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Brown on the Air: Personality Quirks
My weekly radio essay for Saturday’s episode of “Between You and Me” on 91.7 KAXE will focus on personality quirks. The call-in and music show will explore some of the interesting quirks of our northern Minnesota friends, family members and neighbors. Tune in between 10 a.m. and noon on 91.7 FM and streaming online at…
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Fire damages landmark Iron Range pizza joint
Perhaps not big news to everyone, but the original Sammy’s Pizza in Hibbing was damaged by fire yesterday. (Well, actually the original was in Keewatin before moving to a different location in Hibbing and then to this spot, but that’s just the sort of local local history tedium that you don’t need). The Hibbing Daily…
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Update: Clooney, Zellweger to interact with Northlanders
The Star Tribune reports on Monday’s George Clooney/Renee Zellweger visit to Duluth. We now learn that common folk without media passes can meet the famous people at 1 p.m. at the entrance to the Depot. We also learn that the pair’s movie, “Leatherheads,” based on the real 1920s pro football team in Duluth called the…
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Dude says Moses was on drugs
I have to admit, I’ve never been part of organized religion. But seeing that one researcher believes Moses might have been on drugs when he saw the burning bush and received the Ten Commandments does leave me feeling a bit empty. If the basis of most of the world’s major religions is going to be…
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Quick, before the malaise breaks through the dam
The good news (if you’re an Obama supporter and/or sick of primary election news coverage): The media, at least the pieces I saw on “Good Morning America” and in the New York Times today, are finally starting to openly question how Hillary Clinton could win the Democratic nomination at this point. The likelihood that Barack…
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Iron Range rally to mark five years of misguided war
It’s been five years at war. As they say, I’m sure not against the soldiers, but this war has been the emblem of bad foreign policy from the start. For those interested: Iron Range Rally to End the War Who: Iron Range residents, members of MoveOn.orgWhere: Hwy. 53 & 12th Ave. S. (by Kmart &…
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Aftermath of ‘the speech’
Daily Kos has a good roundup of the reviews of yesterday’s Barack Obama speech. First Read also has some good reactions. There are all overtly positive in their appraisal of the speech, but I’ll take on the task of looking at this from another point of view. The real question here is whether the American…
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OMG! George Clooney, Renee Zellweger coming to Duluth!
At the top of the Duluth News-Tribune on this important news day is the BIGGEST STORY OF ALL TIME. George Clooney is coming to Duluth. WITH RENEE ZELLWEGER. AT THE SAME TIME! Oh Jesus, my heart. My heart is beating SO FAST right now. Rumors have been swirling for awhile that George Clooney might be…
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Obama delivers unprecedented speech today
Barack Obama delivered his much-anticipated speech on race issues in America and how they have become a divisive factor in this presidential campaign. He addressed the matter of his controversial former pastor, but did much more than that. Read the text of Obama’s speech today from the Obama website. This also includes a video link.…
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The Iron Range’s global connection
Though not providing any new information, regional editor Charles Ramsey has an informative piece in today’s Mesabi Daily News explaining how the Iron Range is plugged into the global economy. A good refresher or backgrounder for those unfamiliar with Iron Range current events. PS: Perhaps you’ve noticed, but you need to create an account if…
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Dylan Days announces schedule for May 22-25, 2008
If you didn’t know, I am the co-chair and volunteer media coordinator for Dylan Days in Hibbing — a celebration of the Iron Range’s most famous son, Bob Dylan, and the arts community of the region. We’ve recently posted our schedule for the 2008 event which runs May 22-25 (perhaps you caught my blatant sales…
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Damning comments about Mesaba boondoggle covered up; project faces new criticism from key federal agencies
The federal Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued comments last month in the matter of Excelsior Energy’s Mesaba Energy Project, a coal-gas power plant proposed for the Iron Range. I’ve declared this project a boondoggle that will produce neither electricity nor jobs before its “owners” walk away with bags of…
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Range bar cited for trying smoking ban theatre loophole
An excerpt from the story in today’s Duluth News-Tribune: Babbitt bar gets smoking citation for “Gunsmoke Monologues”Will AshenmacherDuluth News Tribune – 03/15/2008 What may have been the first ticket issued in connection with a bar hosting a “theater night” to get around the statewide smoking ban is now hanging behind the bar in a Babbitt…
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I am a cooking fraud (the column)
This is my weekly column for Sunday, March 16, 2008 published in the Hibbing Daily Tribune. I archive my columns at my writing page. I am a cooking fraud (and almost got away with it)By Aaron J. Brown If you missed it, I recently appeared on “WDSE Cooks” on Channel 8, northern Minnesota’s public television…
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Franken sweeps Iron Range
I bring news from the Iron Range. DFL county unit conventions were held for Senate District 5 and Itasca County today in Hibbing and Nashwauk, respectively. Both use walking subcaucuses to elect delegates to the 8th Congressional District and State DFL conventions. Both were essentially proxy fights between Al Franken and Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer for the…