Roseau Times-Region - Serving Roseau County for over 100 Years - The Official Roseau County Newspaper

Down in Florida last weekend, Tallahassee Slim, a local celebrity up here, touted Pakistani Pete, who runs a popular convenience store in Fort Myers where all these elderly Republicans with walkers spend the winter.

If the temp drops to anywhere under 50 degrees, the old coots just about freak out.

Slim is in the best physical shape of anyone in this gated community where, if they see a person of color, say a Somali, they immediately think like Sheldon Larson and wish they had an arsenal of semi-automatic weapons.

Alas, it's usually a Cuban inside the compound to pick up the trash or trim t...