Do you think that Koochiching County Engineer Doug Grindal was justified for successfully seeking $ MILLIONS in taxpayer funds from the state …
I would be curious to get other peoples opinion of new county road 102. Wheter or not they think this was taxpayer money well spent?
Historically, before the railroad I believe there was a creek that ran south from the west end of the Falls city beach which meandered through the southeast section of Ranier (by the statue) and continued into the creek across from the Ranier city park that used to flow by Mcarthy's fish house.
I would like to see the data pertaining to precipitation from 1910 to 2014.
I can't believe there would be that much more water the last 15 years compared to the previous 90 since the dam was established. As Carl well knows there comes a point of diminishing returns of being a "doc…
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Here's an observation. Why should the county dictate what's valuable to a person and what's not. Property owners are all trying to save what's important to them. Say a person who lives on 8th street with no family or other connection to a lakefront owner is schlep…
As a person using my truck, gas and labor to deliver sand bags to many people today (from Ranier to Birch Point) I was deeply offended by the personal comments of Commissioner Brian Mcbride to myself. The commissioner said "too many people are busting their butts to put sand bags at Ra…
For he first 90 years of the reservoir system on Rainy, Namakan, Kab etc the system was managed in a fairly predictable way. The last 15 years not so. Crib docks are almost a way of the past because it makes no sense to keep rebuilding them without some sort of hydraulic system to raise …
When Dale Johnson filed to be on the EDA board via a one sentence email on the last day that applications were accepted it was almost treated by EDA chairman Mike Katrin as the second coming of Christ. Katrin compared him to Warren Buffet. The Journal went silent even though a very capable …
It's not about bashing any one individual. It's about transparency in city and county governments. Personally I think the real BS is going on at the county level. Not everyone can attend a county board meeting at 10:30 am on a Tuesday. Board members have said in the past that the taxpaye…
Not so long ago there were 4 private import/export (custom brokers) businesses in Ranier employing many people...now there is one because they can all do their business for China/Canada remotely. For eons (decades) a trusted 8th district House rep chaired the most powerful House Transpor…
Hi Laurel,
I have viewed the 3 applications. All nice people but...
One candidate (summertime resident and nice person) was selected based on a cover letter sent February 27...way before the May 7 and 10 published ads for the positions.
Another candidate (again nice person) …
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Three days ago I was cut off by commissioner Brian McBride from getting any more sandbags for our dock and deck which supports our resort outbuilding. Guess you have to be a party member. Or the commissioner doesn't realize what a resort needs to do business.