From a Pastor’s Heart
The Easter season and Spring seem to renew all of us, and inspired columns flow. This week we are abundantly rewarded with the words of two local pastors.
Opinion
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BEYOND REASON
A Great Day for Up Man can get too comfortable on terra firma. It’s cozy here, familiar, solid underfoot.
Local View from 4 Foot 2
Distractions. This weekend I was in line at a drive thru.
Nature Nurtures
Spring bird migration is in full swing and I’d like to share some helpful pointers to keep our returning feathery-friends safe during their journey. When feeding birds, be sure to clean your feeders and bird baths. The bird influenza that devastated many populations last season is still prevalent, and a simple soap and water wash can help reduce transmission. If you’d like to take your cleaning technique a step further you can spray or soak your feeders in a ten percent bleach solution and let it fully dry. Also be sure to rake up the scattered seed from underneath the feeders to help limit congregations of birds feeding where feces collects.
Masked Fan Speaks
My Stanley Cup Bracketology! Have you enjoyed a full regular season of fastpaced NHL hockey action? Well get ready, because the Stanley Cup tournament is here and it will hit the hyper-warp speed activation button shortly! Some casual fans of the game harbor doubt about that being a real 'thing', but come every spring it plays out right before our eyes. Yup, an already fast game will be played even faster.
From the Outside
Outdoor Ed in Higher Ed I’ve been writing this column for over a year now, and if you have been reading it, you have been subject to a small sprinkling of the many and widely varied outdoor adventures I’ve engaged in over the decades. So, how did a kid from north Minneapolis and a family with modest means end up acquiring the skills to do these things? You don't just wake up one morning and embark on a sixweek canoe trip to the Arctic Ocean or engage in some random mountaineering trip on glaciers and remote peaks without having built upon experience, and gaining the skill set required to come back alive.
Capitol Update
When I was elected to represent Northeast Minnesota, I knew we lived in a large house district but I never imagined how truly large it was. It is larger than each of these states: Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont and New Jersey. Most of the land in our area is Federal or State forests, which is a good thing, but there is a lot of land and only about 42,000 people.
Access Press: fifteen notebooks and not the right now
Like many of you, I am always looking for resources to make life easier. I like Disability Hub and the Senior Linkage Line. I also draw on a wide range of websites for information and ideas. Our school days may be behind us, and we may not have been shoved into a locker in years. But we’re never too old to stop learning. And we’re certainly never too old to stop learning what the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has to offer us.
If you pay a CLP bill then you’re a member, representation unequal
Is there anything more American than one person, one vote to elect our officials at all levels who make the decisions that govern? Down to the local level, where amongst other things Cooperative Light & Power's Board of Directors approves changes to the prices that members pay for our electricity.
Why is the CLP board opposed to democracy?
The April 7th Lake County Press report, “Co-op Light and Power seeks member input on representation”, had inaccuracies regarding the recent history of unequal district representation. The CLP CEO and Board President implied that the Board has considered equalization of Districts but had “run out of time” to “evaluate redistricting” or “get this issue on the agenda for a full discussion in April”.