Howie: After Allina, the next question lands closer to home
Health care has become too expensive, too complex and too dependent on workforce pipelines and advanced technology to operate as a collection of isolated regional systems.
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St. Louis County highlights property tax refund programs available to residents
Nearly 37% of residents in the Arrowhead region, which includes St. Louis County, qualified for a property tax refund in 2023, the most recent year for which information is available.
Howie: The day Minnesota health care went national — and what Duluth should be watching next
Essentia Health has spent the last few years exploring its own version of the future — conversations with Marshfield Clinic that fell apart and a proposed alignment with the University of Minnesota that never found its footing.
Tim Meyer: What does the most famous man in the world want? Peace of mind.
Meyer is a Duluth architect and community builder writing about Downtown Duluth, politics, business, sports and economic development. Reach him at tim.meyer@meyergroupduluth.com I watched a documentary on Netflix last weekend about Paul McCartney and his post-Beatles band, Wings, and it landed with the kind of quiet force
Howie: Duluth isn’t a used car sales lot — and it doesn’t need a pitchman
What was intended as connection begins to blur into something else — something that, in its saturation, can feel closer to a pitch than a public service. An overextended one. Almost like a showroom floor that never quite closes.
Bulldogs advance to NCAA Central Region championship game
The University of Minnesota Duluth men’s basketball team has pushed its way to the brink of the NCAA Division II Elite Eight. The eighth-seeded Bulldogs will face No. 2 seed Oklahoma Baptist in the NCAA Central Region championship game at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Lee Arena, with the
Broadway show postponed until Oct. 19
The touring production of “Hadestown,” originally scheduled for tonight at DECC Symphony Hall, has been postponed because of travel conditions and restrictions tied to the Midwest winter storm. The Tony Award-winning musical, created by Anaïs Mitchell, intertwines the mythic love stories of Orpheus and Eurydice, and Hades and Persephone, in
Bulldogs stun No. 2 North Dakota, advance to NCHC title game
Minnesota Duluth is 5-2 all-time in Frozen Faceoff semifinal games and will play for its fourth NCHC tournament title. Denver and the Bulldogs enter the championship game tied for the most titles in conference tournament history with three.
Howie: Mayor Wayne Boucher helped Hermantown grow without losing its soul
In a country where public confidence has eroded in too many places, Hermantown has preserved something that is becoming more valuable all the time: the sense that a city can grow, modernize and prosper without surrendering basic standards of safety and livability.
Howie: Couch brings rare talent, unfinished NFL story to Monsters
Howie is a longtime Minnesota journalist, independent columnist and author covering sports, power and civic life. His daily column is sponsored by Lyric Kitchen . Bar of Duluth. Minnesota Monsters star wide receiver Jamal Couch has spent much of his professional football life carrying a label that sounds flattering on the
Howie: A spring ritual returns to Minnesota
In the wild, peregrine falcons typically nest on high, open ledges such as rocky cliffs. In modern cities, tall structures — including skyscrapers — serve as stand-ins for those natural cliff faces, and the St. Paul nest box has become a reliable urban nesting site.
Howie: FOX21 KQDS knocks it out of the park with website redesign
For readers in the Duluth market, the takeaway is pretty simple. The FOX21 site now looks and feels like a modern news operation. Clean design, smoother navigation, stronger technical backbone — all of it working together to deliver stories more efficiently.
Howie: Why Jacob and Brianna Lambert bet on arena football in Duluth
There is a buzz in the air right now about Minnesota Monsters arena league football at Amsoil Arena. Training camp opens on March 23. You can feel it. Something special is building.
Duluth Marshall advances to Class 2A state girls basketball semis
The Hilltoppers will face the winner of the New London-Spicer vs. Minnehaha Academy quarterfinal on Friday night.
Tim Meyer: 'Why don’t you write about golf?'
Last October, I experienced something new: my first round of golf with my son.
Attorney Melissa Maloney rejoins Fryberger law firm
Attorney Melissa Maloney has returned to the Duluth-based law firm Fryberger, Buchanan, Smith & Frederick, P.A., the firm announced. Maloney earned her juris doctor from the University of Minnesota Law School in 2001. She is certified as a Real Property Law Specialist by the Minnesota State Bar Association, a