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.
For now, the political formula in Minnesota’s 8th District remains remarkably consistent. Duluth votes. The Iron Range votes. Then the rest of northern Minnesota votes. And the rest of northern Minnesota is usually enough.
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.
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.
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