Duluth Police Press Release
The Duluth Police Department is seeking the public’s assistance in locating 10-year-old Mila Larsen. Mila was last seen today, March 25, around 7:30 p.m. in the area of 1700 North 43rd Avenue East. She was wearing a black jacket, pink shirt, black pants, and boots with grey fur. If you know of the whereabouts of Mila, you are encouraged to call 911 right away.
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.
Financial need alone will not carry two operating referendum questions across the finish line Nov. 3. The district must confront a trust issue that has accumulated over two decades and explain why voters should believe the next 10-year, $103 million plan be better than the plans that preceded it.
