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First book signing is tonight!
Just a reminder, the grand opening book signing is tonight at Howard Street Booksellers in Hibbing from 5-7 p.m. Cookies. Juice. Books. Maybe more. Read more about my new book here. Related posts: No related posts.
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Something important to be announced
I’m told something big will be announced regarding the Obama/Biden campaign today at the Sportsmen for Obama event in Grand Rapids. A visit by someone important? This might be a surrogate rather than Obama or Biden, but they have my attention. Related posts: No related posts.
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Me: the MNBlue interview
“The Big E” over at MNBlue, a Minnesota progressive blog where I am an occasional contributor, interviewed me for my new book, “Overburden: Modern Life on the Iron Range,” which is out now. I’ll be taking questions in the comments on his post. My first event will be Thursday, Oct. 16, from 5-7 p.m. at…
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Range college students mobilized in two events; Barkley makes surprise appearance
The Hibbing Daily Tribune ran a story this morning about Monday’s HCC Democracy Fair that I organized at the college where I work. We registered 54 voters, which was nice, and the local State House candidates got a lot of traffic. The most notable news was that Dean Barkley, the Independence Party candidate who has…
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My first op/ed
I’ve written a lot of things. Columns. Editorials. Newspaper stories about a guy running for president out of a van that he shares with his foreign-born wife and two small children. But I have never written an “op/ed,” a special kind of editorial/column hybrid named for its traditional positioning on the “opposite” page from the…
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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 on Hibbing radio today
I did an interview this morning for the Hibbing radio show “The Craig and Kate Affair” which will be rebroadcast today at about 5:30 p.m. on 650 AM WNMT. After the sun sets AM frequencies carry hundreds of miles, reaching many far away places. I don’t know why they ever switched to FM. Darn kids.…
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DFL dustup over sulfide mining on Iron Range
This interesting MinnPost story by Ron Way from yesterday shows the battle lines for an intra-DFL squabble over a certain type of mining that would be used for a new project on the Iron Range. Range DFLers back the mining, saying that a mining area should be the place where experimental mining techniques are used,…
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Iron Range economy: the same, and yet different
Chuck Ramsey had an interesting story in the Sunday Mesabi Daily News. The national economic volatility is having an impact on the stock and commodity prices affecting the big mining companies doing business on the Iron Range. Thus, even though demand and production for our Iron Range minerals are high, we might not be out…
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Say it ain’t so, Doug: Veteran DFLer endorses Coleman
I know, I know. I could have posted much sooner about former DFL Iron Range State Sen. Doug Johnson’s endorsement of GOP Sen. Norm Coleman in the Sunday Mesabi Daily News. I am the “Iron Range” blog, after all. Other blogs from far away places are commenting on this story, including the conservative PowerLine and…
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Anzelc demands response to Iron Range lobbying complaints
(DISCLOSURE: I am Tom Anzelc’s campaign manager and was aware this was coming). This morning, State Rep. Tom Anzelc (DFL-Balsam Township) issued a letter to Iron Range Resources Commissioner Sandy Layman expressing strong concern over the Office of the Legislative Auditor review of Iron Range Resources loans totaling $9.5 million to Excelsior Energy for the…
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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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A gathering storm over a bad idea that got big (UPDATED)
I’ve read and considered the Office of the Legislative Auditor report on its audit of the $9.5 million in Iron Range Resources loans to Excelsior Energy for the Mesaba Energy Project. If you read this blog, you know I think that project is a bad idea for a lot of reasons. This audit revealed some…
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OLA report is out; more to come
The Office of the Legislative Auditor has posted its report on the Iron Range Resources loan to Excelsior Energy for its Mesaba Energy Project. Some interesting findings. I will post details soon. UPDATE: From the AP via the Duluth News-Tribune: “Minn. clean coal project had lax oversight“ Related posts: No related posts.