Opinion
What We Have to Lose with Cuts to Federal Education Funding
Recently, presidential candidate Donald Trump suggested eliminating the Federal Department of Education and cutting federal education funding by half or completely. After discussing these cuts, he asked, 'What do you have to lose?' As a resident of Cook County, a father, and someone deeply invested in our children’s education, I want to answer that question clearly—because what we stand to lose is significant.
Hospital Board Election
I recently took the opportunity to attend a District 2 Hospital Board candidate forum conducted by Mr. Sam Usem and Dr.
Congressional District 8
Minnesota’s huge 8th Congressional District includes Cook, Lake and St. Louis counties.
COUNTY CONNECTIONS
The Importance of Testing Private Wells in Cook County, Minnesota
Political signs can’t be placed in the right-of-way
Karen Kobey obviously doesn’t know that political signs are not allowed in the right-of-way of highways. I watched a Minnesota State Employee pick up several illegally-placed signs recently. Don’t be so quick to blame Trump supporters!
An update for second home owners and how their health insurance works
Cook County is the home of Sawtooth Mountain Clinic (SMC) and North Shore Health (NSH) Together they provide quality health care and services. SMC even has a full-service pharmacy.
As I See It
My crystal ball has developed a headache. It’s having an anxiety attack trying to figure out what I should support today that I can pay for tomorrow.
BEYOND REASON
My relationship with a broom usually goes like this: I see many somethings on the floor I dislike; I go get a broom; I use that broom to sweep up those dislikable many somethings; I realize I should have brought a dustpan to the party; I hunt for that dustpan because no one ever puts it away; I finally locate said dustpan in an inexplicable place (the garage?!); I sweep up the dislikable debris; I return the broom to whence it lives; walking out the door I realize I forgot to put the dustpan away and promise to put it away later; then I don’t think about a broom until the next time I see terribleness on the floor. But the other day I had a broom and was sweeping leaves and sticks off our front steps.
