Our View: Council can pick fairly, resist divisiveness
Hard decisions need to be made today regarding tourism tax distributions; Duluth city councilors can resist allowing personal feelings and divisive language to muddy their deliberations.
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News Tribune Editorial Board | 11:00 am, Dec. 14, 2020 ×
Throughout the pandemic, the apparent picking of winners and losers by government has been a source of anger and frustration. Big-box retailers OK’d to stay open while mom-and-pop stores were ordered closed, for example. Or authorities looking the other way from packed, nearly maskless political rallies and streets-filled protests while cracking down on smaller, family-and-friends get-togethers in parks and elsewhere.
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Kept from tourism tax dollars, Duluth Children s Museum may close without support
“It’s just heartbreaking,” said the museum board s chair, citing a need to raise $25,000 in the next 60 days. 6:42 pm, Dec. 11, 2020 ×
The new location for the Duluth Children s Museum is this building at 2125 West Superior Street. (Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com)
On the precipice of reopening in a new location in Lincoln Park, the 90-year-old Duluth Children’s Museum is suddenly at risk of closing due to hardship brought upon it by COVID-19.
“It’s not a comfortable position for our organization to be in,” Erica Henkel, museum board chair and president, said. “You hate to admit things are not going well … (but) we are reaching the point we need to ask for help.”