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Duluth needs a budget surgeon, not another video stream
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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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Howie: Here comes Duluth Public Schools Red Plan Jr.

Debt service already consumes about 60 percent of the school levy. With this addition of $38 million in bonding debt, Duluth is entering a decade in which the school system will spend more paying off debt than teaching future students.

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