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New Year's resolutions are only worthwhile if they get you in the woods or on the lake more

Posted by Jesse White on Thursday, January 3, 2013, In : Outdoors resolutions 
    Generally, I try not to make New Year's resolutions that are going to take a lot of work or require any life altering changes.
    It's not that I'm lazy or afraid of a challenge, I just feel that if you are going to go with one of the usual resolutions like lose weight or stop drinking alcohol or whatever, then you should mean it when you declare "I'm not doing (fill in the blank) anymore."
    Otherwise, you're really wasting your time. You have to be willing to commit to your goal.
    Th...
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Nothing ventured, nothing gained

Posted by Jesse White on Friday, August 17, 2012, In : Writing 
By JESSE WHITE
   In June of 1995, just a few weeks after graduating from the University of Minnesota-Duluth with a double major in history and political science - and after receiving my seventh job rejection letter after doing so - it became painfully obvious to me that any hopes I had of returning to my roots on the Iron Range in northern Minnesota were fading quickly.
    My double major, it seemed, wasn't going to get me far in an area that lives and breathes mining and I was slowly wrappi...
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The View From My Stand


Jesse White A former outdoors writer and reporter for the Mesabi Daily News in Virginia, MN, and the Daily Tribune in Hibbing, MN, Jesse has been in the newspaper business for nearly 20 years. His numerous awards over the past two decades include five first-place awards from the Associated Press; two first-place National Newspaper awards; and a first-place Minnesota Newspaper Association award. He is an avid hunter and angler and enjoys guns and archery.
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