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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
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.
By Robin Washington , June 16, 2013
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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
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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
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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.
By Robin Washington , May 26, 2013
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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
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