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7B DFL PRIMARY FOCUS: Roger Reinert
MinnesotaBrown is running a series of posts this week featuring the DFL candidates for Duluth’s House District 7B in their own words. The winner of the Sept. 9 DFL primary will face Republican Allan Kehr and Independence Party candidate Jay Cole, who do not face primary opposition. Tuesday, we featured Brandon Clokey. Wednesday featured John…
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Culture wars
After watching Wednesday night’s Republican convention, I realize that our disagreements in this country are much more over personality and culture than they are political. Sure, there are plenty of political disagreements. But Sarah Palin’s selection as John McCain’s VP, her speech and the speeches that led up to it were not overt arguments for…
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7B weekend battle begins for DFL primary candidates
The series of candidate profiles continues, but there are several developments in House District 7B tonight that continue to suggest that the frontrunners in the race are Roger Reinert and Marsh Stenersen. First of all, candidate John Derbis told me tonight that he will be supporting Marsh Stenersen in the primary. He’ll announce this tomorrow…
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7B DFL PRIMARY FOCUS: Daniel Maryland
MinnesotaBrown is running a series of posts this week featuring the DFL candidates for Duluth’s House District 7B in their own words. The winner of the Sept. 9 DFL primary will face Republican Allan Kehr and Independence Party candidate Jay Cole, who do not face primary opposition. Yesterday, we featured Brandon Clokey. Today, with no…
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7B DFL PRIMARY FOCUS: John Derbis
MinnesotaBrown is running a series of posts this week featuring the DFL candidates for Duluth’s House District 7B in their own words. The winner of the Sept. 9 DFL primary will face Republican Allan Kehr and Independence Party candidate Jay Cole, who do not face primary opposition. Yesterday, we featured Brandon Clokey. Today, continuing in…
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Ventura hints at 2012 run during Ron Paul event
Oh, yes. former Gov. Jesse Ventura (I-MN) may have seized the mantle of “Ron Paul of 2012” Tuesday. By that time, young voters who remember his wrestling days will be over 30. I bet they’ll still have the action figures, though. Related posts: No related posts.
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GOP up north: yesterday and tomorrow
Chuck Frederick, a columnist at the Duluth News-Tribune, wrote a fine historical piece Tuesday explaining the historical role the Republican Party has played in Northern Minnesota and Duluth, now considered a Democratic stronghold. Though not mentioned in the piece, the Iron Range was also a Republican stronghold in the pre-FDR years. All of this changed…
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7B DFL PRIMARY FOCUS: Brandon Clokey
MinnesotaBrown is running a series of posts this week featuring the DFL candidates for Duluth’s House District 7B in their own words. The winner of the Sept. 9 DFL primary will face Republican Allan Kehr and Independence Party candidate Jay Cole, who do not face primary opposition. Today, beginning in alphabetical order, is Brandon Clokey.…
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Heffernan is back, with book and blog
Last June I wrote about the unfortunate separation between the Duluth News Tribune and its longtime columnist Jim Heffernan, who had previously worked for decades in the DNT’s newsroom. We have not heard the end of Mr. Heffernan. In fact, he’ll be joining me in the northern Minnesota blogsphere and writing a monthly column for…
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Movie voiceover guy was from Duluth
You may have seen on the cable or broadcast news that Don LaFontaine, the “King of Voiceovers,” passed away Monday at age 68. This is the guy who, famous in many works of satire, starts movie trailer voiceovers with the phrase “In a world …” For instance: “In a world, where terror is the law…
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Beware the dark hearted bloviators
Frank Rich is among the best in the New York Times stable of columnists. Sure, I tend to agree with him more often than others, but I also think he makes the most reasoned appeals. In his column today, (“Obama outwits the bloviators“) Rich tears apart the big media “bloviators” that I and most political…
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Labor Day FOR REAL on the Iron Range
Every year writers make earnest efforts to pay homage to the labor movement and workers’ rights on Labor Day. Some have more success than others. This year, Labor Day means something on the Iron Range. With a contract deadline looming at three Iron Range mines, strike preparations are being made in Hibbing, Eveleth and Virginia.…
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Wendell Anderson to appear at Esko event
I almost forgot. I got an e-mail earlier in the week about the Carlton County DFL “fun-raiser” at “Larry the Laborers” house of 97 E. Palkie Road in Esko. It runs 1-5 p.m. today with music and food. Former Gov. Wendell Anderson, founder of the “Minnesota Miracle” education system and the only living DFL governor,…
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It’s good to have Alaska friends
I’ll be getting my Alaska perspective on this whole Palin situation from my friends the Rudstroms in Alaska. We aren’t on the same page, politically, but they’d be the first to say Alaska is an entirely different political universe. I think we’ll be learning more about that universe in the national media as we go…
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Range bar, DFLers featured on Obama’s national site
While the blogosphere pulsed with speculation and gossip about John McCain’s gimmicky VP pick Friday, Barack Obama’s national campaign blog sported this image from the Iron Range’s most iconic bar at the top. I declare that the first campaign to show the inside of Tom and Jerry’s on its national website will win the Range.…