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Brown on the Air: HUNTING!
The Saturday morning radio call-in and music sensation “Between You and Me” takes to 91.7 KAXE this week with the topic of hunting. Not just any hunting, but the vast array of small game and miscellaneous hunting seasons that begin this weekend. Scott Hall guest hosts the show from 10 a.m. to noon. My regular…
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Brown on the Air: RANGE NEWS 9/17/09
Though blogging has been slow lately (I have two big writing projects in the works) I have made some comments on recent good news in the Iron Range mining economy and will be sharing more of that analysis on the radio tomorrow. You can hear me on the KAXE Morning Show with Scott Hall at…
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KeeTac is back
Here’s good news from the Iron Range. U.S. Steel’s Keewatin Taconite will resume production after nearly a year of an indefinite shutdown. Of northern Minnesota’s six taconite mining operations, KeeTac was the one that worried many insiders. Now five of six plants will be operating nearly at capacity within a few weeks. Hibbing Taconite is…
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COLUMN: "The toys indicator"
This is my column for the Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. The toys indicatorBy Aaron J. Brown So some of the mines, not all of the mines (including none of the mines closest to Hibbing) are back to work here on northern Minnesota’s Iron Range. We are supposed to feel…
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Brown on the Air: CHICKENS!
This week’s topic on “Between You and Me” is chickens. I join the fray and tell a tragic story about a misguided rooster that will leave you yukking because chickens are hilarious even when terrible things happen to them. All that and more on Saturday morning’s edition of “Between You and Me,” the unique call-in…
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COLUMN: ‘Pull the wagon forever’
This is my weekly column for the Sunday, Sept. 6 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. Pull the wagon foreverBy Aaron J. Brown When orbiting the moon, I’m told, one must mind the dark side. On the dark side of the moon there is no light, no radio contact with earth and a conceptual progressive…
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Brown on the Air: MEMORIZED POETRY
My contribution to this week’s edition of 91.7 KAXE‘s “Between You and Me” program this Saturday morning joins the show’s topic of “Memorized Poetry.” The theme sounds vague, but you’ll get it when you hear it. We all had to memorize things when we were growing up. Some of us might still remember the tidbits…
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COLUMN: "The Beatles behind us"
This is my weekly column for the Sunday, Aug. 30, 2009 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. A version of this piece ran Aug. 29 on KAXE’s “Between You and Me.” The Beatles behind usBy Aaron J. Brown On Sept. 9, 2009, the complete audio catalogue of The Beatles will be re-released with digitally re-mastered…
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Brown on the Air: THE BEATLES!
My regular contribution to 91.7 KAXE‘s Saturday morning program “Between You and Me” will join in this week’s topic of The Beatles. Fab Four fans Maggie Montgomery and Jennifer Poenix will be guest hosting the program while host/producer Heidi Holtan continues to hunt bears in the final frontier. My piece talks about the Beatles, sure,…
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COLUMN: ‘Remember the good new days’
This was my weekly column for the Sunday, Aug. 23, 2009 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. You might also hear a version of this piece on a future edition of KAXE’s “Between You and Me.” Remember the good new daysBy Aaron J. Brown I’m still not old, but “young” is now a highly contextual…
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A quick post before the leaves turn colors
It’s been about a month of reduced blogging here at MinnesotaBrown and I thought I’d give you a little update. First of all, yes, I will be bringing comments back when I resume daily blogging but I’ve temporarily closed comments until I have the time to deal with them. If you have a comment please…
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Brown on the Air: BWCA!
As seems to be my failing of late, I once again forgot to promote my weekly contribution to KAXE’s “Between You and Me” program which aired this morning on the independent northern Minnesota public station. This week’s topic was a discussion of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area and my whatsit was actually one of my…
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Margaret Anderson Kelliher: the MinnesotaBrown interview
The governor interview train keeps on a’ rollin’ today with a post featuring Minnesota Speaker of the House Margaret Anderson Kelliher. The interview took on special meaning as it happened the day before Kelliher filed paperwork last week to run for governor in 2010, moving herself into the field of active candidates. My candidate series…
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COLUMN: ‘Blinded by berries’
This is my weekly column for the Sunday, Aug. 16, 2009 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. A version of this piece ran on an edition of KAXE’s “Between You and Me” program. Blinded by berriesBy Aaron J. Brown So I’ve been picking raspberries lately. I moved out to the country a few years ago…
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Brown on the Air: BERRIES!
My contribution to 91.7 KAXE‘s Saturday morning call-in and music program “Between You and Me” joins in the weekly topic of “berries.” The last few weeks have been a bountiful time of wild berry picking in northern Minnesota, or at least for certain berries. But berry picking is not as cut and dry as you…