Tourism tax talk
Duluth’s first tourism tax was established on March 17, 1969, by a vote of the City Council. The new tax attached a three percent surcharge to hotel and motel...
$5.4 million of city street and utility money redirected to Medical District from “neighborhoods with greater needs”
Two months ago, when the Monitor alerted the public that Mayor Emily Larson and the state Legislature had earmarked $10 million in street and utility money for the new...
Commissioner Nelson (and mysterious furniture stores) support county buy-local resolution
On Sept. 3, 2019, at the Committee of the Whole meeting of the St. Louis County Board, commissioners considered Resolution 381, which directs county employees “to make every effort...
A walk on Segment Six
In 2016, the city began planning to extend the Western Waterfront Trail 7.5 miles from Riverside to Fond du Lac. To make the job more manageable, they divided the...
Publisher’s Desk
Hello,
readers.
As
we proceed with lifting our journalistic enterprise off the ground, we are pleased
to note that six of the last seven stories published in the Monitor have been
scoops.
We
never used...
City and railroad move forward on rail-with-trail option
On
Aug. 29, 2019, city officials held a stakeholder meeting at the Morgan Park
Community Center to introduce their new vision for the Western Waterfront Trail.
For those who have been following...
