For some, the 35-minute format of my video interviews with MN-8 DFL candidates Rick Nolan, Jeff Anderson and Tarryl Clark might have been too long. If so, consider listening to a distilled version of my conversations with the potential challengers to Rep.
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This is my Sunday column for the Feb. 5, 2012 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. UPDATE: Well, heck, I don't know how it happened but there was an error in the day of the week in the first graph.
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I frequently have a dream that I am one of those women who has everything put together.
I’d be phenomenal at finding bargains and freebies, whipping
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When I saw that the new Dulce de Leche Cheerios were out, I knew we had to try them. My husband is a huge caramel fan, and I have just a little bit o
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Ace Hardware is already thinking spring with a whole new collection of mail-in rebates.
If you’re planning on doing some spring planting or lawn care projects, check out these Scotts mail-in rebates from Ace:
Get $2 back by mail on 1cu ft bags of select Miracle Gro Garden Soils.
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Sometimes I just can’t wrap my head around a piece.
It happens.
Everyone has different methods for overcoming writer’s block.
Friedrich von Schiller kept rotten apples in his desk drawer, claiming the smell improved his writing.
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This week’s column for the Western Itasca Review.
February 2nd, 2012
Quietly Contrary: Key to me Fear
By Mary Eileen Finch
Our townhouse we resided at in Northern Ireland sat in the middle of a row of about twenty houses.
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This week's topic on "Between You and Me" is one of those classic ones: Accidental Recipes. That would be recipes improved by unexpected changes. And of course, they don't have to be good.
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I am going to try and make up for the pathetic News Digest last week -- and my failure to complete it over the weekend -- by giving you extra volume and extra analysis.
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by Travis RyderThursday through Monday Crosslake Winterfest offers a big list of activities through Saturday.Ruby Lips Above The Water is an original play showing at the Wild Rose Theater in downtown Bemidji, 7:30 Thursday through Saturday and Monday, and 2:00 Sunday.Friday, Feb. ...
by Travis RyderThursday through Monday Crosslake Winterfest offers a big list of activities through Saturday.Ruby Lips Above The Water is an original play showing at the Wild Rose Theater in downtown Bemidji, 7:30 Thursday through Saturday and Monday, and 2:00 Sunday.Friday, Feb. ...
Congratulations to Betsy S.! She just won a Progresso Souper You Prize Pack which includes 2 VIP coupons for Progresso Soup and a Biggest Loser DVD
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“Things could be better.” That’s how Marcus Young introduced the impetus for his work as City Artist in Residence in Saint Paul, Minnesota, when we sat down recently.
Things could improve in the public dialogue about how we go about strengthening viability and productivity of our places, as well.
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The concept of building shared space within the public realm is a radical one here in the United States, where automobiles are not only given priority, but completely dominate most public spaces. ... More from Strong Towns Blog
It’s day 21 of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), better known as a cold that can have upper and lower respiratory implications. According to the Department of Health in Minnesota, 23% of Minnesotans are suffering with me today.
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This week’s column for the Western Itasca Review.
I also read this on KAXE 91.7 during “Between You and Me”. You can listen to it HERE.
January 25th, 2012
Quietly Contrary: Mama Can’t Sing
By Mary Eileen Finch
I was having trouble writing my weekly radio essay for KAXE.
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Minnesota children's book and young adult author Mary Casanova is back on KAXE's Realgoodwords this week. Her new American Girl series of books about McKenna are the 2012 Girl of the Year series. Here's how it is described:Ten-year-old McKenna Brooks has always excelled in school and in gymnastics.
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The week ahead will be full of a lot of northern Minnesota political discussion here at the blog. I want to take a moment to share one of my non-political projects.I have been one of the lead organizers of Dylan Days in Bob Dylan's hometown of Hibbing, Minnesota for more than 10 years now.
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The planners of our neighborhood cul de sac mistakenly configured the hydrology of two marshes and two retaining ponds resulting in a 45 inch bounce in the marsh behind our house.
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This is the dead of winter, I am told by the meteorologists in Minnesota. To counteract this "deadness", my mind drifted to May with thoughts of purple coneflowers, budding alders and lots of dirt and mud.
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