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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Contributing Columnists

Old family photo reveals how much has changed on Iron Range

Today, health care workers outnumber miners and there are more open jobs than people.

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