City of Duluth utility operations crews are repairing a water main located at 1511 N 53rd Avenue W. Water is turned off on between N 53rd avenue W and Albion Street and Columbia Street to N Central Avenue. The duration of the repair is unknown at this time. Crews are working to repair the break and restore water service as quickly as possible.
The City of Duluth administration cannot warn taxpayers about a projected $5.5 million deficit while refusing to explain a recurring $4.5 million funding stream redirected from general operations. The account now has nearly $9 million.
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.
Early-term labor agreements, sluggish revenue growth and familiar levy politics have left City Hall confronting a projected $5.5 million deficit.
DULUTH, Minn. — Duluth police cited a 20-year-old Hermantown man after investigators identified him as one of four people allegedly involved in dumping soap into the Fountain of the Wind in Canal Park. Travis Sundberg was issued a citation for public nuisance, police said Tuesday. Three other people believed
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DULUTH, Minn. — Willie Howard has been named head coach of the Minnesota Monsters and will continue serving as the team’s general manager, owner Jacob Lambert announced. The appointment is effective immediately and gives Howard responsibility for the team’s front-office operations and on-field performance. “Willie has demonstrated
