This submission is a response to a DNT Letter to the Editor found here:https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/opinion/letters/6831112-Readers-View-Stauber-has-blood-on-his-hands-too Did you hear the one about the congressman who actually represented his constituents, introduced bills supporting district issues that benefited everyone, and stood by his party in Congress? No? Neither did we! But we should have. I have lived in Duluth…
You Can’t Win the Blame Game
It’s an all too familiar story. A new child at school is ruthlessly harassed by bullies time and again. No matter who the child tells, no action is taken – no discipline doled out. No one in an authority position cares. Of course, the new kid isn’t perfect: they call names, exaggerate, get loud, but…
Lessons from 2020
2020. The year opened with such potential – the first year in a new decade… the country on an economic high… even 20-20 is synonymous with “perfect vision” – how could anything go wrong? You know how they say “Make plans and God laughs”? He must have really been rolling on the floor with this…
How Minnesota Tried to Approve Voter Fraud
Webster defines ‘fraud’ as intentional perversion of the truth in order to induce another to part with something of value or to surrender a legal right, an act of deceiving. Webster also defines ‘Fix’ as an act or instance of obtaining special privilege or immunity from the law or of exerting improper or illegal influence…
Dear Santa: All Duluth Wants for Christmas
2020 has been rough on everyone and Duluth is certainly feeling the effects. If the big man in red could find Duluth on the “good list” this is what we’d ask for: A reprieve from COVID from those who have lived and breathed it for the last 9 months – the doctors, nurses, long-term care…
Duluth to Lisa Bender: We Don’t Want Any
Rumors abound that the President of the Minneapolis City Council, Lisa Bender, the voice and face of the Defund the Police movement (whether she likes it or not), is moving to Duluth. The instant gut reaction this burps up is something I learned from an experience while fundraising for an elementary school walk-a-thon decades ago,…
Good Neighbor Rules Should Apply to Everyone
Double Standards? Several years ago Duluth City Councilors added another ‘good neighbor’ ordinance to those already in existence. It says, in general, that as city residents, you are required to maintain your property consistent with the neighborhood. If you do not the city will come in, fix the problem, and recover their costs on your…
Emily Larson at it Again: Rude Response to Hospitality Industry
This week a group of leaders in Duluth’s hospitality industry drafted a letter to the DECC and Visit Duluth Boards of Directors to share their concerns with the boards’ push to merge the DECC and Visit Duluth (VD). Both organizations are struggling due to the pandemic and members of the Board of Directors for both…
DECC Saliva Testing Experience
Remember when “you’ve been exposed” meant someone found out you messed up and the most you had to worry about was dying of embarrassment? Now when “you’ve been exposed” your life comes to a screeching halt and the worst-case scenario could be a battle with the deadly version of the Coronavirus. As the case count…
Want Property Tax Answers?
Read More Than the Bottom Line on Your Proposed Taxes 2021 Statement Last week, I received in the mail the “Proposed Property Tax Statement” payable in 2021 for my home in Duluth. There wasn’t anything unique about this correspondence. What was unique was that given the pandemic I actually took the time to read more…