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Duluth residents should not accept a budget narrative built only around the bad news. Transparency requires more than explaining the size of the shortfall. It requires identifying every option, every revenue decision and every pool of existing or reasonably anticipated financial capacity.
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Early-term labor agreements, sluggish revenue growth and familiar levy politics have left City Hall confronting a projected $5.5 million deficit.
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Pat Francisco turned a Saturday morning idea into a Duluth landmark
The Duluth Heritage Sports Center did not begin with a consultant’s study, a formal government resolution or a carefully staged news conference. The project that transformed a scarred industrial property into one of Duluth’s most important community gathering places began, in large part, with a Saturday morning telephone
Tim Meyer: Lester Park Golf Course Redevelopment Observations
Tim Meyer is a Duluth architect and community builder. Reach him at tim.meyer@meyergroupduluth.com Observations from this week's discussions on the Redevelopment of the Lester Park Golf Course seem again to be off point. Rather than show the leadership needed to come up with a solid