Category: Real Stories North

Saturday, businesses and individuals who own rental property in Duluth found an interesting letter in their mailboxes. The letter, from the Director of the St. Louis County Public Health Division, Amy Westbrook, informed property owners that they are responsible for enforcing Governor Walz’s ordinances regarding gathering size and mask-wearing at their properties or they could…

A local business group, the Greater Duluth Business Association, has launched a petition asking the City of Duluth to say “no” to the possibility of having the George Floyd Trial in Duluth Their press release states: “Recently, Fox 9 News out of the Twin Cities, reported that all four defense teams have filed a motion…

Boxes are labeled and a moving company is called for yet another prominent downtown Duluth business as they make the hard, yet necessary decision to move their business up the hill. The lack of action by the City of Duluth to manage homelessness and drug use in downtown is having a tangible impact on the…

Garbage is piled behind a building on downtown’s First Street, the remnants of a camp where someone slept the night before. It’s daytime and a homeless man precariously sleeps on a median, using his belongings as a pillow. Finding a hypodermic needle during a walk around any downtown block is a common occurrence. Last weekend…

Seeing is believing and admitting you have a problem is the first step. Since the city refuses to acknowledge the extent of the homeless, drug, and crime problem growing in Duluth, especially in the downtown and western Duluth communities – it’s time we show them. When police are called, concerned citizens are told there is…

Chauvinist, racist, white supremacist… perhaps the only common “ist” our President hasn’t been called is “feminist”. A couple of weeks ago we published an article that asked “What are you doing to divide?” The division in our country is coming from all of us – and that was clearly on display Wednesday when before President…

You can’t turn on the television, radio, your computer, even open a music app on your phone without hearing messages from local and national candidates. Most of the messages are pointless party-line talking points creating adding to the noise of an already divisive election. When Biden mentioned his campaign platform in yesterday’s debate as: coming…

In most communities, “downtown” is the bustling heart of the city where business people speed walk the streets with lattes and laptops by day, and couples stroll arm in arm from restaurant to entertainment venue by night. Downtown should be “the place to be”, but in Duluth, downtown is downtrodden. In the past three months,…

Protests, riots, shootings, vandalism, cop-killing, and along with them – feelings of fear, hate, anger, and frustration. You can’t pick up a paper or scroll through a social media feed without seeing these words or experiencing these feelings. What has happened to the United States of America? Who did this? A decade ago you could…

A local Duluth veterans group, Veterans United for Freedom, hosted a 9/11 event honoring first responders at the American Legion on Grand Avenue on September 11th. Neill Atkins, Head of Ceremony, lead the event which featured speakers, food, and a musical performance by popular Duluth musician, Sydney Hanson. The event brought together Duluthians looking to…