For the past twelve years, mountain bike trail-building has boomed in Duluth. Volunteers with the nonprofit group Cyclists of Gitchee Gumee Shores (COGGS) began the process in 2007, when...
On July 15, 2019, the Duluth News Tribune wrote an editorial criticizing Mayor Emily Larson for not telling citizens that she was using millions of dollars of the new...
A lot of people who work for the government find that when they leave public service, they can continue to draw money from the government by providing consulting services....
On July 9, 2019, the Duluth Planning Commission approved a height variance for a new 98-unit apartment building to be built on South Street, overlooking the freeway and the...
On July 15, 2019, the Duluth News Tribune published a lengthy editorial: “More transparency needed with Duluth’s street improvement program, tax.” In it, the newspaper took Mayor Emily Larson...
On July 15, 2019, the Duluth City Council approved Resolution 508,
which withdrew $250,000 from the Community Investment Trust fund (CIT) and
deposited it into a housing rehabilitation fund. The money...
Dedicated to preserving the memory of environmentalist Sigurd Olson, an Ely nonprofit group has commissioned a local artist to create a mural of Olson,...
In the summer of 2025, while navigating through the City of Duluth’s Parks & Recreation webpage, I encountered the administration’s startling claim that Duluth...
On June 2, 2026, Duluth’s Homegrown Music Festival (HGMF) Co-directors Cory Jezierski and Dereck Murphy-Williams resigned their positions, leaving behind “years of unreported income”...