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After the flood
It will be sometime before we have a full picture of the damage caused by the Duluth-Superior flood, but a remarkable number of businesses in the affected area are reopening today. The Duluth News-Tribune, which has done a fantastic job with its coverage, has an update. The Miller Hill Mall is still down, but expects…
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Loose seal
This is the widely distributed Ellie Burcar photo of the seal that has become the emblem of the 2012 Duluth-Superior flood. As always, the eyes tell the story. The zaniness of the zoo escape story has distracted from the utter devastation across Duluth. Amazingly, no human lives have been lost. Related posts: No related posts.
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Animals escape, drown at Duluth zoo; flood prompts State of Emergency
The flooding in Duluth brings a state of emergency. The North Shore has lost 911 and most phone service. Sinkholes all over Duluth. Some of the Lake Superior Zoo’s barnyard animals drowned while two seals escaped along with the polar bear, which was subdued with a dart. One of the seals started a Twitter account…
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Essar on track for 2013 start on the Range
The big grinding mills have arrived at Essar Steel Minnesota’s taconite plant north of Nashwauk. The photo here shows one being unloaded at the Port of Duluth Tuesday. These mills are a distinct feature of taconite plants, constantly rotating 24 hours a day crushing rock down to fine powder for concentration into iron-rich taconite pellets.…
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Floods wash out Duluth, much of northern region
Northern Minnesota and Wisconsin have seen some historic flooding in the past 12 hours, mostly due to flash floods and overwhelmed storm sewers from an unrelenting rain which continues at this hour. No travel is advised in Duluth, Superior, the North Shore and in other parts of the region. The city of Duluth is all…
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COLUMN: Celebrating modern dadhood this Father’s Day
This is my Sunday column for the June 17, 2012 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. Happy Father’s Day! Celebrating modern dadhood this Father’s DayBy Aaron J. Brown It’s Father’s Day today, or as I like to call it: ME DAY. Then again, I like to think of every day as ME DAY, so the…
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Tune to Great Northern Radio Show at 5p: http://www.kaxe.org
You can hear the Great Northern Radio Show today at 5 p.m., broadcasting live 5-7 p.m. from the John Chalberg Theatre at Central Lakes College in Brainerd. I am proud to write, produce and host this show with a large cast of very talented people. Please give it a listen. In Grand Rapids, the Iron…
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Join us Saturday in Brainerd for the Great Northern Radio Show
Today we pack up the overnight bag and trek from the Mesabi Range to the Cuyuna Range, a drive much more common to my family in the 1950s but one seldom taken nowadays. My dad spent some time in Crosby as a kid as his dad and grandpa mined the last underground iron ore there.…
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Cravaack to hold press event about Polymet Friday
This appears to be a hot ticket. Rep. Chip Cravaack (R-MN8) will hold a press event Friday at 10 a.m. at the MPCA office in Duluth to talk about the Polymet nonferrous mining project in northeastern Minnesota. Washington, D.C. – On Friday, U.S. Representative Chip Cravaack (MN) will host the quarterly roundtable discussion on the…
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Great Northern Radio Show throws down the LEGO gauntlet
The Great Northern Radio Show returns to the airwaves this Saturday, 5-7 p.m., live from the John Chalberg Theatre at Central Lakes College in Brainerd, Minnesota. You can still reserve free tickets with 91.7 KAXE at 800/662-5799. Meantime, hope you enjoy our promotional video, made possible by Spencer Olson Films. Spencer Olson and his brother…
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IRRRB approves $31.2 million as mining revenue fully recovers
The IRRRB approved a $31.2 million budget for the upcoming fiscal year at its meeting this morning. The funds will cover many different projects around the Iron Range, among them a notable new effort to restore decaying housing stock in the old towns of the Range. This is an increasing economic and aesthetic problem in…
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Twin Metals doubles mineral estimate near Ely
Twin Metals is doubling their estimate of available copper-nickel minerals in the deposit they hope to mine near Ely. The geologists I talk to seem to agree, politics aside, there is a lot of copper and other minerals down there. Related posts: No related posts.
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Hibbing Taconite mine tours open summer Thursdays
The Minnesota Discovery Center will once again be coordinating tours of Hibbing Taconite during the summer. Anyone making a trip up to the Iron Range who hasn’t seen a modern taconite operation should check this out. CHISHOLM, MN, JUNE 5, 2012 – Minnesota Discovery Center, Hibbing Taconite and Shubat Transportation are teaming up again this…
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Mesaba Park holds midsummer event June 22-23
One of the quirky throwbacks to the Iron Range’s labor tradition is the Mesaba Co-op Park on the edge of Hibbing. It is a cooperative recreational park where labor organizers and early socialists once met, sometimes under the watchful eye of labor spies and the FBI. Built largely by the Finns who settled the Cherry…
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Colangelo looks to reverse GOP fortunes on the eastern Range
One of the interesting legislative races to watch this year is the new 6B, where three DFLers and two GOPers are running to succeed retiring State Rep. Tom Rukavina (DFL-Pike Township). Though the district partisan index continues to favor the DFL, where Lorrie Janatopoulos, Jason Metsa and Dave Meyer are running in a very competitive…