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Marty interview coming Tuesday
I’ll be posting my interview and campaign analysis for DFL gubernatorial candidate John Marty at noon on Tuesday. I interviewed Sen. Marty last Wednesday but my crazy life has slowed the writing of the story. And then it dawned on me that I wasn’t being paid for any of this. Anyway, my conversation with Marty…
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A soulful take on HCC Theater
Mesabi Misadventures has a great take on the downsizing of the Hibbing Community College Theater program, offering the much needed perspective of someone from the community who has enjoyed the fantastic work done on the HCC stage these last few years. It’s so easy for these discussions to become personal when administrators, staff and students…
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All Hail Greenland!
Hey, I missed this. Apparently today Greenland begins limited self-governance, having been granted partial independence from Denmark. Find out more. Check out their cool new flag. Call the flag store, City of Chisholm. (h/t TYWKIWDBI) Related posts: No related posts.
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COLUMN: The good life isn’t always cute
This is my column for today’s edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. It would appear that a major family announcement for the Gosselins is slated for Monday, so this ended up being pretty topical. The good life isn’t always cuteBy Aaron J. Brown Our twin boys are hitting age 2 soon and one thing is…
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Share and share alike
The moves have been made and N-K and Greenway schools will be sharing a superintendent next year. Both of these Iron Range districts face massive long term debt and budget issues and this is just one part of what the ultimate solution might look like. Related posts: No related posts.
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Better off Red
The Mesaba Co-op Park near Cherry holds its 80th annual Midsummer Festival starting tonight and running through this weekend. Related posts: No related posts.
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Brown on the Air: SWIMMING
My weekly essay on KAXE’s Saturday morning call-in and music show “Between You and Me” will deal with the program’s rotating topic of “swimming.” Tune in between 10 a.m. and noon for one of northern Minnesota’s most interesting cultural phenomena. My piece, which usually airs between 10:15 and 10:45, will focus on my inability to…
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MinnPost covers Iron Range theater rally
Catherine Conlan of MinnPost offers this piece exploring the downsizing of the Hibbing Community College theater program. The story is a fair analysis of the factors at play here. This is the winnowing of Minnesota culture, especially greater Minnesota culture, caused by the state budget situation. I work at HCC (to repeat, my blog is…
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The trouble with criminals
Lots of madcap antics on the East Range in today’s Mesabi Daily News. A police car drove through the newspaper’s lawn in pursuit of a suspect. Meantime, in Aurora, a reckless driver crashed his truck (on purpose) into a gas pump at the Lucky Seven. These things always happen in threes. I wonder what’s next.…
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State broadband task force meeting in Grand Rapids today
Minnesota’s Ultra High Speed Broadband Task Force is meeting in Grand Rapids today for a public forum about rural high speed internet. Stop by the Sawmill from 3-5 to share your thoughts. And, for the record, “Ultra High Speed Broadband Task Force” is the coolest committee name I’ve seen in awhile. Related posts: No related…
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Brown on the Air (Live!): NEW MEDIA
This (Thursday) morning I’ll be appearing on a special panel discussion on the 91.7 KAXE Morning Show to discuss new media, journalism and bias in 21st century reporting. I’ll be representing bias. Ha Ha! Just kidding! (sort of) Seriously though, northern Minnesota business reporter (and former newspaper editor colleague of mine) Beth Bily will be…
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Quaint election of bygone days to be decided
Word is that Thursday is going to be “Official Minnesota Supreme Court Decision Day” for our state’s long enduring U.S. Senate recount battle. I have an inside source who tells me the winner of our Senate seat will be … Amelia Earhart. NOOOOOOO! OK, I still haven’t decided if that’s funny, but Politics and Minnesota…
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Unallotment: a product of a less friendly Minnesota that wants to be average
Unallotment has come. Yesterday, in a fiery press conference Gov. Tim Pawlenty announced his unilateral solution to the budget debate he was unwilling to negotiate during the legislative session. Yay, executive power! Good luck in ’12, bub. But the outcome is devastating and the governor and his allies are unwilling to admit the role they’ve…
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New GOP chair is from Iron Range
It bears mentioning that Tony Sutton, the new Minnesota Republican Party chair, is originally from Hibbing, right in the heart of the Iron Range DFL bastion. The Hibbing Daily Tribune reminded me of this today. I’m embarrassed I didn’t recall that detail on my own. Though the Iron Range reliably produces 2-1 DFL majorities, it’s…
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Marty and Gaertner interviews on the way
In the next week I’ll be featuring more interviews with DFL Minnesota gubernatorial candidates. Today I’ll be talking to State Sen. John Marty. That interview synopsis and analysis will be posted in a few days. In the next week or so I hope to be in touch with Susan Gaertner. I’ve done four interviews already…