The Rushford Tri-County Record reports Rep.Walz focuses on problems:
Tim Walz came to Rushford last Saturday morning, asking to get caught up on how the city's residents were faring in the aftermath of the Aug.19 flood.
The First District Congressman from Mankato got an earful from Mayor Les Ladewig, Fire Chief Mike Ebner, and R-P Schools Supt. Chuck Ehler at a small gathering of 10 persons in the high school theater.
The local officials spoke mostly in measured tones, but there was a clear undertone of frustration regarding how government was responding to the city's financial needs and the lack of speed implementing solutions.
Walz, accompanied by aide Meredith Salsbery, said he would try to help the residents' cause the best way he could upon his return to Washington, D.C.
Go read the rest at the Record.
In this week's edition, the editor singles out state representative Ken Tschumper and senator Sharon Ropes in State businesses loan plan greatly improved & adopted:
Local lenders, businesses and financial planners proclaimed it [DEED's original plan] unworkable, and with the help of legislators, particularly Sen. Sharon Ropes and Rep. Ken Tschumper, kept the issue alive by challenging DEED's interpretation of the appropriation in the special legislative session Sept. 11.
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