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Howie: Downtown Duluth won’t revive until it faces its hardest truth
First Street in Downtown Duluth. Howie / HowieHanson.com

Howie: Downtown Duluth won’t revive until it faces its hardest truth

Downtown won’t be saved by consultants, binders or cheerleaders. It will be saved when Duluth faces its most challenging problem — the needles, the psychotic breaks, the encampments in doorways — and chooses to act rather than avert its eyes.

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Howie: Can Duluth finally execute?
On Tuesday, Shaun Floerke, president and CEO at Boreal Waters Community Foundation, spoke at the Imagine Downtown Duluth press event, where an 80-page roadmap that looks five years ahead was released. Howie / HowieHanson.com

Howie: Can Duluth finally execute?

The Imagine Downtown Duluth plan admits that downtowns are not guaranteed. Across the Midwest, cities are racing to reinvent themselves, and Duluth risks falling behind.

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Howie: Duluth’s airport is flunking its own report card

Airports are economic mirrors. Strong, growing cities attract more flights, more routes, more airlines willing to gamble. Weak, stagnant economies don’t. Carriers aren’t sentimental; they’re accountants with wings. If you can’t fill the seats, they won’t stick around.

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Prep Sports Notebook

Hermantown’s cross country program made the most of its chance to serve as host at one of Minnesota’s premier meets, turning in standout performances at the Swain Invitational on Saturday at Enger Park Golf Course in Duluth. The Hawks girls finished second in the team standings, just seven

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Howie: If Hubert Humphrey were Minnesota’s governor today

At the 1948 Democratic National Convention, when many in his party wanted to avoid alienating Southern segregationists, Humphrey, 37, strode to the podium and declared it was time to get out of the shadow of states’ rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights.

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Howie: Three wins, two QBs, one big mess

That’s Vikings football. Never boring, rarely logical, always exhausting. The highs, the lows, the quarterback merry-go-round, the running game that doesn’t exist, the offensive line held together with medical tape — it’s the same play, different actors.

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Vikings rally late to beat Browns in London

LONDON (HH) — Carson Wentz threw a 12-yard touchdown pass to Jordan Addison with 25 seconds left, lifting the Minnesota Vikings over the Cleveland Browns 21-17 on Sunday at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The Vikings drove 80 yards on the winning possession after a game marked by turnovers and missed chances. Cleveland

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UMD finishes opening-weekend sweep with 4-1 win at Alaska

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (HH) — Minnesota Duluth rode a strong start and a late insurance goal to secure a 4-1 nonconference college men's hockey victory over Alaska on Saturday, completing a two-game road sweep to open the season. The Bulldogs (2-0) struck 18 seconds into the first period when sophomore

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