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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.
Duluth needs a budget surgeon, not another video stream
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.
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Duluth schools have not earned another tax referendum
Duluth taxpayers are not prepared to approve another vague promise that new money will stabilize a system the district admits will remain financially unstable.
Hermantown hockey teams set for three-day summer scrimmage series
The Hermantown Hawks boys hockey team will return to the ice this weekend for three days of summer scrimmages against several of Minnesota’s established programs at Hermantown Arena. The Hawks’ varsity and junior varsity teams will each play one game Friday, Saturday and Sunday on the arena’s North