Aaron Brown
Columnist and Editorial Board Member at The Minnesota Star Tribune
North Woods author / @StarTribune columnist. Writes about Mesabi Iron Range history & Minnesota news.
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1 week ago |
startribune.com | Aaron Brown
Opinion editor's note: Strib Voices publishes a mix of commentary online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. The fight over the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame in Eveleth, Minn., is unfolding like an early morning mini-mites game. The 5-year-olds are on the ice. People are screaming from the stands. Technically, the puck is moving, but it could be five or six centuries before anyone scores.
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2 weeks ago |
bloomberg.com | Aaron Brown
Funding choices. (Bloomberg Opinion) -- Three recent stories suggest financial problems at Harvard University, problems that likely extend to most elite and some non-elite schools. First is the standoff with the Trump administration which has led to a $2.2 billion funding freeze and threatened its tax-exempt status. Second is a Bloomberg News report that it is in talks to sell $1 billion of private-equity investments from its endowment.
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2 weeks ago |
startribune.com | Aaron Brown
Aaron Brown is a columnist for the Minnesota Star Tribune Editorial Board. He's based on the Iron Range but focuses on the affairs of the entire state.
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2 weeks ago |
startribune.com | Aaron Brown
By Aaron Brown A writer can't bring back the dead, though this one will try to save somebody. The mental health stigmas of the past are mercifully fading away. We need not remain silent anymore. Over the next few weeks, I'll share stories from around Minnesota about gains in mental health care, the unfinished work, and the hope that life allows, if we listen.
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2 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Aaron Brown
One of the most influential social science papers of the 21st century argued that when countries legalize prostitution between consenting adults, it causes more people to be coerced into sex work. The study, published in 2013 in the journal World Development, has been used to stop legalization initiatives around the world and to justify harsh new laws that turn customers of voluntary sex work into criminals, often in the name of stopping human trafficking.
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The second in my series of @StarTribune columns about mental health issues in Minnesota explores unique challenges in rural areas. The same self-reliance that allows one to thrive as a farmer or logger can become a barrier when confronting mental illness. https://t.co/Hb2wLNRQw2
RT @MaxHailperin: In which Aaron Brown channels James Carville: It's the economy, stupid.
The biggest barrier to Minnesota copper nickel mining under the Trump Administration is Trump’s economy. https://t.co/sCaJHFNDQ6