Rich Broderick

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About me

Rich Broderick (email richb [at] lakecast [dot] com) lives in St. Paul and taught journalism and mass communication at Anoka-Ramsey Community College. He is a writer, poet, actor, and social activist, whose journalism and literary writing have won numerous honors, including several Page One Awards from the Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists, a Minnesota State Arts Board literary fellowship, and a Minnesota Book Award. He is currently a reseach fellow at the Thai Khadi Institute at Thammasat University in Bangkok where he is writing a book on Thailand.

Favorite Places: 
the Black Dog Cafe listening to The Fantastic Merlins, the A-Z Gallery, Crosby Park, on an Express Ferry on the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok, Willow River State Park, a hammock, standing in front of Rothko's "Untitled (Purple, White, Red" at The Art Institute of Chicago, having dinner with my family, walking along the Mississippi with my friend Mike Finley
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A Modest Proposal for Francis I: WWJD to Paul Ryan?

By Rich Broderick, Ground Zero

Here's an idea for Pope Francis, a way of establishing his bona fides as a man who cares about the poor and the growing social inequities that are swelling the ranks of poverty in the wo

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Ten years later: the Iraq invasion and the God of War

By Rich Broderick, Ground Zero

In early 2003, poet Sam Hamill, founder of Cooper Canyon Press, which under his leadership became one of the top literary publishers in the country, called for poets across the nation to stage

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Our very own settler problem: America’s Culture-of-Gun-Deaths

By Rich Broderick, Ground Zero

In the debate raging over gun control, one point needs to be emphasized.

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Danny Klecko: Tattooed baker, rebel poet

By Rich Broderick, TC Daily Planet

Danny Klecko with Ben and Connor Crowell (Photo by Lisa McCann)

One of the first things you notice are the tats: 42 of them in all – and more to come for, as Danny Klecko explains, "Being Polish, I don’t always share my feelings and I guess that’s my way of doing it."

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Batting Third: in support of independent political parties

By Rich Broderick, Ground Zero

The other day a Facebook friend sent me a horrified inquiry asking if I had meant to “like” Mitt Romney on Facebook.

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Bain Capital Meets Frankenstorm: It's an ill wind that blows no good

By Rich Broderick, Ground Zero

In the wake of megastorm Sandy, Bain Capital, which was co-founded by Mitt Romney and where he served as CEO until he resigned in 1999 but didn't

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Etch-a-Sketch: Romney campaign faces possible lawsuit

By Rich Broderick, Ground Zero

Already under threat from the company that manufactures Etch-A-Sketch for product defamation, the Mitt Romney campaign committee is now facing a possible lawsuit for copyright infringement from The

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Let’s Call the Whole Thing off: Romney and Ryan deny “rumor” about marriage

By Rich Broderick, Ground Zero

Chicago, IL -- Still reeling from negative reaction to his comments on the night the U.S.

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Romney and Ryan make it official: Big date set for January 20, 2013

By Rich Broderick, Ground Zero

Miami, September 5 -- Gazing at each other with the fondness that observers report has been waxing ever since the two men first met several months ago at a policy forum, GOP Presidential candidate

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Duck-and-cover: The ticking American time bomb

By Rich Broderick, Ground Zero

Another mass shooting, this time outside the Empire State Building, two dead, a dozen wounded. Next week – or  the week after – there will be another, then another soon after, and so on. This we know for sure.

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