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As I have written about over the past few weeks, new ideas, technologies or even recipes seem to move faster than our ability to understand the impact they will have on our lives. A good new recipe, for example, will cause me to shift my eating habits toward repeating said good new recipe many times over in a short while, often to the point of exhaustion.
One Good Home for Everyone Like many others, I feel distressed about the growing wealth gap between lower and upper socio-economic classes, a phenomenon that has plagued our country in the last few decades. Homes are one focal point of inequity.
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We are in a climate emergency. Our summers are shorter and hotter. Our winters are irregular. Parts of Two Harbors smell of gas, and pollution. None of this will get better until we do something about it. We don’t want our children living in a polluted world, overcrowded with trash.
Editor’s note: Yes, the Great March for Community Newspapers still awaits the parachute jump signal from the very reluctant editor and Tony Xzcerlippy of Tony’s Underwater Limousine Service (Lake County Press- -editions 2-5). And yes, in recalling an earlier skydiving incident in which the reluctant editor was stuck flying an old plane that he didn’t know how to fly, Hell Yes! arrived and will assist in landing the plane and will be recruited as Grand Marshall of the Great March for Community Newspapers and reconnect with old friends.
The “Free” Speech Dilemma I’m gonna come in from the woods this week and talk about something that has been bugging me for a while, something that is eating away at the very bonds that keep us Americans united. We seem to live in a time when the idea of “free speech” means “I can say whatever I please, whenever I want, no matter what”.
We are on the doorstep of the 2022 Stanley Cup tournament and suffice it to say that the excitement level in The State of Hockey is running pretty high right now! We have two of the hottest scorers in the NHL at this time and one of the best teams since mid-March. The WILD is 18-0-4 since then and that began right after a relatively poor stretch of play by the team. I think it’s safe to say that the team has ironed out some of their playing issues and additionally, the players obtained at this year’s trade deadline have all contributed in one way or another.
I had a chance to visit with a concerned citizen from the Alger Grade about a recently discussed cell tower proposal, not the first such proposal and not the last in this world of hand held devices and the internet.
In 2013, our family was sailing into Cape May, New Jersey, on a blustery, chilling day. There were logs sticking up out of the brown water where we were headed, and Mark was up at the bow with our flip-phone, calling the nearest marina and trying (quickly!) to find out if we had enough room to anchor between deadfalls. After a moment, he walked back to where I sat at the wheel in a bit of a daze. “The phone broke.” He held out half the phone to illustrate. The other half was in the deep.