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Tuesday’s other Wikileak: Army memo on soldiers’ exposure to toxic trash

By Chris Steller | 03.12.09 | 10:09 am

51px-wl_hour_glass_uppercase_halfsizeWikileaks: They’re not just for revealing how Norm Coleman stores unprotected, unencrypted donor data anymore.
We mentioned yesterday the varied mix of leaked documents that the Wikileaks.org Web site posts, including a U.S. Army memo on soldiers’

Happy Buy Nothing Day

By Chris Steller | 11.28.08 | 7:11 am


Photo: Adbusters
Photo: Adbusters

If ever there was a year in which Buy Nothing Day might really take off, it’s 2008, as…

Todd (Palin) and me: Day one on the campaign trail with the ‘first dude’

By Paul Demko | 10.17.08 | 7:22 am

The big guns come out in Duluth. But only T-Pal continues on to meet the snowmobiling faithful in Grand Rapids and Bemidji.

‘First dude’ and absent Sarah upstage Norm at Duluth Sportsmen for Coleman rally

By Paul Demko | 10.16.08 | 7:27 pm

The event was billed as a Sportsmen for Norm Coleman rally featuring Todd Palin, but the guests of honor — besides Norm and the First Dude, they included Coleman’s wife Laurie and National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre — arrived to find the crowd in the midst of a full-throated “We love Sarah!” chant.

In selling parkland to pay bills, mighty Duluth joins little Lilydale

By Chris Steller | 09.12.08 | 8:46 am

Recent headlines out of Duluth haven’t been pretty — except when they’ve been over pictures of the Tiffany window that the city may auction off to get out of a $6.5 million budget hole. City officials’ efforts to sell off another public asset — parkland along picturesque Park Point — puts Duluth in the same league as one of the Twin Cities metro area’s tiniest towns: little Lilydale, Minn.

Duluth’s Lakewalk won’t take detour for condos

By Dan Haugen | 02.27.08 | 8:44 am

They don’t call it the Lakewalk for nothing. Duluth residents told their city council last night they want an extension of the city’s walking/running/biking trail to actually follow the shore of Lake Superior. Earlier, a city planner proposed an…

Big Stone II, the prequel?

By Dan Haugen | 02.06.08 | 9:50 am

In the news again: A controversial transmission line project that will carry electricity into Minnesota from a new coal-burning power plant beyond our border. I’m not talking about Big Stone II, but rather Arrowhead-Weston,…

Nutty Polls and News Blues

By Paul Schmelzer | 10.19.07 | 4:59 pm

More on Spring: A followup to the story about Duluth meteorologist Karl Spring calling Al Gore a “left wing nut”: Public radio’s KUWS has posted the audio from the October 12 conversation [mp3]…

Two Righties and a ‘Left-Wing Nut’

By Paul Schmelzer | 10.18.07 | 9:45 am

Duluth meteorologist calls Gore a “left-wing nut.” As a scientist, you might think Karl Spring would have an informed opinion on Al Gore’s work on climate change. He’s got opinions, but they don’t come from…

Keynote by “Dead Man Walking” nun cancelled due to “partisanship”

By Paul Schmelzer | 08.23.06 | 7:12 am

Sister Helen Prejean of Dead Man Walking fame was uninvited as keynote speaker of a Diocese of Duluth education dinner in October because she was a signatory in an ad calling for the removal of George W. Bush,…