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...
Monaco Air owner proposes new city-financed airplane hangar
Monaco Air was established at the Duluth airport in 2005, when Don Monaco purchased North Country Aviation and renamed it. Monaco was from Chicago; he had become interested in...
Hiking the Skally Line
The Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad (LSMR) opened for
business on August 1, 1870, when the ceremonial last spike was driven in at
Thomson, near the great falls that today are...
Zoo spends 17.5 percent of emergency bailout money on lobbyist
On Oct. 9, 2017, by a vote of 6-2, the Duluth City Council approved a second $200,000 bailout for the Lake Superior Zoo. This money was in addition to...
