Hello, readers.
Well, it’s been a busy three weeks here at the Monitor, as we get rolling on our journalistic enterprise. Investigating all sorts of stories, we’ve visited offices in...
On August 8, 2017, Duluth Mayor Emily Larson unveiled a new funding proposal for the city’s long-suffering streets: If the state of Minnesota would allow the city to enact...
One year ago, in July of 2018, Des Moines residents Nick and Amy Pellegrin rented a vacation cottage on Wisconsin’s Madeline Island. It was their first visit to the...
July 1, 2019
Erik Simonson: This is Erik Simonson, returning your
call.
John Ramos: Oh yeah, great. Thanks for getting back.
ES: Absolutely.
JR: So I wasn’t aware that we were going to be...
Duluth’s Medical District is shaped like a backwards L, extending from 3rd Avenue East to 12th Avenue East on the long side, and from Superior Street to 6th Street...
Things aren’t looking too great for border vigilante Jim Benvie. The native Duluthian, as I wrote last week, had been making waves by posting Facebook videos of militia members...
In October 2025, the Monitor and other media outlets reported that the City of Hermantown had been paving the way to establish a 1.8-million-square-foot...
The creation of all types of housing (single-family, apartments, condos)—at affordable, market-rate, and high-end price points—has long been a policy objective for the City...