September 2023
Pet of the Week
Here is Casper the Cat enjoying a hearty meal with Bob LaMettry. Casper came in from the woodshed on a very cold winter night over ten years ago and became a member of the family.
CONNECTIONS
As Cook County Attorney, I have requested approval in my 2024 budget to add an attorney to our staff of four, the first expansion in attorney office staff since general paralegal functions were added to make the Crime Victim-Witness Coordinator position full-time in approximately 2011. The last time attorney functions in our office were expanded was in 2002 when theAssistant CountyAttorney position went from part-time to full-time. While workloads have been expanding for our Office over the past several years, attorneys and staff were pushed to capacity in the past twelve months with a dramatic increase in the amount of serious criminal cases which were taken to jury trial.
Rare blue supermoon rises over Lake Superior
Photo courtesy of Paul Sundberg .
Rising Star Adalyn Plummer makes waves at the AAU Junior Olympic Games
On July 27th, 8-yearold Adalyn Plummer of the Cook County Community YMCA, a branch of the Duluth Area Family YMCA, and a Northern Swim Team member, traveled to Des Moines, Iowa, to showcase her talents at the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) 2023 Junior Olympic Games. Adalyn's participation in the event etched her name in history, as she became the youngest athlete from Cook County ever to compete in this event.
As I see it
IRA will help you save money on energy improvements to your home Here is more information about how the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) will help all Americans increase our energy efficiency and save on energy costs. Burning fossil fuels is very inefficient, over 50 percent of this energy is usually wasted as “lost” heat.
BEYOND REASON
I don’t know exactly why cramming the entire population of Minnesota (5.7 million) into one fairground over a one-week period is a good thing, but people seem to clamor for the thing. Like an old friend, they even give it a nickname: The Great Minnesota Get Together. Look, you can call the event “Fred” for all I care but its official name is The Minnesota State Fair.
Outdoors
with a-half years ago in the spring. That's how I know the 'half ' year or so.
Wondering ’61
We all want to be important to someone. Jim Manahan mattered to his clients, the legal profession, to Chilean people, and his family. Although not a perfect person, he was a good, talented, and interesting man. Why might we care about a Mankato attorney who died this year?