Floodwood Mayor Jeff Kletscher. Thank you for the opportunity to share a few words with you. I have been a resident of Floodwood since August 1989, when I came to…
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House 5B update: Door to door at ten below
I received some reports from boots on the ground in the House 5B DFL primary campaigns this weekend. And when I say boots on the ground, I mean big, honking clod-hopper boots on the cold, hard ground. On a pair of days in which the temperature barely reached zero here on the Iron Range, candidates…
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COLUMN: We who sail the seas set the course
This is my weekly column which ran in the Saturday, Jan. 22, 2011 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. The column ran a day early because I was told that the large volume of letters to the editor regarding the House 5B special election pushed me off the Sunday page. That’s great, because the Saturday…
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Melin to host Saturday event featuring music from Paul Metsa
Carly Melin will host a candidate meet and greet from 5-7 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 22 at Zimmy’s in Hibbing. The event will feature live music from Iron Range native and well known Minnesota folk rocker Paul Metsa. Melin, a Hibbing attorney in the state judiciary, is one of five DFLers seeking the House 5B…
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Veda Ponikvar endorses Robinson in 5B special
Shelley Robinson earned a notable endorsement in the House 5B special election Thursday. Former Chisholm newspaper publisher and longtime Iron Range leader Veda Ponikvar offered her support to Robinson. From the campaign release: … Ponikvar reports that “for the past 20 years, Shelley Robinson has been a passionate advocate for the less fortunate among our…
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Primary drama, cold winds, hot Iron Range politics flood House 5B special
Open legislative seats on northern Minnesota’s Iron Range always attract drama, and not the sort of snappy, well-timed dialogue like you see in “The West Wing.” No, this drama is sometimes brutal, awkward, but extraordinarily rich, unflinchingly real, spanning generations like a great bridge. Today it begins anew. Seven candidates have filed for the special…