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Tim Meyer: Twins still searching for answers as early mediocrity sets tone

Tom Pohlad has continued to express a commitment to winning, but the roster construction has yet to reflect that urgency. The absence of a clear replacement for Pablo Lopez, combined with instability at shortstop and in the bullpen, suggests a team operating below the standard required to contend.

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Howie: Duluth future runs through healthcare

How do you replace lost industrial base? How do you stabilize tax revenue? How do you bring consistent, year-round activity back into a hollowing downtown? Rochester, Cleveland and Pittsburgh leaned into medicine and were successful.

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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

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Quote Me, Howie: Prep boys basketball coaches Rhett McDonald and Andy Fenske, on their respective teams
Greyhounds boys basketball coach Rhett McDonald. Howie / HowieHanson.com

Quote Me, Howie: Prep boys basketball coaches Rhett McDonald and Andy Fenske, on their respective teams

Duluth East boys basketball coach Rhett McDonald on his young and quickly improving team, which has won two of its last three including a 90-81 victory over North Branch in the Owatonna Holiday Tournament Saturday – "Coming into this season, we knew we had a lot of holes to fill

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Quote Me, Howie: Fred Friedman, Jerry DeMeo

The legendary Fred Friedman, a unanimous first-team selection at power forward on my All-YMCA Noontime Basketball Team, on Bulldogs and Gophers hoops – "I very much want both UMD and the U to excel in women’s and men’s basketball. And I want Ben Johnson to succeed. But every

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Quote Me, Howie: Ashlie Castaldo

Ashlie Castaldo, recapping the 2023 Duluth election – "As this election cycle becomes a not so distant memory, I want to thank each and every candidate for stepping up and forward to run for elected office. Public service is a calling to give back to the community, and it is

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Quote Me, Howie: Daniel Fanning
Daniel Fanning listened to Mayor Emily Larson at a Duluth Area Chamber of Commerce and Duluth News Tribune-sponsored candidates' forum this fall. Howie / HowieHanson.com

Quote Me, Howie: Daniel Fanning

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