City of Duluth search for new city administrator now underway
“It has been a privilege to have spent this year assisting in getting Mayor Reinert’s administration up and running.” -- Current city administrator David Montgomery
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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’s budget debate is missing millions
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.
The bill comes due: Inside Duluth’s 2027 budget reckoning
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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Howie: Mark Wilf draws a championship line for Vikings
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Tim Meyer: Prepare our children for a future that is already here
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Duluth chamber president out after new DWI charge
DULUTH, Minn. — Matt Baumgartner is no longer president of the Duluth Area Chamber of Commerce following his second drunken-driving arrest since taking charge of the organization in 2021. The chamber’s board of directors announced Baumgartner’s departure Wednesday, two days after prosecutors charged him with second-degree driving