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Readers Write: COVID in Minnesota, legalizing marijuana, Al Milgrom Outstate is different. It s worse. December 25, 2020 6:00pm Text size Copy shortlink: A recent letter writer took Gov. Tim Walz to task for treating rural Minnesota the same way as the seven-county metro area ( Outstate is not the metro, Readers Write, Dec. 21). To illustrate her point, she contends that the current restaurant closure restrictions are overly burdensome to small-town restaurants. Her letter ends with, The DFL better wake up and realize it is different in the outstate areas. I agree with that statement, but I suspect not for the same reason. According to the Minnesota Department of Health weekly COVID-19 report from Dec. 17, more than 20 of the top Minnesota counties with the highest COVID case rates per 10,000 residents are outstate counties. As for testing, out of the 18 counties with the highest positivi ....
VENICE – Early this COVID-19 pandemic summer John Dale and his wife Beata were sitting around with their friends Monika Piwowarska and her husband Roy Cook, talking about what they like about Venice. The Dales moved here from Murrieta, California, which is inland midway between San Diego and Los Angeles, and became friendly with Piwowarska – the Realtor who found their house – and her husband partly because both women are Polish and both men are roughly the same age. One thing led to another and the idea of developing Shark Tooth Vodka came to light. Two months later, the thoughts became a little more serious and Dale started calling distilleries, to see how likely that idea could become a reality. ....