Minnesota Blog Cabin
GOP’s Zellers: ‘We are all Iron Rangers’
In the long run, the mighty DFL Iron Range/MN-8 coalition simply isn’t preparing for a world in which its environmental and pro-mining wings learn to get along.
Aaron J. Brown
Articles by this author:
Minnesota Blog Cabin
Prettner Solon steps aside; Dayton’s DFL crossroads
Prettner Solon’s announcement leaves Dayton with a decision about who should replace her to run with him at the top of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party ballot.
Minnesota Blog Cabin
500 years is a very long time
Environmental mitigation for the proposed PolyMet mine would last 500 years. What was the world like 500 years ago?
Minnesota Blog Cabin
Anzelc bill would put $10 minimum wage on MN ballot
The bill would pose a Minnesota constitutional amendment question to establish a $10 minimum wage permanently attached to the rate of inflation.
Minnesota Blog Cabin
Veterans Day: Honor what vets did, but also why
Thank a veteran, absolutely. But do not let slip away the reason why they served, and our shared responsibility to continue what really matters.
Minnesota Blog Cabin
IRRRB actions invest in schools, continue quixotic land plans
The Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board gathered last Thursday for a meeting. The headline was a $3.65 million investment in education initiatives and jobs projects.
Minnesota Blog Cabin
Freshman Iron Range lawmaker Rep. Jason Metsa hit on mining claims
The video fails to move the needle on my own conflicted opinions about nonferrous mining projects in northeastern Minnesota. I’m again left with questions, not answers.
Minnesota Blog Cabin
Northern MN artists drop politically charged mining album
An impressive group of northern Minnesota musicians have lent songs to a compilation album called “The Arrowhead Story.”
Minnesota Blog Cabin
Candidates break loose on Minnesota Secretary of State race
Because this is one of the few open statewide races and one that doesn’t cost a ton of campaign cash, we could see a lot of candidates.
Minnesota Blog Cabin
Making the Range more welcoming, because apparently there’s some damn test
The Range is the kind of place where tight urban centers are suspended in a great wilderness, buttressed by gigantic mines and thousands of lakes. Good people here, if you get to know them.