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Minnesota Blog Cabin

First MN-8 debate reaction: Fire and ice

Minnesota Brown
By Aaron Brown | 10/10/12

The debate featured two aggressive but generally respectful candidates and absolutely none of the audience interference that occurred two years ago.

Tom Rukavina
Minnesota Blog Cabin

Rukavina retires, marking end of an Iron Range era

Minnesota Brown
By Aaron Brown | 05/11/12

The passionate, populist, often enigmatic Iron Range state Rep. Tom Rukavina has announced his retirement.

Minnesota Blog Cabin

Anderson touts mining, commits to MN-8 DFL primary

Minnesota Brown
By Aaron Brown | 03/30/12

Former Duluth city council member Jeff Anderson plans to skip the DFL endorsement process.

Minnesota Blog Cabin

MN-8 DFLers on Almanac portend delicate chess match

Minnesota Brown
By Aaron Brown | 03/13/12

Last Friday night the DFL candidates seeking to run against U.S. Rep. Chip Cravaack (R-MN8) appeared on TPT's Almanac, the vaunted statewide public TV news magazine show.

Minnesota Blog Cabin

Gogebic Taconite cancels northern Wisconsin project

Minnesota Brown
By Aaron Brown | 03/08/12

Citing dissatisfaction with a bill that would loosen environmental permitting, officials for Gogebic Taconite announced the cancellation of their plans to mine taconite near Ashland, Wisconsin.

Redistricting Map: Iron Range
Minnesota Blog Cabin

Minnesota Brown: The Range survives redistricting, but western battle looms

By Aaron Brown | 02/22/12

Here in northern Minnesota, I am simply amazed at how well the map protected Iron Range incumbents.

Minnesota Blog Cabin

Minnesota Brown: Upcoming Duluth election not too hard, not too soft

By Aaron Brown | 11/07/11
Working media in northern Minnesota means operating in the sphere of the Duluth TV market. Duluth, the largest northern Minnesota city, is the seat of the state's largest geographic county, St. Louis.
Minnesota Blog Cabin

Minnesota Brown: MN-8 seems destined for lively DFL primary

By Aaron Brown | 09/23/11
The 2012 election in Minnesota's Eighth Congressional district could become the more significant contest in the region's political decade. The conservative swing seen in the 2010 election of Rep.
Minnesota Blog Cabin

Minnesota Brown: Range boondoggle now poses test of character, leadership

By Aaron Brown | 08/31/11
The implications of Peter Passi's Duluth News Tribune groundbreaking investigation into the squandering of $41 million in public money by Excelsior Energy on the Iron Range continue to unfold.
Minnesota Blog Cabin

Minnesota Brown: Silent Cal at the Hull Rust Mine

By Aaron Brown | 08/03/11
On this date in 1923, Warren Harding, an amiable, if corruptible president who sometimes questioned his own abilities to govern, died of a heart attack in San Francisco.