From the editorial: This is "hardly a 'scheme.' Or a bailout." Written By: News Tribune Editorial Board | 11:00 am, May 11, 2021 × Skiers start down a run at Spirit Mountain on Sunday March 21, 2021. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com) The email to the City Council was like so many other comments and reactions on social media and elsewhere last week after Mayor Emily Larson proposed investing $24 million into long-troubled Spirit Mountain. “After year upon year of having to bail Spirit Mountain out, it seems way more fiscally responsible to sell it now to a private entity. We will still reap all the benefits of the tourism it brings with hotel usage and shopping and restaurant usage,” urged the note from a Duluth resident. The email also pointed out “the dumpiness Spirit Mountain represents” and concluded with: “We strongly urge you not to bother with this newest and latest scheme.”