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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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Howie: What Duluth is really asking for in St. Paul this year

Duluth and St. Louis County are not asking for luxury investments. They are asking for help maintaining systems — water treatment plants, shoreline protection, waste management infrastructure — whose costs exceed what local taxpayers alone can reasonably sustain.

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Tim Meyer: Are We Alone? Absolutely Not.

Former President Barack Obama said on a podcast that there are things in the sky we cannot explain — comments widely interpreted as acknowledgment that unidentified phenomena are real. He later walked parts of it back.

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This winter marked the lowest ice cover on the Great Lakes in 50 years, experts report
Lake Superior. Photo courtesy National Parks Service.

This winter marked the lowest ice cover on the Great Lakes in 50 years, experts report

By Kyle Davidson The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration said this year marked a record low in ice coverage on the Great Lakes, which comes as no surprise to  Minnesotans who experienced the warmest winter in well over a century. In a post to its blog, NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental

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