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Grand Marais waterfront came alive last Saturday at 11 a.m. as half a dozen sailboats lined up just outside the harbor wall and with the blast of an air horn, started racing for Thunder Bay. The International Yacht Race is one of the oldest sailboat races on Lake Superior beginning in the late 1960’s. The sailboats were 30 feet to […]
Border to Border Route, part two
While there has been years of planning for a border-to-border touring route through Minnesota’s state, federal, township, and county back roads, three counties, three townships and the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior are opposed to a route going through their roads, and instead have asked the Minnesota DNR to have the proposed roads for the course bypass them. That […]
ATV travel to be allowed on most of the Gunflint Trail
Based on the recommendation and support of the Public Safety Transportation Committee and the Cook County Parks & Trails Commission, along with many letters of support from the community and a 5-2 vote in favor from the planning commission, Cook County commissioners voted 5-0 in favor of adopting the proposed amendments to the ATV ordinance that will now open up […]
City council wants to hear from the public about proposed calendar parking
The Grand Marais City Council will hold a public hearing to talk about a proposed calendar parking ordinance, and will also consider a request from the Grand Marais Business Coalition for additional parking limits and signage near the downtown area at their next meeting. The council meeting will start at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 31 in the Council Chambers […]
Rep. Ecklund visits Cook County
Rep. Rob Ecklund, District 3A DFL-International Falls, paid a visit to Cook County this past Tuesday. He first met with representatives of the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa in Grand Portage, and then met with the public at the community center. Rob took questions for more than an hour and a half Tuesday evening. When asked about the […]
Intellectual honesty
When it comes to just about any topic, it seems as if the public discourse is dominated by rhetoric, statistical noise or just flat-out propaganda…people pushing and shoving for prominence in the public square or on the printed page. How quickly objectivity is obscured when it threatens to undercut this “messaging” and the “image” that is being pawned. Author Mike […]
We owe it to ourselves to keep the planet in good shape
Thanks Ron Wizykoski for your attempted reading of my letter about hate, I don’t know what your native language is, but perhaps an English comprehension class might help. For the record I called no one a hater, I did however point out hateful actions or words on their parts. Those words and actions were derived directly from their own commentaries; […]
Rumble strips rumble, residents who live close by grumble
The 400 families who live along the 55 mph sections of Highway 61, ask the remaining 2,000 families who live the year round in Cook County for their help for us, and for the 360 families who spend their summer vacations here beside this highway. Most of you, who do not live in this narrow corridor around HY-61, do not […]
Cook County opioid sales for 2006-2012
A year-long legal battle between the Washington Post and the Drug Enforcement Administration resulted in the Washington Post gaining Court ordered access to the DEA’s Automation of Reports and Consolidated Orders System, known as ARCOS. The ARCOS contained all of the data on shipments of oxycodone, and hydrocodone pills to hospitals, pharmacies, and retail pharmacies in the U.S. In an […]