Deb White is running for Cook County Commissioner in District 1, a position now held by Robert Svaleson who decided he didn’t want to run again after serving one term. Deb is running against Yastrianne ‘Yanne’ Spry. The Cook County News-Herald asked White for her views on a few subjects that will. Affect county residents. Below are her answers. Q- […]
Pro-choice rally set for November 2 in Duluth
Area residents concerned about threats to reproductive healthcare access will gather for a “human billboard” signing action and pro-choice rally on Wednesday, November 2, along Duluth’s North Shore. Participants for the hour-long human billboard action will meet at the Clearwater Event Center, 5135 North Shore Dr at 4:30 p.m. We will shuttle to the corner of McQuade Rd. and Highway […]
Lodging taxes down from 2021
County-wide, year-to-date lodging taxes through the end of August are down six percent from same period last year. When comparing apples-to apples, Lutsen/Tofte Tourism Association’s lodging taxes are $767,746.40 through August 2022, down 6.5 percent from 2021 through August. Grand Marais Tourism Association reported a 5.2 percent drop from last year with lodging taxes totaling $277,549.72 through this August. The […]
Senior News
Fall is in the Air Well, fall is leaving us in a real quick hurry. We took every advantage of being out on our patio enjoying the last of the warm sunshine before the snow starts flying. This month we enjoyed armchair travel to Mexico complete with chips and salsa plus burritos for dinner, and a hot game of things […]
Matters of Record
The Cook County News-Herald publishes Matters of Record to inform the public of arraignments and dispositions of criminal cases in which the punishment exceeds $150 and/or ten days in jail and/or includes one year of supervised adult probation. It is the Cook County News-Herald’s policy that this information contains a complete record. Requests for items to be withheld will not […]
What matters to you?
Did you know that only four percent of American voters over 50 believe climate change is the most important issue in this election? I’m appalled. I believe it’s the most crucial issue for all of us, and it continues to worsen. I’m voting for people who will take action on the environment. The issue of most concern to older voters, […]
An existential walk while hunting for grouse
Sorry. I don’t have time to think when I’m on the trail in the woods with my brother either behind or in front of me (we simply do not often walk side-by-side), with “The Baddest Girls in Cook County.” Daphne the English cocker spaniel stopping and staring at me too long, so I cast her off. Foxy the Brittany spaniel […]
Trick or Treat
The evening is coming when children, and I use that term “children” loosely, will come to my door, dressed in costumes that range from cute to the macabre to the barely there. These little people will hold their bag of candy/loot in front of me and utter the phrase “Trick or Treat”. I am not a monster. I will not […]
The day I nearly did the White House Press Briefing
Buyer Beware. This column is memoir, not exploration of 61 oddities. The ties to Highway 61 are thin—the author lives here and we do have flooding. Just ask the Lutsen Resorts two pedestrian bridges. On a 1966 summer day in the rococo Executive Office Building, my phone rings. An aide to Domestic Affairs Advisor Joe Califano says he wants to […]