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Range community journalism club to meet tonight
For those interested, a meeting of the Iron Range Community Journalism Club will be held tonight: August topics: Tips and technologies for conducting interviews. Scott Hall of 91.7 KAXE community radio will provide interviewing tips. Shelly Ceglar, Mountain Iron-Buhl technology and media specialist,will provide information on interviewing technologies and uploadinginterview files (audio/video) to the Web.…
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Education lawmakers to converge on the Range Tuesday for crucial hearing
This is a reminder that the Minnesota House of Representatives committees on K-12 finance and policy will be holding a session to discuss the state of education at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 26 in the Nashwauk-Keewatin High School gym. Local State Rep. Tom Anzelc (DFL-Balsam Township) is on the committee and helped organize the…
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Sportsmen for the Issues That Matter
The more things change the more they stay the same. As with the past several elections, the GOP has determined that its best move is to use “Sportsmen” as their primary outreach group on the Iron Range. (The surprisingly balanced story is in Sunday’s Mesabi Daily News). I get the political strategy. Fleck off working…
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McCain’s website timeline includes Civil War, pictures of old timey biplanes
I get the general idea behind what John McCain is trying to do on the “time line” portion of his website. It juxtaposes his life history with U.S. history to show how “American” his story is. But is it a good idea to have the thing scroll back to 1840? I mean, doesn’t that just…
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The GOP war against popularity
This Michael Kinsley column (“Convicted of Charisma”) in today’s Washington Post discusses the fact that John McCain and the Republicans are, thus far effectively, using Barack Obama’s popularity and ability to communicate against him. How dare he be liked? How dare he attract people to attend his events in large numbers? Most Americans can’t do…
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It’s Biden Time
I should have put the cellphone on the night stand, but we’ve all got our text messages now and have seen that Joe Biden is Barack Obama’s running mate. A long time ago, when I was analyzing the primary candidates from an “Iron Range” perspective, I commented that Joe Biden seemed like a guy who…
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Cornival is here
For a guy who loves puns, I can’t go wrong with today’s Cornival at the Lawron Presbyterian Church along Scenic Highway 7 in Itasca County. They’ve got silent auctions, flea markets, giant gorilla bouncy things for the kids, and … corn. Oh, lordy, the corn. As you walk up from the parking lot you see…
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Women’s leadership initiative continues on the Range
Earlier in the year, a Go Run Iron Range conference was held to gather and encourage women interested in political leadership and gave them basic training on how to conduct local and broader campaigns. The effort was an extension of the White House Project. Efforts to expand female leadership on the Iron Range continue and…
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Mud, destruction, fun at Embarrass Fair
The Embarrass Fair starts today. I’m posting this in honor of Roland Fowler, the unofficial spokesman for the town, who manages to sneak references to the fair every time he is interviewed about Embarrass being the coldest place in the Lower 48 in the national media each winter. He grabbed about 30 seconds of CNN…
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MN Indy posts great analysis of Obama’s challenges up north
Paul Demko at the Minnesota Independent posted an excellent story about the challenges facing Barack Obama in Pine County. Pine County is considered “central Minnesota,” but is right on the border of Carlton County which is considered “northern Minnesota.” While always more conservative than Duluth and the Iron Range, it’s hard not to notice the…
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The dump factor
I wasn’t going to join the pulsing mass of speculation about the VP picks, but I’ll add this observation. According to this AP report (all the way at the bottom), Joe Biden takes his own stuff to the dump. I drive my own garbage to the dump. I like this. Related posts: No related posts.
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Workshopping
Today I am presenting at a workshop for Iron Range community colleges on the topic of blogging. I’ll use this as a general reminder that just 10 years ago I was learning what the Internet was for the first time. What a world, what a world! Related posts: No related posts.
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Late to the party; my take on Madia
It’s Ashwin Madia blog day on Minnesota’s progressive blogs and I apologize that I am posting so late. I guess someone has to take the night shift. Ashwin Madia is a candidate for Minnesota’s Third Congressional District. He is the Democrat facing off against Republican Eric Paulsen for an open seat being vacated by retiring…
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See the 7B fab five in action on the tubes
An alert reader has sent me this You Tube clip link for a recent House 7B forum at Duluth’s Lincoln Park school. The forum features all five DFL candidates for the seat being vacated by Rep. Mike Jaros (DFL-Duluth). If you have more You Tube or other links showing events like this, post them in…
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Campaigns traverse Iron Range; more to come
Two statewide campaign updates from the Iron Range: Obama’s campaign opened the first of two Iron Range headquarters. As many as 100 people were there for at least part of the ceremonies, according to the Mesabi Daily News. The accounts I’ve heard indicates that the event went well. Norm Coleman made a campaign swing through…