Brian Ojanpa

Brian Ojanpa

• Ojanpa: In search of a "brand" new day

  he Greater Mankato Convention and Visitors Bureau has commissioned Bill Baker to conjure branding that will pique outsiders’ interest.

  May 11, 2012 1 Photo

• Ojanpa: Trial artist vies for face time

  Cedric Hohnstadt is a courtroom sketch artist, a job that continues to occupy a  niche in an era of instant, real time, 24/7 everything.

  May 4, 2012 1 Photo

• Ojanpa: No shortage of entrants in incredible inedible contest

  The fast-food industry has ably discovered the benefits of selling bad as good and repulsion as yummy.

  April 13, 2012 1 Photo

• Ex-Mankato Mayor Christ weighs in missing Dakota War marker

  Mayor says he knows where 8,500 pound granite marker is and isn't telling

  April 6, 2012 2 Photos

• Ojanpa: Egg hunts not always kid stuff

  Kids' Easter egg hunts can progress one of two ways — happily and smoothly,
  as most of them are, or shamefully out of control, a la the event in
  Colorado Springs, Colo., last year.

  March 31, 2012 1 Photo

• OJANPA: TV's next test: oral exams

  Gesture- and voice-controlled TV is coming soon to a prone position near you.

  March 23, 2012 1 Photo

• OJANPA: March Madness is on the job

  Any time frittered away by peeking in on ball games would be time frittered away anyway by, well, fritterers. You know who you are.

  March 16, 2012 1 Photo

• OJANPA: No school wants to be "the first"

  In the tenor of our contemporary times, in particular the Mankato area recently, it’s pertinent to note that the Michigan school bombing wasn’t done by a student, nor did a bomb threat precede it.

  March 9, 2012 1 Photo

• Ojanpa: A pair of jeans to die for

  March 2, 2012 1 Photo

• Ojanpa: Archers keeping lid on city deer populations

  February 24, 2012 1 Photo

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