Eric Faust opened his coffee roastery during the height of downtown Duluth’s synthetic drug crisis, fueled by a notorious scofflaw head shop.
It was “a super low point,” for the neighborhood, he said of the time more than a dozen years ago, when drug-seeking lines snaked down Superior Street across from his shop. Read more.
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This may be the moment Klobuchar has been preparing for since she first entered public life — not to campaign, not to negotiate from the sidelines, but to run the place she has spent a lifetime studying.
The skywalk was engineered for a different downtown — one built around banks, utilities and insurance headquarters moving employees between ramps and desks without touching Superior Street. That downtown is gone.
By Howie Hanson, 50 Yard Football Several teams in America Football One made roster moves Friday, adding size along the lines and adjusting depth at quarterback and defensive back. Washington signed defensive lineman Javier Edwards (6-foot-2, 350 pounds) out of Colorado. Oregon made five additions, including defensive lineman Isaiah Pedack
It is time to bring major community stakeholders and economic drivers — such as UMD and the College of St. Scholastica — downtown. With them would come students, faculty and staff, along with parents, friends and visitors, fueling a historic rebirth of downtown Duluth.
