Bob CollinsWe’ll wait for the website before passing judgement, but color us interested in how people can really take control of their financial lives when their existence in the working world depends on the profiteering whims of someone else. Read more →
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Submitted without comment is this absolutely perfect Facebook post from the Duluth Police Department, honoring the opening of a Dunkin’ Donuts store in the city. Read more →
BB’s Pizzaria food truck is fighting the good fight to bring food trucks to the city, which still bans food trucks on public streets. Read more →
Duluth Mayor Don Ness suggested that St. Paul is just trying to be Duluth, and says while St. Paul might produce its share of beer, Duluth has the “ethic” than the capital city lacks.
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We don’t like to admit it, but many of us are closer to rock bottom than we might think.
Even TV news celebrities — a high-ego community if ever there was one — aren’t shielded from the ‘shame’ we tend to heap on people who are unemployed. The Great Recession should’ve taught us how vulnerable we are to the whims of employers and a shaky economy, and to think about what we’d do when the ax falls.
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The price of gasoline jumped in the Twin Cities today, hitting $2.79 a gallon in most locations. It’s a lot better than a year ago, of course, but it’s a lot higher than a few months ago.
The experts said the economy would get a big boost because we’d spend the money we didn’t spend on gas on things that might get the economy humming a little more.
It’s as if the experts have never met the motoring public. Read more →
It’s a pretty fair bet that few people are going to feel sorry for the change that might’ve presented itself on your doorstep today.
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They’re pretty excited for Monday to come over in Wisconsin.
Starting Monday, they get to drink beer from Minnesota, one more brick in the wall collapsing between the two states.
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The law is having a hard time keeping up with technology-fueled entrepreneurs, but Duluth is giving it a go with a potential crackdown on homeowners who rent out their property to tourists via sites such as VRBO and AirBnB.
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Bernie Ockuly, of Cleveland, fairly well bristled last January when he read an MIT professor’s suggestion (by way of News Cut) that people who have been unemployed for 99 weeks probably aren’t trying hard enough to get a job. He knows better. Read more →
Delta CEO Richard Anderson, a familiar face in these parts because of his tenure at Northwest Airlines, declared today that airline fees are here to stay because you want them.
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It’s been awhile since a newspaper’s investigation has caused the nationwide stir that today’s New York Times probe into nail salons had. And with good reason; slave labor isn’t supposed to happen here.
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Duluth-based Cirrus Aircraft is one of the state’s success stories, especially considering its location. So why are they building a new $15 million facility in Tennessee? Read more →
A New York Times story today reveals the extent to which one’s lot in life is luck — the randomness of where someone is born and raised. Read more →
The Iron Range has always been the land of boom times and bust, but the country is full of decaying cities where people once waited for a bust to end and the status quo to return. Read more →