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
Column: 
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Winter Solstice, 2010

By Rich Broderick

Imagine the sound our collective yearning
for the return of the light must make:
all that whistling past the graveyard
in the darkest hours of the night, hours
which, at this time of year, seem like
they will never end, though that
has never happened, at least not yet,
the sun remaining true to the blind law

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Snow Job: Blizzards, alienation, and the market’s invisible hand

By Rich Broderick, Ground Zero

This past weekend, at the height of the blizzard that descended on the Twin Cities, my son and I got out our cross-country skis and went on an expedition.

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To Hell or Connaught: The “free market" puts Ireland on a starvation diet – again

By Rich Broderick, Ground Zero

Johnny O'Broderick was my first direct ancestor to emigrate from Ireland to the United States, eventually sending back enough money for his wife, Mary, to book passage and follow him a few years later.

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Louis Menage and the First Amendment remedy for financial crime

By Rich Broderick, Ground Zero

Poor Louis Menage. He was a wayward financier way ahead of his time.

As much as any member of the Dayton, Lowry, Walker, or Pillsbury clan, Menage has a legitimate claim to being one of the City Fathers of Minneapolis. But you’ve probably never heard of him, right?

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Secrets of the City: The Central Corridor dig unearths a mystery in Saint Paul’s Lowertown neighborhood.

By Rich Broderick

“What the hell is going on around here?”

It’s a common enough reaction from pedestrians and motorists trying to make their way through Lowertown these days.

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Why We Need Tom Emmer in Minnesota’s Driver Seat, by Denny Hecker

By Rich Broderick, Ground Zero

Dear Citizens of Minnesota (and you little ladies, too!):

Sure, I may be someplace right now that’s going to keep me from voting this November, but with all the time I suddenly have on my hands, I’ve been giving plenty of thought to the Governor’s race.

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | On the Road Again: Activist and troubadour David Rovics comes to town

By Rich Broderick, Free Speech Zone
Andre Lyager

Looking for a break from Tea Party dyspepsia? Consider attending one of three shows this weekend starring singer-songwriter and activist David Rovics.

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Fool Me Twice: the rise of the American lumpenproletariat, part III

By Rich Broderick, Ground Zero

It's fall now in this, our year of discontent, and of late I've begun spotting members of a species whose proliferation I first witnessed visiting my brother in Georgia this past summer.

I'm speaking of the growing numbers of what appear to be middle-class adults standing on sidewalks along commercial boulevards and waving placards for some retail outfit located just across the par

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Fool me twice: The rise of the American lumpenproletariat, part II

By Rich Broderick, Engage Minnesota

The hand-wringing has begun. How can American citizens vote to take Congressional control away from the Democratic Party and hand it back to the Republican Party, the very organization that ran the country into the ground during the decade and a half when it controlled either one or both chambers of Congress? How can voters be so blind to their own self-interest?

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