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April 8, 2021
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Moorhead Mayor Shelly Carlson address a problem that’s grown exponentially throughout the pandemic: scams targeting seniors.
“This is on the rise once again and it could get worse,” Klobuchar said at a press conference Thursday morning.
Older Americans lose an estimated $3 billion every year from financial scams, according to AARP.
The pandemic has only exacerbated the problem.
“Our seniors have been through a lot this year, and this is the last thing that should be happening,” Klobuchar added.
Hulett: Connecting our communities
Moorhead planners are excited for the opportunity to apply for additional grants from various sources for a much-needed bike/pedestrian Red River Bridge at Bluestem. This proposed span would be built above flood level and would not only provide a critical addition to the community trail system, it would greatly improve connectivity with direct access for Bluestem patrons from North Dakota.
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Mike Hulett, opinion columnist for The Forum
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The Greater Minnesota Regional Parks and Trails Commission is designated to carry out system planning and provide recommendations to the Legislature for grants funded by the Legacy Parks & Trails Fund for parks and trails of “regional significance” in counties and cities outside the seven-county metropolitan area. I was honored to serve as one of 13 original commissioners appointed by Governor Dayton in 2013.
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WOODBURY, MN The monumental power failure in Texas caused by unseasonable cold showed how extreme weather can push an electric grid to the brink.
The average U.S. power customer loses electricity for 1.5 to 2 hours annually even before extreme weather events are taken into account, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. As the Texas experience showed, hurricanes, snowstorms, heat waves and other extreme weather events can make such outages dramatically worse.
Customers in Minnesota state experienced 2.50 hours without power in 2019 2.20 fewer hours than the national average of 4.7 hours in 2019, which is the most recent information available, according to the EIA.
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