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District 110 State Representative Rich Brown is serving his third term in the Michigan Legislature, where he serves on the Appropriations Committee. A Bessemer resident, Rep. Brown was elected Gogebic County Clerk-Register of Deeds in January, 1985. In 1976, at the age of 20, Rep. Brown was elected to the Wakefield Township Board of Education, where he served four years, including one year as president.

Rep. Brown is the past Chair of the Gogebic County Community Mental Health Board and past president of Michigan Association of Community Health Boards. He is the former news director for WUPM in Ironwood, former reporter for the Ironwood Daily Globe; and he taught radio broadcasting at Transamerica School of Broadcasting at Wausau. In addition, Representative Brown served as president of the Ironwood Rotary in 1987-1988. He is the director of Marty's Goldenaires Senior Drum and Bugle Corps in Bessemer.

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Home Heating Assistance

Posted 12/03/2001

LANSING --  Guest columnist and Michigan Rep. Rich Brown, D-Bessemer, says state agencies and several gas companies in Michigan have programs to help people pay their utility bills in the winter. Home heating assistance is available from many sources for low-income families, senior citizens or persons with special medical situations. more 

Editor's Note: Read about Rep. Brown's keynote address at the Houghton Keweenaw Conservation District's 50th Annual Meeting on October 13, 2001, in Hancock.