What can we do?
President Obama announced that we need a $1,200,000,000,000 increase in the already huge national debt. This amounts to about a $4,000 increase for each of us. Two questions: 1. What are President Obama’s, Al’s, Amy’s and Chip’s thoughts on who, when and how the national debt is going to be paid off (not to mention the accruing national liabilities.) 2. What can we, the people, due to make governing us less expensive?
Shanty vs. fish house
The article about open water on Gull Lake mentioned a shanty floating in the water. Us Minnesotans up here call those fish houses, not shanties.
It’s cold outside
Those with the outdoor dogs, please remember to bring them in. It’s very cold out there and there’s no dog that should be outside all the time.
Helping joblessness
Why doesn’t the county and the city give BLAEDC another $300,000 or $400,000 so they can hold meetings weekly on how bad the unemployment is in Brainerd? Can anyone possibly prove what they’ve accomplished with the hundreds of thousands dollars of tax money they’ve received? And we manage to be the highest unemployment in the state for four years? Somebody’s getting scammed.
Not a trash can
Cigarette butts are made from acetate and take as long as 25 years to decompose. They leach toxic chemicals into the land and water in the process. Yet almost every day I see people in Brainerd and Baxter throw their cigarette butts out their car windows. Stop it. Our community is not your trash can.
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Add commentCo-op school sports
Does the Brainerd School district realize how they are affecting kids when they decided to close the co-op between schools for different sports??? How many years have they been co-oping with schools, letting the kids build relationships and have a chance at different sports and then just like that, cut it off? Or decide the schools need to pay an outragous amount (like $1000 or $1500) per student to be able to continue being part of a team they have been with for years?? Talking with other parents it seems they are not in agreement with the board's decision either, does the school board listen to the parents they are representing???
Butt Heads
Not to mention the fire hazard and the $500 fine for littering.
My favorite
Ice shanty, ice shack, fish house, shack, bobhouse, or ice hut all the same so get over yourself.
I wish I could do a citizens arrest for every single cigarette butt that I see being thrown thru the window of a moving car or one at a stop light
I_disagree
See something, say something. Call your local Department of Homeland Security officer. There's one at the CWC Sheriff's department.
And, Timothy:
"does the school board listen to the parents they are representing???"
No, but maybe they are beginning to listen to the tax payers.
Last time I checked parents
Last time I checked parents were tax payers too. What does that have to do with kids participating in sports that already exist and that the co-op students from other schools paying the same athletic fee have to do with listening to tax payers??? There was more revenue coming in from co-ops helping the school cover costs. The kids coming from other schools had to pay the $250-$500 athletic fee, should make the tax payers happy to have that extra money coming in for something that already exists!