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…
Part 2: Downtrodden Duluth
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…
The Real Duluth
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…
Open Letter to Emily Larson from a Fellow Boy Mom
Hi Emily,As a woman, I feel you. You have a high-profile job making important decisions for 80,000+ people and you face probably more than your fair share of criticism. And honestly, I want to like you, that’s why I started following you on Twitter. But girl… you make it so hard. I was made aware…
Mayoral Hypocrisy
In response to President Donald Trump coming to Duluth for a campaign rally, the supposed non-partisan Mayor of Duluth, Emily Larson, made some statements calling the President a white supremacist among other things. Real Stories North has debunked the claims of racism against the President but instead of apologizing, it just showed how much of…
President-Ist: Where’s the Apology?
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…
Local Candidates, Radical Views
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…
Part 1: Downtrodden Duluth
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,…
DPD: Reining in the Riots
On Tuesday, September 15th, 2020 there was a BLM protest in Duluth. While the scene itself has received its fair share of news coverage, there is one thing that hasn’t received any news coverage – the Duluth Police Department. Overall, I am impressed with how the Duluth Police Department handled the entire event and Duluthians…
What Are You Doing to Divide?
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…