Tag: minnesota life
member name: Kat Eldred
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December 30, 2006 03:43 PM EST --
We were sitting in the living room when the news anchor announced: Saddam Hussein was put to death. I had heard rumblings that it was “imminent”, “soon to happen”, . . .
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November 18, 2006 03:36 PM EST --
It might seem "corny" to some, but I started this tradition at our family Thanksgiving dinner last year (I say "tradition", but that doesn't mean they'll let me do it again . . .
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November 02, 2006 11:01 AM EST --
MPR's Stephanie Hemphill reports on The Border Patrol and Grand Marais:
Some people in the Grand Marais area are upset about plans to build a new office for the Border Patrol. The Patrol says it . . .
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December 12, 2006 10:43 AM EST --
This is something I would appreciate having access to. I have often lamented about the lack of rail passage in the United States, after having lived in Europe and never needing a car to get . . .
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January 02, 2007 12:33 PM EST --
The thesaurus in my Microsoft Word program defines “enlightened” with the following words: "progressive, free-thinking, liberal, open-minded, and tolerant."
But, if someone . . .
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February 12, 2007 11:47 AM EST --
This is an interesting discussion and seems pretty pertinent to me. A similar debate has been going on about California's use of the Colorado river for years.
Minnesota . . .
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April 17, 2007 05:39 PM EDT --
I couldn’t resist, after I had heard about this short quiz on the Pew Research Center’s Web site last night on NPR’s All Things Considered – I knew I had to take it. . . .
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August 22, 2006 03:45 PM EDT --
MPR's Bob Kelleher, recently reported a potential environmental concern over Excelsior Energy's plan to build a coal digasification plant in northern Minnesota's Iron Range region.
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September 20, 2006 06:07 PM EDT --
A few years ago my husband's sister gave him the book Gig: Americans Talk about Their Jobs by John Bowe, Marisa Bowe, and Sabin Streeter for his birthday. We read aloud, to each other, . . .
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November 08, 2006 11:34 AM EST --
The pendulum of politics always swings in the U.S. It's one thing I have always had faith in. Sometimes it takes a while; but through this mid-term election the "pulse of the . . .
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November 10, 2006 11:16 AM EST --
MPR's Bob Kelleher, reports on Andy Saur's Viking quest:
A Duluth man is on a quest to change the music the Minnesota Vikings play in the Metrodome before kicking the football. Andy Saur says . . .
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November 27, 2006 04:29 PM EST --
I rarely read fiction. So, I find myself strangely attracted to books about human behaviors, demographics, psychology and biographies of human beings who have made significant . . .
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January 09, 2007 10:53 AM EST --
To some the term “cross-cultural training” might smack of 1970’s altruism and I’m not sure it [the term] is even used anymore. Maybe it’s morphed into “diversity . . .
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February 12, 2007 11:19 AM EST --
I don’t care who debates what about global warming, we don’t need to debate the fact that we are dependent on oil or that the exhaust from our cars is damaging to the earth and our bodies. . . .
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March 19, 2007 11:01 AM EDT --
I benefited from universal health care when I was a student living and working in England back in the 1980’s. I walked into the free clinic and within an hour I had been treated . . .
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June 19, 2007 01:12 PM EDT --
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom signed an ordinance on April 20, 2007 that makes the city the first in the nation to outlaw the use of plastic grocery bags.
The ordinance requires large supermarkets . . .
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August 17, 2006 11:05 AM EDT --
MPR's Stephanie Hemphill reports on Building bridges for ATVs
It's that time of year, when we scramble to do all the chores we meant to do earlier in the summer. Paint the porch, edge the sidewalk . . .
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June 19, 2007 12:29 PM EDT --
MPR’s Bob Kelleher reports: Duluth negotiating with Petters to fill vacant airbase
The parent company of Minnesota’s Sun Country Airlines may be the new tenant for the former Northwest Airlines . . .
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August 24, 2006 11:47 AM EDT --
Duluth has some of the best coffee, period. Coffee drinking around the world has been a hobby of mine and, having recently relocated to this area, I am thrilled that downtown Duluth is home . . .
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September 26, 2006 03:33 PM EDT --
MPR's Bob Kelleher reports that the China boom continues on the Range - but for how long?
Town leaders in Eveleth will tell you that business is great. It's not just civic boasting. Three years . . .
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