Reader Weekly

01/09/2024

About two months ago, several of us were sitting around after dinner enjoying some Haagen-Dazs ice cream and talking about the state of the city. We started chatting about the various commissions ...

25/08/2024

George Seanor Robb standing between his parents in Salina, Kansas, at the awarding of his Congressional Medal of Honor for service to the nation in World War I. Today Donald Trump awarded the ...

22/08/2024

Magnificent 7
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18/08/2024

Niigaanii-Animikii Inini Kalvin Hartwig in the Winnepeg recording studio. An emotional movie premiere was held in Winnipeg on Thursday, Aug. 8, and a Washburn-based employee of the Red Cliff Tribe ...

11/08/2024

An AI-generated sunrise with lilacs in the style or Renoir. Why does AI-generated imagery leave humans cold? Before I begin I need to point out that I use two illustrations here that were ...

04/08/2024

The leather mastery of Mark Mulay
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28/07/2024

Wisconsin has an election on Tuesday, August 13, 2024. This is normally a partisan primary with some local nonpartisan elections. But this time the election also includes two constitutional ...

21/07/2024

Vintage photo of the Chapparals. (Name misspelled on the drum!) An interesting bit of Duluth’s rock and roll history was reprised this past Saturday, July 13, when a group of seasoned ...

30/06/2024

Olga Mazuronak of Belarus broke the women's Grandma's Marathon record by 36 seconds in her first try, timed at 2:23:52. Photos by John Gilbert. There is simply no stopping Elisha Barno, who won his ...

23/06/2024

Dead mine walking

Agencies empowered to protect the state’s people and natural resources have instead flouted environmental laws to aid foreign mining corporations.

https://duluthreader.com/articles/2024/06/20/128462-dead-mine-walking

16/06/2024

The Duluth Herald of June 16, 1920, the day after a crazed mob attacked the city jail and lynched three innocent men for a crime that never took place. Born in Duluth, and now living in New York ...

09/06/2024

Map from National Centers for Environmental Information. In the novel The Ministry For The Future, Kim Stanley Robinson begins his story with a major heat wave that kills millions of people ...

09/06/2024

Cale Haugen fired a pitch in the second inning of Monday's wild 10-9 victory over the Badland Big Sticks. Photo by John Gilbert. A year ago, I wrote that watching the 2023 Esko High School baseball ...

02/06/2024

02/06/2024

A sea of people to see Willie Nelson at Bayfront. Photo by David K. Bayfront Festival Park, just yards from the iconic lift bridge, is surrounded by tourism, an aquarium, a hockey arena and in view ...

01/06/2024

B**g’s 99-year-old sister Gerry Fechtelkotter, center, was in attendance at the B**g Center on May 23 for the announcement that searchers found the fighter plane B**g had named after his ...

26/05/2024

The Carl & Frances George Cottage, 2935 S. Lake Ave., built in 1913. It sold in 2002 for $275,000 and was purchased for $600,000 in 2023 by North Shore LS LLC (i.e. Kathy Cargill). They say ...

19/05/2024

Yahoos fighting in Gulliver's Travels. What happens when snakes follow humans to the temperate zone? I wonder if two other words so close in structure have such different meanings. ...

17/05/2024

This was still true when I posted it in 2014. I actually have no idea now.

04/05/2024

In this article we will explore home and water heating through two different kinds of heat pumps: Cold climate heat pumps and networked geothermal. To recap from last time, a heat pump ...

03/05/2024

Todd Oliver and Irving the Talking Dog perform at the West on Sunday, May 5. Kettle River Paddling Festival May 3-5 Banning River State Park, Sandstone Paddlers from around the Midwest come to ...

28/04/2024

The rattling bugle of sandhill cranes always makes me pause and be grateful for the wildness of the world where we live (in Nebraska, not Wisconsin). Photo by Emily Stone. What if we stopped ...

15/04/2024

Graham Parker has always had that mysterious something that makes his songs stick with you, songs like “White Honey,” the bouncy ode to co***ne that kicks off his first album, the poppy ...

14/04/2024

Top photo, Judy Garland with Toto. Below, the Gumm sisters –Virginia, Mary Jane and Baby Frances Gumm, who would eventually become Judy Garland. The old expression “if walls could ...

07/04/2024

Protesting in Duluth on a cold January day. Photo by Phil Anderson. News reports say 100 U.S. municipalities have passed resolutions calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. These include Atlanta, Chicago ...

03/04/2024

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01/04/2024

Meet the Queen of Park Point Kathy Gargle, billionaire wife of an heir to the Gargle Family agribusiness fortune, has bought up 20 properties on Park Point and everyone’s just dying to know ...

31/03/2024

We’ve all been there. It’s getting dark outside, the dinner mess is nearly tidied, it’s almost bedtime, and there we are – standing between the trash and the recycling bin ...

23/03/2024

“The economy is people. And that is why it grows from the middle-out...the more people you fully include in the economy, the faster and more prosperous, and more inclusive it grows.” ...

17/03/2024

With long claws and several other adaptations, porcupines are able to eat seemingly unappetizing tree bark. Photo by Emily Stone. “Who’s eating my trees?” asked a ...