Superior stocks up on UV light bulbs for wastewater treatment plant
On Feb. 1, 2024, at the regular meeting of Superior’s Public Works Committee, Public Works Director Todd Janigo explained why the city’s wastewater treatment plant had recently ordered an...
Community Action Duluth retaliates against whistleblowers, ignores transparency laws, censors the press
For a year and a half, the nonprofit organization Community Action Duluth (CAD) has had a new executive director, Classie Dudley. Ms. Dudley’s tenure at the organization has been...
City of Superior purchases Bunge Dock
On Oct. 5, 2023, the Superior City Council authorized the $200,000 purchase of the Bunge Dock, the easternmost docking facility in Allouez Bay. The property is a long, narrow...
Abundant remnants of Duluth’s first railroad overlooked in Jay Cooke Park
If you were traveling to Duluth from St. Paul in 1870, only one railroad could get you there: the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad (LSMR), commonly known as the...
Two Harbors “visionary” faces fraud allegations, lawsuits
It’s been a tough couple of months for Paul Croft and Jonathan Frost, owners of the Croft & Frost accounting firm in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
On Sept. 12, 2023, without notice,...
More violations: Riverwest “hotel” operation has no hotel license
The Monitor first reported on the Riverwest vacation-rental development, in West Duluth, on Sept. 22, 2023. We noted that they were missing required permits and we wondered about their...
