Quote Me, Howie: Roger Reinert on the city's tourism marketing RFP
"But we have worked extremely hard in this first year to do things the right way, and do what I said we would do: keep property taxes low, improve public safety, increase housing, fix our streets, and develop our commercial tax base." -- Duluth Mayor Roger Reinert
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Howie: After 50 years, I’m asking — what do you want to read?
After 50 years, the only thing that still matters is whether the work connects. And the best way to make sure it does is to listen — even now. Especially now.
Howie: In Duluth, the bills keep climbing — and the people can’t keep up
Howie's daily column is sponsored by Lyric Kitchen Bar. eMail Howie There’s a quiet kind of panic that doesn’t show up in ribbon cuttings or glossy tourism campaigns. It lives at the kitchen table, in the pause before a credit card is swiped, in the slow