Howie: Monsters QB Johnson our 2026 AF1 Preseason Player of the Year
“We’re not coming into a new league to blend in. We’re coming to compete, and compete at the highest level.” -- Minnesota Monsters' Ja’Vonte Johnson
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Howie: When downtown’s believers start dreaming of leaving
Whether every fear about downtown is fully borne out by hard crime numbers is, in one sense, beside the point. Perception drives behavior. Customers act on what they feel. Employees act on what they experience walking to a car. Owners act on what they hear from both.
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.
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.
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.