Care Center de-licensing 10 beds
In a curious twist of funding reality, sometimes less business can bring more money. Because of this, the North Shore Care Center has applied to de-license 10 of its beds, lowering its capacity to 37. Skilled nursing homes in Minnesota are required to pay a Minnesota bed surcharge of approximately $2,815 a year for each licensed bed, whether it is […]
Arrowhead Electric closer to broadband groundbreaking
Arrowhead Electric Cooperative, Inc. (AECI) has had an overwhelming response to its request for people to sign-up if they are interested in eventually receiving broadband Internet service from the cooperative. As of June 27, 2011, over 550 homeowners, cabin owners, and businesses had submitted preregistration forms. Installation of fiber optic cable on the West End of the county is slated […]
Plethora of pigeons poses problems for businesses, city council
Some Grand Marais business people attended city council’s June 29 meeting to talk about the sudden proliferation of pigeons downtown, and ask what the city could do about the problem. “We’ve always dealt with the sea gulls, but now we have 70 to 100 pigeons on our building,” said Jean Mathis of Security State Bank. She said the pigeons, which […]
Gravel roads still unstable after long winter
The Pike Lake Road, along with several other county roads, is still in bad condition after a long winter, and residents are wondering when the Cook County Highway Department will get it back into shape. “We keep trying,” Maintenance Supervisor Russell Klegstad told the county board on June 28, “and we keep hurting it.” Some of the county’s dirt roads […]
The importance of the Internet
It annoys me that the world has determined the Internet important enough to capitalize its name. For many years I stubbornly refused to acknowledge my computer spellchecker’s recommendation to change the word from internet with a lowercase “i” to Internet with an uppercase “I.” I waged a personal battle, refusing to recognize the importance of the massive system of interconnected […]
It’s all garbage
As another summer unfolds, the business owners along Highway 61 that provide services to the public must once again foot the bill for all their garbage. From the people who come out of the woods, to the cabin dwellers, to the motorists who walking to your facility and handing you their trash, all seem to have large bags of God […]
Water quality efforts pay off on Caribou Lake
The Cook County Coalition of Lake Associations (CCCoLA) wishes to commend the Caribou Lake Association and lakeshore property owners for bringing all septic systems into 100% compliance with the county code. The Caribou Lake Association has proactively sought ways to improve lake water quality and are well on the way to doing so especially now with all the problem septics […]
Federal deficits our nation’s greatest threat
Federal government spending and the resulting deficits are perhaps the greatest dangers to the future of our republic. As a constitutionalist it is relatively easy for me to suggest areas where federal spending can be cut. By reviewing Article 1, Section 8 and the 10th Amendment of the Constitution one can see that the federal government has grown far beyond […]