The Willard Munger State Trail is a network of multiple-use trails that connects Hinckley, Minnesota with Duluth, Minnesota. Depending upon the season, the interconnected trails offer hiking, bicycling, inline skating and snowmobiling. The 63 mile Hinckley to Duluth trail is the longest paved tr
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06/28/2008
Over the past three decades, worker productivity in the United States has increased by a whopping seventy-six per cent. But during the same period, real hourly wages, adjusted for inflation, have increased by less than two per cent. Meanwhile, we have a housing crisis, aggravated by a sluggish e
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06/28/2008
Founded in 1972, the Minnesota Youth Symphony was founded (under the direction of the organization's first Music Director, Ralph Winkler) for the purpose of providing intensive education and performing experience to talented young musicians. MYS has just completed its thirty-fifth anniversary yea
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06/28/2008
Lake Superior is the largest and cleanest of the Great Lakes. But Lake Superior faces constant threats from pollution and other challenges. The Save Lake Superior Association, organized in 1969, is dedicated to preserving and protecting Lake Superior. The group was originally formed to protest
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06/28/2008
SourceWatch is a project of the Center for Media and Democracy. The organization has the mission of documenting the public relations and propaganda activities of various PR companies and lobbying groups. SourceWatch also tracks the activities of think tanks, corporate-backed organizations and o
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06/22/2008
Want to know which candidates are receiving lobbying money from the National Association of REALTORS®? You'll find this information on the Center for Responsive Politics' OpenSecrets.org website. The Center reports Federal Election Commission data for the current election cycle (actually a two-y
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06/18/2008
Many American real estate professionals are unfamiliar with our colleagues around the world, including our counterparts in Europe. When perusing the 2008 Edition of "Who's Who in Luxury Real Estate" (published by John Brian Losh of LuxuryRealEstate.com), I came across their roster of featured rea
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06/17/2008
Bill O'Reilly is at it again. Fresh from a recent gaffe where film was released of O'Reilly throwing a tantrum during a broadcast, the bad-tempered Fox commentator recently attacked media icons Dan Rather and Bill Moyers as "radicals" for supporting legislation to control media for hire and mega-
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06/17/2008
If you stay in this business long enough, and specialize in the luxury real estate market, sooner or later you'll encounter the celebrity client. I use the term "celebrity" in a generalized manner, to describe a client who is highly-visible, perhaps very wealthy or a public figure. People in thi
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06/16/2008
I don't make a habit of poking fun at the television news media, but this one really made me chuckle. The network news reported this evening that longevity in America has now increased to the point where "Americans are living longer than ever before". The reporter attributed the improvement in lo
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06/11/2008
