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To have seen the young couple and their dog posing on the beach and at the Rose Garden in Duluth last weekend, you might have thought they were getting engagement photos taken.
Which is ironic, because Tria and Phil Isaacson eloped to Duluth last fall. The Brainerd couple chose to spend the money they would have spent on their wedding to provide treatment for their four year old dog, Lilah.
Lilah enjoying her weekend getaway
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Now it s back.
But the non-profit Live Like Roo Foundation understands what they re going through. One of the ways they support people and their companion animals at this time is through an arm of the foundation that helps folks make a bucket list for their beloved four-legged . and start checking things off it.
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This week, the Duluth City Council unanimously approved adding a third deputy police chief tasked with, among other things, a focus on police accountability.
But Jamey Sharp, the founder of what he calls the grassroots data group LEANDuluth, says whether it s 50 new deputy chiefs or one new chief, it doesn t matter if they re not willing to look outside the police department itself for answers.
He s particularly concerned about use of force incidents from 2019, which showed police employing force with Black Duluthians 19 times more often than with white residents, and ten times more often with Native Americans.
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We ve all shared the Facebook memes and posts about some plot to kidnap women and how they need to be aware of this and take X, Y and Z steps to be safe. That s just being thoughtful, right? But people who work with victim-survivors say we re perpetuating the idea that the only way you can be trafficked is if a stranger kidnaps you, or that only adult women are trafficked.
And when we do that, we re ignoring the people -
young people: boys and girls 12-14 years old - who ARE being trafficked in our community.