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.
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.
The city estimates its recently negotiated labor agreements will increase personnel costs by approximately $9.9 million over three years, according to the 2026 city budget. There is your deficit, dressed in a collective bargaining agreement and scheduled to arrive on time.
Durrwachter understands what it means to work for a living, raise children under financial pressure and confront people with more institutional power than she possesses. She does not appear to regard City Hall as a private club.
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Duluth taxpayers are not prepared to approve another vague promise that new money will stabilize a system the district admits will remain financially unstable.
