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Category: Duluth Finances

What the City Council giveth they can taketh away

September 10, 2016

The banner headline in yesterday’s DNT trumpeted the City’s brave attempt at transparency by replacing “street fees” from Duluth utility bills with honest to…

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The Commodore is right again

August 5, 2015

As Claudia and I sat at Valentini’s having breakfast this morning we saw one of the sailboats from the Trans Superior Race gliding into…

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Do ISD 709’s auditors believe it was wise to transfer ten million local levy dollars from the classroom …

December 9, 2014

and spend it instead on debt repayment? No they don’t. They have no opinion on that question. Like good auditors they only evaluated whether…

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My 22 minute message

July 9, 2014

Once again I woke up too early this morning this time a little stiff and achy from a lumpy pillow. As I lay hoping…

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$200 million!

May 29, 2014

I was a little taken aback reading a March news story about a Tribal panel dismissing complaints against Fond du Lac’s leadership. It wasn’t…

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Rockridge

January 30, 2014

Darn it. I’m way to garrulous for my own good. I spent 2 hours and 40 minutes talking with seven folks who are concerned…

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The Tuesday Trib’s trio…

October 1, 2013

…of stories pertinent to the levy: The first is about the retirement of Terry Matson. The eye popping figure is this. When he began…

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I endorse this editorial

September 9, 2013

As one of the nine School Board members who created and or protected the “ten percent reserve” which ended up at about $23 million…

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Gaming the system

November 22, 2011

The ever growing likelyhood of losing Casino money is really big and unpleasant news for Duluth taxpayers. According to this story Duluth was only…

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Something I couldn’t write when my blog was down

October 11, 2011

I couldn’t have said it better than this letter writer did in the DNT: This letter is about the property tax issue. I had…

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Nobodies talking about it

October 5, 2011

Only about twenty people went to last night’s school board forum. That’s a bit of a rebuttal to the notion of building something so…

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Good luck…

September 23, 2011

…figuring out how this will affect your property taxes. It comes from Minnesota Public Radio. The DNT reported a while back that losing the…

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Virgil’s swing…

September 3, 2011

…is not a miss. Only his Budgeteer column is missing from the DNT’s online site. That’s too bad. He points out that the public…

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I wish the School District could get…

July 11, 2011

…a $2.3 million settlement from JCI! Only we should be able to collect $15 million. First it was guaranteed that JCI wouldn’t get a…

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As the Red Planners kept reminding us…

May 8, 2011

…our leaders were elected to make such decisions. A short, sour and altogether honest assessment of some of our current City Fathers, several of…

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From the Past

February 27, 2011

Sent to me by an email friend: News Tribune Feb. 23, 1971 * Members of the Duluth School Board were asked yesterday to support…

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7 million (per year) short of a solution?

January 3, 2011

I don’t subscribe to the Star Trib but I received this bit of intelligence from that paper today in an email. Its a year…

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Good luck getting a new excess levy passed

September 23, 2010

Its not only the Red Plan that has cost teacher’s jobs. Its the new teacher contract. On July 20, the board passed a $63…

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About that JCI Steam Plant arbitration

August 7, 2010

Everything seemed to be working out between JCI and the City of Duluth over the Steam Plant last April. Since then the City Council…

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Judicial politics

June 30, 2009

Brandon Stahl’s reliable BuzzDuluth.blog. which describes itself as: “A running conversation on city government and politics” has an interesting post on judicial politics. Its…

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