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STAFF BLOG CAPITOL CHATTER Legislative notebook: Farmers want clarification
By Don Davis and Danielle Killey Farmers are not sure how much more they will be taxed after the Democratic-controlled Legislature adopted a $2 billion tax increase. It appears that farmers will pay ...
Posted on 5/21/13 at 1:12 AM
A MINNESOTAN IN CHINA Tai Chi: What Goes Around Comes Around
It had only been two days on this mountain in Hubei province. But in a whole new environment----one that encouraged the focus of every moment, no less---this meant a concentrated, super-saturated 48 ...
Posted on 9/8/12 at 8:20 AM
STAFF BLOG THE AREA VOICES COMMUNITY A real life Eva Gabor? - Areavoices Digest #80
If you're over a certain age...ahem...you grew up not only watching this ridiculous show but singing it's catchy lyrics. Green acres is the place for me. Farm livin' is the life for me. Land sprea...
Posted on 6/27/12 at 2:42 PM
MS SIMPLICITY Gooseberry Park Players: Cinderella x4
Can I tell you how blessed we are to be raising our children in this community?! The options open for our children are limitless. My youngest has gotten the acting bug for about a year and a half. S...
Posted on 7/19/11 at 9:15 AM
HEALTH BEAT Words and medicine: the doctor as storyteller
It's July, and that means it's time once more for Minnesota Medicine's annual issue devoted to creative writing by Minnesota physicians and medical students. The July edition of the magazine, whi...
Posted on 7/15/09 at 5:11 AM
Book Report: Exposing the underbelly of old D.C.
It’s no secret that talent runs in families. Years ago I worked with Anthony Morley on the Minneapolis Tribune.
By Dave Wood, columnist , September 07, 2012
Book Report: This author shines as voice of a community
Novelist Toni Morrison has won the National Book Critics Circle, the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for her fiction.
By Dave Wood, columnist , August 29, 2012
Book Review: Did she or didn’t she: Does it even matter?
Dorothy Parker was born on this day 119 years ago in West End, N.J., just a year after poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, about which Parker said “I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay, unhappily in my own horrible sneakers.”
By Dave Wood, columnist , August 24, 2012
Book Report: Big heart for a big ‘horse’ of a guy
I was in high school when Heisman Trophy winner Alan Ameche was making big news on Big Ten gridirons.
August 09, 2012
Book Report: This mystery worthy of Masterpiece Theatre
I’m not a big fan of detective novels in general, but I’m a sucker for the works of Agatha Christie and P.G. Wodehouse ever since I bought a 25-cent paperback of the latter’s hilarious novel, “Psmith” when I was a kid.
By Dave Wood, columnist , August 02, 2012
Book Report: Duluth poet: A blunt, dazzling wordsmith
Normally I write about two books each week — one national and one regional.
By Dave Wood, columnist , July 30, 2012
Book Report: Historical tinkering makes for lively reading
I’ve written before about alternative history and writers like Harry Turtledove. He writes what I like to call “what if” novels.
By Dave Wood, columnist , July 18, 2012
Book Report: ‘Birdseye’ look at frozen food, more
Mark Kurlansky astounded the reading world several years ago when he wrote “Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World.”
By Dave Wood, Book Reviewer , July 12, 2012
Hastings artist Dale Lewis’ dragon lady provides welcome to new gallery
Hastings artist/sculptor Dale Lewis’ latest creation, a dragon lady, welcomes people to the new Hastings Prescott Area Arts Council (HPAAC) art gallery on Orange Street in Prescott, Wis.
By Jane Lightbourn , July 03, 2012
Book Report: Genre readers are going for smut
Extra! Extra! Late breaking news from the publishing industry.
And it’s not good news.
By Dave Wood, columnist , June 18, 2012
Book Report: Guess I didn’t know her that well
I was very happy to receive “Walking the Rails,” by Ethel Erickson Radner (available at iUniverse.com; barnesandnoble.com or amazon.com, $13.95 paper; $23.95 hardcover; $3.99 e-book).
By Dave Wood, columnist , June 07, 2012
Book Report: Lyrical words tell the tale
Gary Boelhower, a St. Scholastica theology professor, writes on a variety of topics, his first wife, his daughter’s wedding, his gayness, his grandmother “ground down by the hard soil of two failed farms.”
May 31, 2012
Book Report: Even Rough Rider Teddy couldn’t tame NYC
Back in the 1950s adolescents looking for exciting reading about the facts of life, etc., turned to a series of books by muckraking journalists Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer.
By Dave Wood, columnist , May 18, 2012
Some spies never rest; revisit fictional Door County
Tom Nash seemingly has it made. He’s a retired British spy. He lives on the Cote D’Azur, the French Riviera, hobnobs with artists and writers and expatriates like Gerald and Sara Murphy.
By Dave Wood, columnist , May 04, 2012
Book Report: Romance genre blooms with ‘Rumspringa’
I hail from Whitehall where there’s a large settlement of Amish who moved in forty-odd years ago.
By Dave Wood, columnist , April 19, 2012
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