Municipality
City Council fails to make hard decision on Spirit Mountain
At the May 26, 2020 meeting of the Duluth City Council, held remotely via Webex from Duluth City Hall, the Council was tasked with approving Spirit Mountain’s annual budget....
Evidence suggests urban bow hunt has reduced Duluth’s deer population
Duluth’s annual urban bow hunt was established by the City Council in 2005, in response to growing concern about the number of deer within city limits. The police chief...
Parks Division loses two-thirds of maintenance workforce
Two weeks ago, Duluth Mayor Emily Larson announced that, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the city could lose as much as $38 million from its $93 million general fund...
Breakwaters, piers make Park Point erosion worse
Park Point is a seven-mile-long sandbar which reaches out from Duluth toward Wisconsin, separating Lake Superior and the mouth of the St. Louis River. Its companion across the bay...
Study finds no dog E. coli in Keene Creek
Escherichia coli (E. coli) is a bacterium found in human and animal feces which can make people sick if ingested. E. coli is also an environmental marker which alerts...
Notes on the pandemic
Nine days ago, when we last wrote in this space, the U.S. death toll from the coronavirus was 775. Since then, it has doubled nearly three times; at present,...
