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HEALTHY TIDBITS Port Cities Luncheon, Greysolon Ballroom
The Port Cities Luncheon this year will be at the Greysolon Ballroom located at 231 East Superior Street, Wednesday, May 8th. The change in venue is due to the water problems at the Radisson Hotel. T...
Posted on 4/17/13 at 5:47 PM
Spike in gas price sparks economics lesson
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.
By Robin Washington , May 19, 2013
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After 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
By Robin Washington , April 21, 2013
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Their tragedy is our tragedy
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.
By Robin Washington , April 16, 2013
The Rose Man remembered
ROBIN WASHINGTON: I don’t think he knew it, but Kevin Ferris was my fashion guru.
By Robin Washington , March 31, 2013
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Can 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.
By Robin Washington , March 17, 2013
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What 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.
By Robin Washington , March 10, 2013
Do 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.
By Robin Washington , March 03, 2013
Roundabouts 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.
By Robin Washington , February 24, 2013
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Sojourner 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.
By Robin Washington , February 10, 2013
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Why the Duluth News Tribune is canceling ‘Blondie’
ROBIN WASHINGTON: Starting Wednesday, “Blondie” will no longer appear in the News Tribune. A new strip, “Pearls Before Swine,” will take its place.
By Robin Washington , February 03, 2013
Duluth native's cat soldiers take on terracotta army
ROBIN WASHINGTON: If you haven’t made it down to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts for the China’s Terracotta Warriors exhibit that ends at 5 p.m. today, there’s still one more week to see a complementary installation. Or at least a send-up of it.
By Robin Washington , January 27, 2013
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Obama’s inauguration: What would Malcolm and Martin say?
ROBIN WASHINGTON: Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr., are arguing. It’s Jan. 20, 2009, if dates are kept in the spirit world, and the subject is Barack Obama, who is about to take the oath of office as president of the United States.
By Robin Washington , January 20, 2013
Ice cap melting? Let’s not miss the boat
ROBIN WASHINGTON: A recent New Yorker magazine article chronicled how the Russians last summer launched an ore boat for China on a route that’s normally blocked by ice. Global warming nightmares are bad enough, but this could hit the Northland right in the taconite pile.
By Robin Washington , January 13, 2013
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