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Why the Duluth News Tribune is canceling ‘Blondie’
ROBIN WASHINGTON: Starting Wednesday, “Blondie” will no longer appear in the News Tribune. A new strip, “Pearls Before Swine,” will take its place.
RELATED CONTENTDuluth native's cat soldiers take on terracotta army
ROBIN WASHINGTON: If you haven’t made it down to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts for the China’s Terracotta Warriors exhibit that ends at 5 p.m. today, there’s still one more week to see a complementary installation. Or at least a send-up of it.
RELATED CONTENTObama’s inauguration: What would Malcolm and Martin say?
ROBIN WASHINGTON: Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr., are arguing. It’s Jan. 20, 2009, if dates are kept in the spirit world, and the subject is Barack Obama, who is about to take the oath of office as president of the United States.
RELATED CONTENTIce cap melting? Let’s not miss the boat
ROBIN WASHINGTON: A recent New Yorker magazine article chronicled how the Russians last summer launched an ore boat for China on a route that’s normally blocked by ice. Global warming nightmares are bad enough, but this could hit the Northland right in the taconite pile.
RELATED CONTENTWhen Grandma takes a handicapped parking spot
ROBIN WASHINGTON: Before anything else, heed this: Never, ever use someone else’s handicapped parking permit. It’s a matter of respecting those who truly need it, and it’s just not the right thing to do.
RELATED CONTENTRobin Washington: An invitation to get past the hurt of racist video
There’s no point in debating whether or not the video of two blackface-wearing University of Minnesota Duluth students — one currently enrolled, one former — is racist and derogatory. The two women admitted as much to the school’s student newspaper last week, apologizing profusely for having “horribly decided” to clown around obscenely in front of a video camera after putting on facial treatments.
RELATED CONTENTRobin Washington: Tall tales from the AT&T tower
For Duluthians, the tower is part of our skyline; the chiseled profile of a metropolis that separates us from a Fargo or Grand Forks to proclaim, “Yes, dear little humans. You are in a genuine City — a place where, had we superheroes, we would offer them Tall Buildings to be scaled in a single bound.”
RELATED CONTENTRobin Washington: For one veteran, peacetime was an era of change
If you know anything about Twin Ports veterans, you’ve heard the names Richard Bong, Mike Colalillo and Joe Gomer.
RELATED CONTENTAs East Coast reels, it’s our turn to pay it forward
ROBIN WASHINGTON COLUMN: After a hurricane hit the East Coast, it’s our turn to pay it forward, and the packages are in the mail.
RELATED CONTENTRobin Washington column: Irene Morgan remembered — and why we have historic markers
Editor’s note: On Saturday, a historic marker was dedicated in Saluda, Va., to Irene Morgan, who died at 90 in 2007. Eleven years before Rosa Parks, Morgan refused to give up her seat to a white couple on an interstate bus, leading to a 1946 Supreme Court case that found segregation in interstate travel unconstitutional. News Tribune editor Robin Washington, who produced a television documentary about her and the early Civil Rights Movement, was asked to speak at the dedication. Here are his comments — and a postscript.
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Shamelessly pursuing the greatest documentary ever
Robin Washington column: Does getting your friends to vote for a film really mean it's the greatest documentary ever?
RELATED CONTENTRobin Washington column: Making a pitch against hunger
We’ll leave it to the experts from CHUM and the Damiano Center and Second Harvest and the other local relief agencies to tell you the exact number of people who go hungry in Duluth. All I can say is, anecdotally, any doubts were erased on an unseasonably cool Grandma’s Marathon Saturday a few years ago when I helped serve the free meal at the Juneteenth celebration.
RELATED CONTENTIn Two Harbors, a pronounced difference between candidates
ROBIN WASHINGTON COLUMN: The candidates’ debate at the Two Harbors Community Center on Thursday night was a model of democracy. But there was an audible difference between the candidates.
RELATED CONTENTUn-Fair Campaign opponent had unusual start in life
ROBIN WASHINGTON COLUMN: When Phil Pierson’s name first emerged as the leader of the effort opposing the Un-Fair Campaign, News Tribune managing editor Georgia Swing did a double-take.
RELATED CONTENTA dollar store by any name still a bargain
Robin Washington column: If a dollar store couldn’t make it in the mall area off Superior’s Tower Avenue, then how about a … dollar store?
RELATED CONTENTBiking for fun — and introspection
You see a different Duluth on a bicycle. A few houses in my neighborhood, unnoticed when driving by, are carbon copies of my own; so much so that I want to time my passing-by to ask the owners what they’ve done with the kitchen.
RELATED CONTENTWhy we ran Gauthier story — and why he deserves empathy
ROBIN WASHINGTON COLUMN: An elected official is a subject in a criminal investigation. There is no shortage of similar stories, some of which result in prosecutions. Others, like Kerry Gauthier’s, do not.
RELATED CONTENTFormer Fox 21 news director finds new job — and contrition
ROBIN WASHINGTON: Let’s call it Jason’s Journey. For former Fox 21 KQDS-TV news director Jason Vincent, 32, it’s a continuum of everything he’d learned, or hadn’t learned, about cultural respect and identity, including his own.
RELATED CONTENTDuluth businessman and wife are certifiably married after 31 years
ROBIN WASHINGTON COLUMN: Donde and John Goldfine are getting married today. Four months after their 31st anniversary.
RELATED CONTENTMy word! You can’t call a creek an ethnic slur
ROBIN WASHINGTON: Rather than repeat it, let’s just call it an ethnic slur that rhymes with bagel. And even if it’s self-applied, it’s still derogatory. So it was more than a little surprising to find it in a Lake County Sheriff’s Office report recently.
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