Twin Ponds in Duluth, near Enger Tower, was a popular fishing spot Saturday afternoon.


Twin Ponds in Duluth, near Enger Tower, was a popular fishing spot Saturday afternoon.


The Arena Football One regular season enters another important weekend Saturday with three games carrying playoff implications and added urgency as teams begin separating themselves in the standings. The headline matchup in the Midwest features the fourth-place Minnesota Monsters (3-2) hosting the second-place Kentucky Barrels (5-1) at 6 p.m.
History will remember George Floyd’s murder for many reasons. Protest. Rage. Reform. Politics. Division. Reckoning. But the enduring question may be simpler. Did America merely react to what it saw? Or did it finally learn to tell itself the truth?
The question is no longer whether newspapers are dying. The real question now is which institutions survive the transition from industrial-age newspapers into modern digital civic platforms. And whether Minnesota’s largest news organization fully understands what it must become next.
Whether residents ultimately agree with every proposal or not, the broader framework behind One Park One Vote deserves to be taken seriously because it attempts to connect housing, sustainability, environmental protection and economic development into one larger civic conversation.