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Keith Dixon

Explaining Duluth’s mixed test results

Budgeteer News - 08/07/2008
This week the Minnesota Department of Education announced results of the MCAII tests, including which schools made “adequate yearly progress (AYP)” and which did not.

Ralph Doty

Readers responded to last week’s column — and how!

Budgeteer News - 08/21/2008
It’s every newspaper columnist’s goal: write a column and hope his readers find it interesting and thought-provoking. Most of us like to receive feedback, even if readers don’t agree with what we wrote.

Eddy Gilmore

The new/old neighborhood

Budgeteer News - 08/21/2008
How in the world will you ever get to the Olympics if you don’t have time to properly train?

Linda LeGarde Grover

‘Onishishin’ has many meanings, all good

Budgeteer News - 08/07/2008
The Ojibwe word “Onishishin” is a lovely and reassuring word.

Pete Langr

My car, your problem

Budgeteer News - 08/14/2008
I once parked near St. Mary’s Hospital, and returned to a note on my windshield: “Please refrain from parking on our street,” was its approximate complaint. “This is a residential neighborhood.”

Dave LeGarde

The ‘viewing Olympics’

Budgeteer News - 08/21/2008
I’m not sure when it all got so crazy.

S.E. Livingston

Don’t let your kids slack off

Budgeteer News - 07/31/2008
Dear Family, Do you barely have time to read the Budgeteer because you are hustling your kids to art camp, soccer games, gymnastics and sleepovers all in the name of making them well-rounded, confident, competent people?

Dick Palmer

Facing reality is a really tough pill to swallow

Budgeteer News - 08/21/2008
What a curious headline and, I suspect, Budgeteer editors are scratching their heads and wondering just where I’m going with this; but it won’t take very long to get about half of my Budgeteer readers angry at me.

David Ross

Ness is a courageous leader

Budgeteer News - 08/21/2008
Mayor Don Ness displays courage as he sets out to balance the city of Duluth’s budget prior to the end of the year.

Kristi Stokes

38 Special headlines downtown block party

Budgeteer News - 08/14/2008
Think back to the 1980s, when rock music was big and the hair was even bigger.

Matt Suoja

Get out of the city, take a walk in the ‘dangerous’ woods

Budgeteer News - 07/31/2008
Recently I changed my walking routine.

Virgil Swing

This former planning commission member says sale is best use

Budgeteer News - 08/21/2008
Sell the Tiffany window and Park Point land and lay off 170 or so of city employees. And increase city fees while you’re at it.

Larry Weber

Blue-staining boletes

Budgeteer News - 08/21/2008
Early summer rains were plentiful. Both June and July recorded above-normal rainfall.