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Ely city council: No need to ‘prove it first’
Adopts another resolution in support of sulfide mining Posted
Keith Vandervort
ELY – With little fanfare and no opposition, the City Council here this week adopted another resolution in support of sulfide mining in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness watershed.
In a unanimous vote, council members agreed to disregard proposals to “Prove it First,” as spelled out in recent federal and state legislation that would require scientific proof before any copper-nickel mining could be permitted in Minnesota without risking pollution to the nearby million-acre wilderness.
Bill Hanna, who died Jan. 11, worked at the newspaper from the mid-1980s until 2016.
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Linda Tyssen / Mesabi Tribune | 6:00 pm, Jan. 15, 2021 ×
Mesabi Daily News Executive Editor Bill Hanna shakes hands with Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton after Hanna introduced the governor to the Laurentian Chamber of Commerce dinner audience Feb. 8, 2013. The longtime editor died Jan. 11. (Photo courtesy of Mesabi Tribune)
VIRGINIA Chris Knight, publisher of the former Mesabi Daily News and now Mesabi Tribune, is remembering Bill Hanna as a committed journalist who wasn’t afraid to take on any issue in search of the truth. Knight s words are those echoed by many colleagues and friends in remarks to the Mesabi Tribune in the wake of Hanna s death.
Bill Hanna, who died Jan. 11, worked at the newspaper from the mid-1980s until 2016.
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Linda Tyssen / Mesabi Tribune | 6:00 pm, Jan. 15, 2021 ×
Mesabi Daily News Executive Editor Bill Hanna shakes hands with Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton after Hanna introduced the governor to the Laurentian Chamber of Commerce dinner audience Feb. 8, 2013. The longtime editor died Jan. 11. (Photo courtesy of Mesabi Tribune)
VIRGINIA Chris Knight, publisher of the former Mesabi Daily News and now Mesabi Tribune, is remembering Bill Hanna as a committed journalist who wasn’t afraid to take on any issue in search of the truth. Knight s words are those echoed by many colleagues and friends in remarks to the Mesabi Tribune in the wake of Hanna s death.
VIRGINIA â Chris Knight, publisher of the former Mesabi Daily News and now Mesabi Tribune, is remembering Bill Hanna as a committed journalist who wasnât afraid to take on any issue in search of the truth. Knight s words are those echoed by many colleagues and friends in remarks to the Mesabi Tribune in the wake of Hanna s death.
Hanna, former executive editor of the Mesabi Daily News and award-winning journalist, died early Monday morning, January 11, at his home in Virginia/Mountain Iron.
Hanna had been with the Mesabi Daily News from the mid-1980s until 2016, when he had a life-changing heart attack. He successfully underwent a heart transplant in 2017, receiving the heart of a young man who had died tragically. Later Hanna was diagnosed with terminal cancer, for which he had radiation and chemotherapy until December. He had been in hospice care since December 24. Hanna had been with the paper more than 30 years, joining the staff in the mid-1980s and serving as mana