Post-Bulletin, Austin MN 
From the board room to the court room, progress on Mower County’s proposed justice center happened almost together Wednesday.
Mower County Board members unanimously approved a resolution on a financing plan for the justice center, including preparing documents for the project’s first loan — a $10 million bond for court facilities.
Other bonding or borrowing — not until at least early next year — would pay for the Read the rest of this entry »

The province needs to bring back a health-care enforcement system scrapped nearly two decades ago if it is to avoid infectious-disease scares like the one that came to light in High Prairie this week, says Alberta Liberal Leader Kevin Taft.
“What I believe we need to do is return to a system that was in place before about 1993, in which the department of health had units of specialized staff who actually visited every facility in the province, monitored Read the rest of this entry »