LAST WEEK, THE HOUSE PASSED LEGISLATION TO BAN ASSAULT WEAPONS, AND END THE SALE OF SOME OF THE MOST POPULAR RIFLES IN THE COUNTRY. CONGRESSWOMAN MICHELLE FISHBACH, ON FRIDAY, SPOKE IN DEFENSE OF 2ND AMENDMENT RIGHTS SAYING THAT “DEMOCRATS ARE NO LONGER DISGUISING THEIR RADICAL AGENDA”…”AND THEY WILL DO EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO BAN GUNS IN THIS COUNTRY…”.
A PRIMARY ELECTION IN ROSEAU COUNTY IS ONLY DAYS AWAY, NEXT TUESDAY, AUGUST 9. THE FIELD FOR A DISTRICT 1 COUNTY COMMISSIONER WILL BE NARROWED DOWN TO TWO, FROM FIVE. THOSE ARE GLENDA PHILLIPE, DEAN BYFUGLIEN, KEVIN BRUCE, ALAN JOHNSTON, AND SHANE HORNER.
THE SAME WILL HAPPEN, LOOKING FOR A DISTRICT 3 COMMISSIONER. CURRENTLY THERE ARE THREE CANDIDATES, JOE TESAREK, LEVI NOVACEK, AND BRENT WALSH.
IN THE MOST RECENT CENSUS, NEARLY 10 MILLION PEOPLE IDENTIFIED AS NATIVE AMERICAN, AND 87% JUMP FROM 2010. OF THOSE PEOPLE, ABOUT 6 MILLION ARE MULTI-RACIAL, AND MANY THROUGH NORTHERN MINNESOTA ARE RECONNECTING WITH THEIR SCANDINAVIAN HERITAGE. A SOCIOLOGIST AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA SAID IT’S A GOOD THING THAT MORE PEOPLE AER WILLING TO EMBRACE THEIR NATIVE HISTORY. THE GRAND FORKS HERALD HAS A STORY ON MELISSA WALLS, WHO GREW UP IN INTERNATIONAL FALLS, THEY DAUGHTER OF AN ANISHINAABE MOTHER AND SWEDISH-AMERICAN DAD. IN 2019, SHE TOOK PART IN A SWEDISH REALITY TELEVISION SHOW, TRACING ANCESTRY.
A CASS COUNTY INMATE IS CHARGED WITH ASSAULTING A DEPUTY INSIDE THE JAIL’S MAXIMUM SECURITY HOUSING. 27-YEAR OLD JEFFREY CONFRESI ASSAULTED THE PEACE OFFICER ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND IS CHARGED WITH A CLASS B FELONY. HE WAS BEING HELD ON BURGLARY CHARGES. THE DEPUTY WAS SENT TO A HOSPITAL FOR INJURIES, BUT HAS BEEN RELEASED AND IS ON MEDICAL LEAVE.
39 YEAR OLD JASON JOEY BERRY, OF MONTREAL, PLEADED GUILTY TO CONSPIRACY TO DISTRIBUTE FENTANYL AND IMPORT IT INTO THE UNITED STATES. BERRY IS CONSIDERING A RINGLEADER IN THE FENTANYL OPERATION THAT SAW THE DRUG SHIPPED FROM CHINA, THROUGH CANADA, AND INTO THE U.S. THE RING CONTRIBUTED TO 15 OVERDOES, 4 FATAL, INCLUDING THE 2015 DEATH OF AND 18 YEAR OLD IN GRAND FORKS.
WARROAD SUMMER THEATER HAS A SECOND WEEK OF SHOWS OF “THE SOUND OF MUSIC” THIS WEEK, WEDNESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY AT THE WARROAD SCHOOL THEATRE. TICKETS ARE $15 OR $13 WITH A SENIOR OF CHILD DISCOUNT.
PARTS OF MINNESOTA ARE IN A SEVERE DROUGHT ONCE AGAIN THIS SUMMER, AS ABOVE AVERAGE TEMPS AND LOWER THAN AVERAGE RAINFALL DRY OUT THE CENTRAL PART OF THE STATE, BUT IT ISN’T THE CASE IN THE NORTH. SOME AREAS CLASSIFIED AS ABNORMALLY DRY STRETCH TO AREAS AROUND DULUTH, BUT NORTH OF THAT THERE HASN’T BEEN A CONCERN. OF COURSE, THE WET SPRING DID BRING THE PROBLEM OF FLOODING TO REGION INSTEAD.
GOVERNOR TIM WALZ IS ONCE AGAIN BRINGING UP THE IDEA OF GETTING THE LEGISLATURE TO RETURN FOR A SPECIAL SESSION TO TAKE UP THE IDEA OF $1000 REBATE CHECKS FOR MINNESOTANS, THAT WOULD USE PART OF THE STATE’S HISTORIC $9 BILLION SURPLUS. WALZ SAYS IT’S “UNCONSCIONABLE THAT WE ARE SITTING ON MONEY IN THE BANK OF MINNESOTA AND IT COULD GO BACK TO FAMILIES RIGHT NOW”. HE SAID HE’D LIKE TO HEAR MORE FROM THE PEOPLE, AS TO WHETHER THEY THINK IT’S A GOOD IDEA.
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