We’re going to do it right this time!

If you wake up next week with a serious illness will you be searching for a doctor with a 100% failure rate? Silly question eh? Well maybe not. Maybe it depends on the circumstances. Maybe you are more interested in wealth than your health and this doctor offers you the promise of a quick […]

Response to Tom Rukavina Letter Two; 7 March 2012

I see no reason why I can’t just stick with my opening statement that after a hundred years of open pit iron mining near cities like Virginia and Eveleth they are like two islands of humanity in a sea of mining dumps and pits. When I mentioned that all people had to do was take […]

Manhattan Island was purchased for a bag of beads and trinkets, why not Northern Minnesota

How much for Lake Superior?

Coming home with a white plastic bag filled with various beads and trinkets from the open house of the new Twin Metals Building in the Ely Business Park was truly a great feeling. There are few things in life that can possibly compare to walking home swinging a […]

The Cracks in the Copper mining Sales Pitch…becoming clearer.

Failure of MN State Agencies to protect our water

Watch the VIDEO of Ely Tuesday Group presentation. The slides that Paul Danicic presented during his presentation to the Ely Tuesday Group showed only a few but some of the major faults in the Copper Mining sales pitch we have been hearing for the last […]

Buzzing About Spring, April 4, 2011…Two weeks before what we hope is the last snowfall of the season today April 16th, 2011

Buzzing About Spring, April 4, 2011…Two weeks before what we hope is the last snowfall of the season today April 16th, 2011

It’s been a long winter here at the end of the road. We had a lot of snow and cold temperatures that tested the metal of the habitants who chose to winter here […]