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STAFF BLOG JIMMY JABBER Flood proved worth of electronic media
Duluth was treated to Mother Natures softer side during Grandmas Marathon weekend so much so that the News Tribune pointed it out in the headline of a follow-up story Monday. What she brought out ...
Posted on 6/24/12 at 12:00 AM
No 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.
By Robin Washington , June 09, 2013
Lawmaker's View: Time for Minnesota to address the growing problem of synthetic drugs 
Duluth residents don’t need to be persuaded that synthetic drugs pose a serious threat to Minnesotans. We’ve read the stories about young people losing their lives after using these drugs. And we’ve followed the story of Last Place on Earth, the Duluth (head) shop that offers many of these drugs to its customers. It seems no matter what happens, Last Place on Earth always is able to reopen its doors.
By State Rep. Erik Simonson , June 07, 2013
‘T’ is for ‘Thanks, teachers’
SAM COOK: This is for the one who stands before our kids every morning to unveil the mysteries of multiplication tables or the bicameral legislative system or centrifugal force.
By Sam Cook , June 07, 2013
Monday with Mitch: Ernie’s voice is heard again
The flowers appear on the earth;
the time of the singing of birds is come,
and the voice of the turtle
is heard in our land
Every spring, Ernie Harwell slid into baseball season by reciting that biblical verse on the radio.
By Mitch Albom , June 03, 2013
National view: Bullying coaches are abusing your child
The coach called one player a “f——g retard” in front of his teammates. He told others that they shouldn’t enjoy themselves after a game because they played like, well, a compound obscenity sometimes used as a derogatory term for the female anatomy.
By Harlan Coben , June 02, 2013
Local view: Duluth is always home, except perhaps in winter
As I write this I am returning to Duluth for the summer. A timely move: Tucson’s temperature just topped 100 degrees for the first time this year. Tucson usually averages about 62 degrees this time of year. Yet it is a dry heat, so we can still sit in the shade to eat, read and enjoy the colorful desert and mountain terrain and wildlife.
By Thomas B. Wheeler , June 02, 2013
National view: War on terrorism isn’t over because he says so
As much as President Obama would like to close his eyes, click his heels three times and declare the war on terror over, war is a two-way street.
By Charles Krauthammer , June 02, 2013
National view: Republicans prove they can’t govern
With budgetary tantrums in the Senate and investigative play-acting in the House, the Republican Party is proving once again that it simply cannot be taken seriously.
By Eugene Robinson , June 02, 2013
DNT 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.
By Robin Washington , June 02, 2013
Phone free is the way to be
SAM COOK: I miss Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris and Van Morrison. I miss the sound of a mallard quacking, telling me I’m getting a call from a friend. Yep. I’m operating untethered this week.
By Sam Cook , May 31, 2013
‘Iron Will’: Film fulfills dreams, and not just those of the extras
CHUCK FREDERICK: For a taste — even for just a small taste — of fame, of stardom, of being discovered by Hollywood, we took time off from work and from family, we stuffed ourselves into antique clothing, and we waited hour after long grueling hour, sometimes in frigid cold.
By Chuck Frederick , May 31, 2013
National view: Federal edict chills campus free speech
I know it was hard to hear anything last week over the cacophony of the White House roof falling over Benghazi, the IRS and spying on reporters. But still, I was surprised there wasn’t more fuss about the Obama administration’s war on Shakespeare.
By Glenn Garvin , May 26, 2013
National view: Climate change is Obama’s mission
President Obama should spend his remaining years in office making the United States part of the solution to climate change, not part of the problem.
By Eugene Robinson , May 26, 2013
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