Aaron Brown

Contributing Columnist

Opinion

Aaron Brown is a columnist from the Iron Range, an author of books and essays and a communication instructor at Minnesota North College in Hibbing. His commentary focuses on the people, news and culture of the Iron Range and northern Minnesota. He was raised in a trailer house on a local junkyard and is the first in five generations of his family to never work in an iron mine. He lives down a dirt road on the western Mesabi. His current and past writing can be found at MinnesotaBrown.com.

Aaron Brown is a columnist from the Iron Range, an author of books and essays and a communication instructor at Minnesota North College in Hibbing. His commentary focuses on the people, news and culture of the Iron Range and northern Minnesota. He was raised in a trailer house on a local junkyard and is the first in five generations of his family to never work in an iron mine. He lives down a dirt road on the western Mesabi. His current and past writing can be found at MinnesotaBrown.com.

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Brown: Hunting licenses in Minnesota will soon go digital. I get it. And I hate it.

Getting my license from the small store by my house has become an enjoyable ritual. Now there will be one less reason for people to gather in public.

November 8, 2024

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Brown: On the eve of the election, both campaign offices in this Minnesota town were dark

That’s because most of the action has moved online.

November 5, 2024

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Brown: When a blue district turns red, the dirt stays the same

Republicans have a good chance of sweeping all state House seats on the Iron Range for the first time since World War I. The question is what’s changed.

October 27, 2024

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Aaron Brown: In the quick of time — a dispatch from the ‘sandwich generation’ years

Research shows that people who care for an aging parent while still raising children struggle with increased financial and emotional strains. But the time investment is worth it.

October 8, 2024