The International Falls City Council Monday agreed to implement a 5-percent franchise fee on cable television subscriber bills.

I didn’t grow up here, in what I tell friends and family is truly paradise. But many times throughout the more than 20 years I have lived here I wish I had been born and raised in Borderland.

A motion to support a flat fee of adding 85 cents to Koochiching County residents’ cable bills died for lack of support by the county board Tuesday.