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Peter Smith: Settling Iron Range disputes

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News... politics... sports... weather... what time the coffee shop opens. Up on the Iron Range, they'll debate just about anything -- any time and anywhere. And some of those debates can go on for hours, days, weeks, or even longer. But the internet could be changing all that.

Just the other day MPR essayist Peter Smith says he got wind of an intriguing new high tech form of Iron Range "dispute resolution".