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Albert Lea’s overlooked star: Richard Carlson
Friday, Nov. 28, 2008
Not long ago local historical researcher Kevin Savick gave me three Tribune articles from 1938 and early 1939 based on a “former local boy” who was gaining fame out in Hollywood.
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Coping with an allergy based on TV politics
Friday, Nov. 21, 2008
Before getting too involved with the topics of allergies, politics and television, let’s first define the word allergy.
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Let’s bring back the topic of oak savanna
Friday, Nov. 14, 2008
One of the details I noticed about Bancroft Bay City Park when I visited this place as part of my research for the Lifestyles article in the Oct. 19 issue was a phenomenon called an oak savanna. Read story
Don’t just drive by, folks; please do drop in
Friday, Nov. 7, 2008
Somewhere in the nation there’s just has to be a place called the Drop-In or Drop-Inn, or maybe Drop Inn without the hyphen.
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More Columns by Ed Shannon
- Those drive-by radio miracles that failed
- Boxing kangaroo has connections with Albert Lea
- Mixing in numbers with the food we eat
- Danish immigrant survives a shipwreck
- A timely look at cuckoo clocks then and now
- When the double twisters hit two counties
- Remembering the legacy of the Nee family
- Wind power really triumphs in Trimont
- Memory time with Dr. John G. Brundin
- The sad demise of the passenger pigeon
- A starling comparison on passenger pigeons
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Editorial: Time to rethink U of M salaries
When the salaries of many Minnesota residents have been frozen, and tuition at Minnesota’s No. 1 college is rising, the University of Minnesota ought to reconsider what it pays its president and head basketball coach.
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Letters to the Editor
Point of purchase is OK for donating to charities
I am writing in response to Tim Engstrom’s column on Nov. 25, undermining large companies and their point of sale contributions to various charities.
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