The City of Duluth’s Parks Maintenance Division will place clean, discarded wood chips for public use and pick up in bulk at the U-shaped driveway by Tony Emanuel Field at Woodland Park beginning Saturday.
The wood chips, which are an urban forestry byproduct and are untreated, are available on a first-come, first-served basis to anyone wishing to use them. If the pile depletes, parks maintenance staff will continue to refill them until the spring.
What happens next at the Minnesota Star Tribune may become one of the clearest signals yet about how major regional journalism survives the next generation in America. Not as a dying factory. Not as a billionaire toy. But as an institution Minnesota ultimately may decide is still worth protecting.
Trump challenged the structure itself. To Trump supporters, he represented long-overdue rebellion against elite management of the country. To his critics, he represented a direct threat to democratic norms, constitutional stability and civic decency.
Tim Meyer is a Duluth architect and community builder. Reach him at tim.meyer@meyergroupduluth.com I attended last week’s public event on the Lester Park Golf Course Redevelopment, and noticeably absent was golf. No golf in any of the three options presented. I think in a Land Use
Duluth residents simply need this summer emotionally. They need concerts at Bayfront and families along the Lakewalk. They need baseball games, festivals and tourists asking directions. They need reminders that life cannot become an endless cycle of bills, politics, inflation, anxiety and survival.