Letters: My quest for a state-supplied water filter continues on

Tainted On June 5, 2025, I received a letter from the Minnesota Department of Health that our well water contained PFAS and exceeded the recommended level. The letter stated that I qualified for the installation of a GAC filter installation. I filled out the required paperwork and I have verified with MPCA that they did receive it in June 2025. In July 2025, I called the MPCA because I had heard nothing from them. The neighbor down the street had his filter installed the week before. I was told by MPCA that they control the “list” and my name was on that list but not sent to the installer, which was Culligan in Stillwater. I emailed MPCA again on Sept. 30, 2025, to verify the address they had, because we live in West Lakeland Township, where all the residents have their own well and septic system. Although my mailing address is Lake Elmo, we do not live in Lake Elmo. I was told my paperwork did show we lived in West Lakeland Township. Still no word from anyone. So on March 19, 2026, I again emailed MPCA to ask about our filter and was told the filter installation is taking around a year. Well, it is now a year and still no filter. It’s especially aggravating when today I find out someone also in West Lakeland Township will get their filter in three months. Only thing is, their paperwork was submitted months after my paperwork was submitted. Is this superfund money that was to go towards installing filters for the home owners also turning into a Minnesota Fraud issue? — Karen Purcell, West Lakeland Township Our new Bizarro World In the D.C. comics, Bizarro World referred to a universe with everything opposite of what we consider normal. That is; Good is Evil and Evil is good. That seems to be the new norm in America and the world. Consider: In Texas, a teenager murders another teenager at a track meet. The victim is unarmed. The killer uses a knife. But many people, including politicians, feel that the guilty party is the dead teenager while the killer is the victim. What a bizarre sense of justice! And it becomes racial because the victim is white and the killer is black. So that makes murder okay? What a terrible standard to live by. A couple of years ago, a healthcare CEO is murdered, shot in the back by a coward and the killer becomes a folk hero in the eyes of people who have an issue with executives in the healthcare industry. Talk about Bizarro World! Charlie Kirk, who never advocated violence and talked to college students about people getting along, is assassinated and many on the Left celebrate his death. Unreal. And the president of the United States has been the target of several assassination attempts and late night “comedians” joke about it. Thousands of illegal immigrants enter America with criminal records in their home countries and commit terrible crimes in America. But when ICE agents try to capture, jail and deport these threats to society, ICE agents become the bad guys and illegal criminals become the “nice, poor innocent victims.” Does this sort of reasoning really make sense to anyone? Even the Left? On the world scene, the small country of Israel has been fighting for survival since its founding in the late 1940s. They are surrounded by a sea of hostility which openly calls for the elimination of the Jewish state. But on college campuses in America and in countries around the world, Jews and Israel are the bad guys for trying to survive, and the radical Muslims, especially the Palestinians who carry out constant attacks and murders on Israelis and Jews around the world, are the victims of Israeli Jewish aggression. Welcome to the new Bizarro World we now live in. — Tom R. Kovach, Nevis Is this patriotism? A letter writer attended the recent State Republican Convention in Duluth and he is confused about why there is any controversy about the “moment of silence” for convicted murderer, Derek Chauvin. He states that he did not hear what the prayer was for, but of course as with all MAGA people, who don’t get the facts, he just stood and went along. Speaking of President Trump toadies, U.S representative from the the 6th district, Tom Emmer, weighed in with a comment to the effect of why are people upset about a show of patriotism and support for law enforcement? Congressman, please tell us what choking a handcuffed man to death, has to do with patriotism and support for law enforcement? — Tom Leary, Mendota Heights Boelter has already pleaded guilty Why, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty? Why are you bringing all these state charges against Vance Boelter? He is a cold blooded killer, and has confessed to being so, and has been sentenced to two consecutive life sentences plus 40 years in federal prison. He will die in federal prison, and that is just. And every second of his time and every meal he has will be paid for by that federal system. Related Articles Letters: Where St. Paul’s money comes from Prayers, remembrances for three workers fatally shot at St. Paul Highland Park apartment office Suspect in triple murder ‘executed’ apartment workers when he couldn’t cancel parking contract, charges say Former St. Thomas student, now deported, sentenced for sneaking into girl’s home, groping her St. Paul triple homicide victims identified, suspect arrested 200 miles north Why are you going to spend thousands of Hennepin County tax dollars to pursue essentially a duplicate prosecution that will in no way affect his circumstance? Why not direct your staff to use those resources to prosecute some of the feral youth that terrorize with gun violence? Better yet, why not use those dollars to put additional Hennepin County Deputies in the community to prevent crime? One of the reasons you cite for going forward is that state convictions would not be subject to a presidential pardon or commutation. I doubt there is enough Big Mac special sauce in the universe to make even our current occupant of the White House delusional enough to even consider such a course. And should that absurdity occur, as there is no statute of limitations on murder in Minnesota, charges could be brought at that time. Years ago I decided I didn’t want to live in Hennepin County because of what I thought an increasingly burdensome tax system and poor delivery of services. This yet another ratification of that decision. — Andy Lynn, Mendota Heights