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This island crew really cleans up 
Robin Washington column: Our goal was to hit a few sites trashed by visitors on the uninhabited island given to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources by the Nature Conservancy in 2011, a few years after having been slated for development as a golf course and condominium resort.
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Robin Washington: If you participate in a 401(k) plan that even remotely touches the stock market, be sure to tell the administrator where you want your pork bellies delivered.
RELATED CONTENTThat yarmulke says Duluth all over it
Robin Washington column: For four days each May, I wear a yarmulke pretty much continuously. Not because it’s any Jewish holiday (they tend to run one, two or eight days) but because I’m celebrating my identity among others doing the same.
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ROBIN WASHINGTON: One year, I got the easy assignment. As long as nobody seriously got hurt — and you sincerely hoped not, for their sake and yours — the medical tent was one-stop shopping for compelling stories. Their bodies would be shivering, wrapped in space blankets, testifying to human endurance. Their faces beamed personal achievement.
RELATED CONTENTA snow news day — and a little bit of Sylvia Plath
Robin Washington column: I had been looking forward to cavorting with the English majors, if for no other reason than to hear what they thought about being the butt of a Garrison Keillor routine.
RELATED CONTENTAs a matter of record, Carlson is front-page news
Robin Washington column: Remember this item in the News Tribune? “Duluth police raided two downtown shops Tuesday, filling a truck, a van and a car with suspected drug paraphernalia. … Police also seized an illegal military assault rifle from the Last Place on Earth,” a police spokesman said.
The Rose Man remembered
ROBIN WASHINGTON: I don’t think he knew it, but Kevin Ferris was my fashion guru.
RELATED CONTENTHave a roadkill recipe to share? Montana might just bite …
Robin Washington column: I’m hardly the most religious person in the world, but I do keep kosher — especially during Passover this week. So you’re not likely to find me eating roadkill. Apparently, I don’t know what I’m missing.
RELATED CONTENTEditor's view: Blondie’s back — with Pearls
ROBIN WASHINGTON: Two weeks ago, I announced the News Tribune was canceling the comic strip that’s run in the paper since 1937; not because of its quality, but because of how much we were being charged for it.
RELATED CONTENTSojourner traveled a perilous road for freedom
ROBIN WASHINGTON: If you’ve gotten to know Sue Sojourner since her move to Duluth in the late 1990s, you’re probably aware of her civil rights work in Mississippi.
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Hidden treasure gets better with road closure
Robin Washington column: One of Duluth’s hidden treasures is Seven Bridges Road. One of the reasons is three sets of Jersey barriers — at the bottom, about a third of the way up the hill, and at the top.
RELATED CONTENTNo standing in doorways or blocking the hall: Dylan ticket sales going fine
ROBIN WASHINGTON COLUMN: If you hurry, you can buy a ticket online for the Bob Dylan, Wilco and My Morning Jacket concert at Bayfront Festival Park for only $291. Or you can head down to the DECC in person and get them for 68 bucks apiece.
RELATED CONTENTDNT pair ran for the ages
Robin Washington column: Given that their 35 years apiece add up to seven decades at the News Tribune, don’t think for a minute that the greatest moments of reporters Kevin Pates and Mark Stodghill could be summed up in a single column. I’m not even going to try.
RELATED CONTENTBefore ‘42,’ interracial teams barnstormed the Northland
Robin Washington column: ‘42’ is a classic based-on-a-true story biopic. Making the rounds concurrent with the movie is “Color Blind: The Forgotten Team that Broke Baseball’s Color Line” by Tom Dunkel, the story of a semipro team formed in Bismarck, N.D., in 1933, well before Robinson’s signing with Brooklyn in 1947.
RELATED CONTENTAfter suspect’s capture, city on a hill shines again
ROBIN WASHINGTON: The streets and landmarks were exactly as I knew them: I had walked along Norfolk Street in Cambridge, just down from where the Tsarnaevs now lived, visiting a
RELATED CONTENTCan we attract the barbed wire collectors to Duluth?
Robin Washington: It was dreadfully quiet in the skywalk last week after 3,000 high school robotics team members and their families had gone home. It kind of looked like … Duluth — just when we were getting used to a famished lunchtime crowd eating and spending its way from Famous Dave’s to Zen House.
RELATED CONTENTWhat was your worst-paid job?
Parade Magazine’s annual “What people earn” edition today might give us a sense of accomplishment for making more than the 54-year-old part-time clown from Topeka, Kan., even if few will ever see in a lifetime what a single-named British singer takes home in three months.
RELATED CONTENTDo high school students read newspapers? These will write for one
Robin Washington column: Young people don’t read the newspaper, right? They get whatever information they need from the net, correct? Not if you’re talking about the Duluth East Daredevils robotics team or their Blue Twilight counterparts from metro-area Eagan High School.
RELATED CONTENTRoundabouts or rotaries? It depends how you spin it
One of the quality-of-life improvements of moving back to Duluth after 17 years in Boston is that I no longer have to drive offensively. It also means not worrying about navigating rotaries — nightmarish traffic circles where the secret for getting across is may the most aggressive driver win.
RELATED CONTENTResolutions reveal best intentions
ROBIN WASHINGTON COLUMN: What do our community leaders and elected officials have planned for the New Year? And how are the rest of us looking toward 2013?
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