March 2024

Nice turnout for the E.A.T.S. event

On Thursday, March 7, music played by the North Shore Swing Band seeped from the high school cafeteria into the halls of Cook county High School, some attendees of the annual Cook County Minnesota Education Foundation E.A.T.S. fundraiser would stop, pause, and listen before munching their way down the hallway.

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COUNTY CONNECTIONS

Honoring Public Health and Human Services Professionals March and April are recognized nationally as Social Work Month (March) and Public Health Week (April 1- April 7). Cook County Public Health and Human Services (PHHS) employs 34 staff who provide direct service, health promotion, administrative and accounting functions in service of our mission: supporting the health, safety, and well-being of Cook County.

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The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) offers powerful Federal funding incentives, combined with new Minnesota state funding, to help utilities and every electricity consumer accomplish this important clean energy transformation. These incentives all focus on massive expansion of renewables generation and transmission for electricity consumers. Our nation is blessed with large areas (mostly central US) ideal for renewables generation. Most residential, commercial, and industrial electricity consumers are located near our coasts. Consequently, we must design and build huge amounts of new “renewables” primarily in the rural Midwest and connect it to consumers in distant population centers with major transmission infrastructure expansion. This incredible demand and powerful incentives for clean energy also strongly encourages rooftop solar and battery storage for homes and businesses (distributed generation) with upgrades needed of local grid infrastructure. These upgrades create opportunities to develop safer, stronger local grids more “resilient” to our increasing severe weather and natural disaster events.

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