Photo: Bonnie Obremski/RepJNorthfield The owners of the new “a.renee salon” on Clinton Lane off Route 3 hosted hundreds of beauty-seekers and those in search for hair stylists on Thursday evening…
Category: <span>Blogosphere</span>
First United Church of Christ pastor Sandy Johnson started blogging on the First UCC home page back in March and has been keeping it up — due, no doubt, to…
I was explaining our LoGroNo discussion guidelines to RepJ reporter Bonnie Obremski on Sunday. It was on my mind in part because of the Sunday StarTribune commentary by editor Nancy…
Our guest today was Randy Jennings, local citizen, long time Northfielder, and eloquent critic of Locally Grown. We mostly discussed his criticism of the recent controversial blog posts and comment…
Northfield’s civic blogosphere got a boost in the summer of 2004 when a group of government leaders from the U.K. visited Northfield. (We hosted them at the Contented Cow, naturally.…
Minnesota Public Radio’s Public Insight Journalis (PIJ) project hosted a moderated discussion last Friday night in their UBS Forum. A group of about 20 citizens selected from their PIJ…
I’m heading to the Minnesota Journalism Center at the Univ. of Minnesota later this morning for a conference titled New Pamphleteers/New Reporters: Convening Entrepreneurs Who Combine Journalism, Democracy, Place and…
Randy Jennings added this comment to the discussion thread attached to my blog post in which I was critical of the CVB. Hey Griff, Since you have such strong opinions…
In Sunday’s Strib: Citizens Kane & Jane: Grass-roots “citizen journalism” is taking off in Minnesota’s online communities as moonlighters report on issues they say the mass media are missing. (See…