To the Monitor:
Nice work on your article about the half-percent sales tax red flags. There are only a very small handful of reporters in town actually digging and holding...
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...
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...
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...
EDIT, 2019-09-17. The $10 million in the headline will come from both sales tax and utility funds, not just sales tax. This article has been gaining renewed traction lately,...
On
June 11, 2019, Deputy Planning Director Adam Fulton updated the Duluth Planning
Commission on the city’s efforts to develop standards for tiny houses.
According
to The Tiny Life, a website that promotes...
On March 26, 2025, the Duluth Economic Development Authority (DEDA) approved an eighth amendment to the Lakeview Tower development agreement, thereby allowing for 34...
On April 8, 2025, the board of supervisors meeting Lakeside, Wisconsin, was unusually crowded. Citizens were concerned because longtime Town Clerk Ruthann Schnepper had...
Michelle Fischbach has been the U.S. Representative for Minnesota’s 7th Congressional District, the state’s largest district, since 2021. Prior to that, she served for...
On Jan. 21, 2025, two felony charges were filed against Itasca County Court Administrator Heather Porterfield for allegedly embezzling money from a student fundraising...