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Roni Dauer We want to offer a big thank you to Roni Dauer for her 47 years of service with CER. Dauer’s commitment to the program and the people she worked with is a big part of what it means to be part of a thriving community. Dauer clearly enjoyed her work and while we’re sorry to see ...

Maybe Trump was right about COVID origins

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Former president Donald Trump always took great pains when talking about COVID-19 to call it the “Chinese flu.” He claimed he had intelligence reports that said the virus had been developed in a Wuhan, China clinic, that it escaped, and that the Chinese government ignored its existence ...

Good news on COVID-19 front

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Minnesota had a good weekend with the COVID-19 news. Active cases are down to 5,720, our lowest point since mid-September. The number of hospitalized patients is down, and the number of new hospitalizations is falling. No new deaths due to COVID-19 were reported in the state on Monday. Brown ...

Need for police force becoming apparent

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Attitudes in America toward police forces and police tactics have been mixed and confusing in the past year. So it has been in Minneapolis this past year. Since the killing of George Floyd a year ago, there has been a push to defund the police, to dissolve the police force and replace it with ...

End of a truly unusual school year

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Graduation season is upon us, and the 2020-21 school year is coming to a close. This has been a school year like few others, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. There was some wonder at the beginning of the year how it would work to bring hundreds of students together in classrooms at a time when ...

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New Marijuana Bill Medical marijuana has been an issue in Minnesota, largely due to the fact that the cannabis law has been so restrictive. Recently Minnesota lawmakers voted to expand the law to allow patients to smoke the plant. Normally it has only been allowed in the form of liquid, oils, ...