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A big day of mining news on the Range?
There will be some news rumblings on the Iron Range today. The IRRRB meeting at 9 this morning isn’t expected to generate many sparks. Nevertheless, like a pistol in a Chekhov play, you shouldn’t be surprised if it goes off at some point. The meeting I’ll be waiting to hear about will be the gathering…
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Alaska Sen. Begich to join Sen. Klobuchar on the Range
Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska) will be on the Iron Range Friday night to appear at a fundraiser for Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota). This is Begich’s first public trip to the Range since he was elected to the Senate from his home state. He is the nephew of former State Rep. and current IRRRB board member…
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Pan fish restrictions proposed for some northern Minnesota lakes
Pan fish restrictions in Itasca County? Five crappie bag limit? That’s just great, DNR. The good news is that the government will fall long before these proposed restrictions take effect. So we’ve got that going for us. I highly doubt the warlords will enforce these rules. Long live Kronos! Related posts: No related posts.
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The old Cherry School is gone
I attended Cherry High School, graduating in 1998. Cherry is a township at the edge of Hibbing’s rural eastern borders on the Iron Range of northern Minnesota. On Tuesday the old part of the school, built in 1928, was torn down to make way for a major renovation. I’ve written more on the topic to…
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B’nai Abraham Center to hold benefit jazz concert on the Range
A cultural center in the last remaining synagogue on the Iron Range will hold a benefit concert Thursday night featuring jazz singer Connie Evingson, a Hibbing native, and a host of other Minnesota jazz musicians including the Miltich boys from my west Range township. The B’nai Abraham Museum and Cultural Center in Virginia stands a…
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Spirit of Iron Range captured in upcoming photo exhibit
The photographer Richard Colburn will be hosting a series of exhibits on the Iron Range over the next few months. Colburn’s primary subject has been the people and places of the upper Midwest. He’s spent some time on the Iron Range over several years and will be displaying his work at these exhibits. Lyric Center…
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Promising new blog from Harvard econ major with Range roots
I’ve got to give a plug to Tony Sterle over at “A Little Bit of Liberal.” Tony will soon graduate with an economics degree from Harvard (the actual one, not the nickname for the community college where I work). Tony’s point of view is that of a pragmatic liberal advancing reasoned, researched ideas about modern…
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Summer tours of active taconite mine are back
If you’ve never seen an active taconite mining operation on northern Minnesota’s Iron Range, you can this summer. MDC, Hibbing Taconite to provide summer mine tours CHISHOLM, Minn. – Minnesota Discovery Center, Hibbing Taconite and Shubat Transportation have once again teamed up to provide a bus tour of Hibbing Taconite to the public. The tours,…
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COLUMN: Drive youth home, not away
This is my weekly column for the Sunday, June 12, 2011 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. Drive youth home, not awayBy Aaron J. Brown “If you’re going to write in the paper, put my name in there and say that I want a car.” That would be Doug, one of my boys about to…
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Entrepreneurship and the future of places like the Iron Range
This post from Dr. Steve Wyckoff of the education reform blog “What’s Become Clear” explores the notion of teaching entrepreneurship to high school students as a form of economic development. I have to say, upon reading his ideas, there is merit here that could be applied to the Iron Range. So much money is spent…
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Judas was from the Iron Range
This is the film Professor David Leaver of Manchester Metropolitan University presented at Dylan Days 2011 in Hibbing, Minnesota. It explores some of Dylan’s past (including his northern Minnesota roots) and how his path intersected with one important place, the Manchester Free Trade Hall. Related posts: No related posts.
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Brown on the Air: LUNCH!
Are you enjoying your lunch right now? This year the book “Minnesota Lunch: From Pasties to Bahn Mi” by James Norton came out. In another of my Forrest Gump moments, I was interviewed for this book, which combines elements of a traditional cookbook with cultural narrative of the meaning of the food in question. Jim…
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The Lazarus Option in MN-8
Well-known political commentator Stu Rothenberg wrote a fascinating profile of former U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan for Roll Call. Nolan is considering a monumental political comeback in Minnesota’s 8th Congressional District. I mean, just read it, if only for the picture which shows Nolan looking like all of your dad’s friends when you were 6 years…
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Art in the Park brings youth orchestra to big Range venue
The Minnesota Discovery Center in Chisholm announces its evening “Art in the Park” event for tonight. June 9 Art in the Park features Crescendo Youth Orchestra Crescendo Youth Orchestra will perform at 6 p.m. on Thursday, June 9, for Minnesota Discovery Center’s Art in the Park series. The Orchestra’s performance is part of a five-day…
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The business of art on the Iron Range
Here at the blog I call for harnessing creativity for the economy of the future. Musician, CPA and friend of this blog Carolyn Flaschberger will lead a workshop tomorrow on the art of keeping good record for your business as an artist at the Lyric Center for the Arts First Stage in Virginia, Minnesota. From…