Publisher’s Desk
Hello, readers.
Six months have passed since the Duluth Monitor began its journalistic
adventure, and things are going well. City councilors no longer respond to our
emails, the mayor refuses to comment...
Duluth residents contribute 24 percent of tourism tax fund
On Dec. 9, 2019, the Duluth City Council considered a
$235,000 bailout for Spirit Mountain. The money was proposed to come from the
city’s tourism tax fund. Among the citizens who...
Officials seek home for harbor dredge material
Each year, the Army Corps of Engineers hires contractors to dredge about 100,000 cubic yards of sediment from 19 miles of shipping lanes within the Duluth-Superior harbor, and they’re...
Snow job: How Duluth was sold on Spirit Mountain
At the Duluth City Council’s
agenda session of Dec. 5, 2019, councilors were presented with a surprise resolution
granting an emergency bailout to Spirit Mountain. According to Spirit Mountain
Executive Director Brandy...
City gets creative in subsidizing zoo
On Dec. 9, 2019, the Duluth City Council will consider Resolution 850, a “Resolution Authorizing Agreement Amendment to the Line of Credit Promissory Note for the Arrowhead Zoological Society.”...
Struggling operations routinely max out lines of credit
In addition to providing direct subsidies and emergency bailouts to struggling operations, the city of Duluth has another financial tool at its disposal: line of credit (LOC) disbursements. These...
