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  • Joined: December 14, 2022
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COMMUNITY CALENDAR

School Board Meeting The School Board of I.S.D. 166 will meet for a Regular School Board Meeting Thursday, March 21st, 2024 at 5:00 pm, in the Jane Mianowski Conference Center, 101 West 5th Street, Grand Marais, MN.

Outdoors

Take your time and solutions will come We were just talking about something. Then (as happens) I thought of something related.

Wondering ’61

is part complex murder mystery, part occasional golf shot, part passionate Rom-Com, and nearly compete North Shore travelogue. Trey and Sybil are back with his mother, Madeline, as FYI Investigations based both in Grand Marais and the Kenwood area of Minneapolis.

Wildlife Matters

About two years ago, I wrote a column about migration (May 14, 2022) which included a summary of the annual migration of the eastern North American population of monarch butterflies to a location in Mexico which took a number of generations to complete. Then on Jan.28, 2023, my column included a paragraph about the major decline in monarch butterflies in North America.

CLEAN ENERGY

Strong market forces affecting our energy sector are creating our clean energy future through “beneficial electrification” of our lives and economy, offering us a better quality of life and protecting our environment for less cost. We need enormous amounts of clean, cost-effective wind, solar and hydroelectric, plus major energy storage, to make these “renewables” our reliable “baseload” power and fully harvest these benefits.

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bers, letters and symbols). He'd face the blackboard (all of us sitting there without a clue how to proceed). His left arm covers his torso (a calming, safe gesture), the lefthand holding the right elbow, right hand stroking his chin. Head cocked. Standing on his right leg, his left out like a Rembrandt Dutch Master. And he'd stare at the stumping problem and think.

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.