Bob Collins
From Perfect Duluth Day and Cory Fechner comes this terrific quadcopter tour of Duluth’s Glensheen Mansion. It’s good living in Duluth. Read more →
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If there’s anything that can be called a slam-dunk decision, next week’s vote by the Duluth City Council to declare a monument in the city a ‘local landmark’ is it.
It’s the only monument in the country that memorializes a lynching. Read more →
The last time Patty Duke was in Duluth, she had a baby.
It was in a movie — You’ll Like My Mother — in 1972 in which a pregnant Francesca, played by Duke, arrives from Los Angeles to meet her late husband’s mother in Duluth. Eventually, someone gets stabbed.
Whatever happened to the baby in the movie?
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Is there room for peace in a holiday that memorializes soldiers who died in war?
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The Northland Veterans Service Committee says it’s raised enough money to build a statue to David Wheat, a Duluth man held for more than seven years in a Vietnam prisoner of war camp. Read more →
Did lawmakers follow through on their promises to give up their shutdown pay, Herb Bergson’s battle, the ice houses that don’t want to leave Minnesota lakes, when we make things all about us, and Minnesota: The state of Daft Punk. Read more →
Swimming in the snow? Read more →
If The Daily Show can do it, perhaps there’s no reason why a Duluth TV station can’t fake the news by standing in front of a “green screen” and pretending to be somewhere they’re not. Read more →
The skydiver plane crash reveals only one change is needed in air safety. Read more →