Minnesota’s Daily Columnist
TODAY'S COLUMN
In the end, Minnesota's governor's race will test whether longstanding geographic voting patterns hold under the pressure of a controversy that has placed the competence and accountability of state government squarely before the electorate.
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The arena will accommodate Monsters home games during the spring and summer, outside the university's primary college hockey and basketball seasons. The move also gives the Monsters access to a substantially larger population base and a major professional sports market.
The evening will begin in Symphony Hall with a 1960s theme, recognizing the DECC's opening in 1966. Guests will then move through other campus venues featuring exhibits and activities reflecting subsequent decades.
For Hermantown and Hibbing-Chisholm, the road to a state hockey championship runs through each other. For Proctor, it runs through a demanding Class 2A basketball field that will have months to prepare for Chloe Johnson.
The Legacy, nearly a decade in the making, will include 30 income-restricted apartments and seek to attract students, young professionals and workers in critical industries.
At 80, the Minnesota Star Tribune columnist Patrick Reusse remains a reporter first, a skeptic always and one of the most distinctive voices in Minnesota journalism.
Mayor Roger Reinert has delivered measurable results on housing, infrastructure and property taxes. But the city's financial problems, housing shortage and uncertain downtown recovery raise a more difficult question: Is Duluth becoming stronger, or simply managing its problems more effectively?