Fri Jul 4 11:35:43 2008 - [Drugs just don't happen here in Duluth] By: Dead Inside |
| I caught that, Jess. I think it's safe to say that there will be a new crime happening next week, perhaps a drive-by shooting, a good old fashioned stabbing or merely an assault. Whichever way it goes, you can be sure that it won't have anything to do with drugs, because that just don't happen here in Duluth. |
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Fri Jul 4 09:59:56 2008 - [Let's enforce the laws that we have] By: Neil |
| What is going on with the police department? Last night sounded like WWIII out there with the amount of fireworks being blown off and no DPD to put a stop to it. Some of the fireworks had to be a least a Class III explosive. It got so bad I had to shut my doors and windows because of all the smoke coming into my home which was a block away from the action and causing me a stomachache and headache. It is not a matter of me not being patriotic and celebrating the 4th of July it is a matter of personal safety and creating fire hazards. There was no need to call 911 and report it as the explosions could be heard a mile away. We either have the law or not, enforce it or at least drive by. |
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Fri Jul 4 09:22:39 2008 - [Chicago connections] By: Jess |
| One of the Hillsiders interviewed by the DNT regarding crime in the Hillside said that he had just moved here from Chicago. I wonder if BS caught that? |
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Thu Jul 3 22:57:33 2008 - [Sit back and get ready for a bumpy ride] By: George D. |
It was nice to see everyone march last night in the Hillside Parade.....then a stabbing in downtown Duluth.
I see things are getting better day by day when everyone has a night out.
Summer has just begun....sit back and get ready for a bumpy ride......
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Thu Jul 3 15:33:25 2008 - [Years of crooked taxpaid loosing ripoffs] By: Dumb and Dumber |
Voter, Vallejo's bankruptcy status may be questionable. It takes a labor union as Dumber as Duluth's AFSCME crew to screw themselves out of their own contracts. A AFSCME, AFL-CIO bought and paid for cast of DFL liberal politicians who have never had to meet a payroll out of their own pockets, will be the downfall to union contract security. A person who had his vehicle repossessed and can't remember last years approved budget is the "Top Strategist" too preventing Duluth from being "TRULY" bankrupt??!!! A spend like there's no tomorrow, from the state we will borrow, AFSCME bought, Dumber DFL majority rule City Council, can tax all they want, but population, income, and business numbers clearly show a decreasing tax base!! A non debateable fact, Duluth can not afford what it has on it's plate right now!!!!! A tightening economy, increased operations costs, questionable bond rating, decreasing values too City held real estate, unsecured debt in the hundreds of millions, secured debt not looking so good with a 4.4 million budget short fall just for the next six months, and we would be concerned that Duluth could not qualify for bankruptcy status? With the "put it off til tomorrow, I didn't help cause this" mentality that controls Duluth, and the status quo hiding behind years of crooked taxpaid loosing ripoffs, when Duluth steps up to the judge and says we can't work this out, it won't, for sure, be a false statement. Too many people too busy saying, but Nooooooooooo, I told you Sooooooooo, for there to be any other way out of this "AND" sadly, we all loose!! If a judge was to hear mismanagement of funds in a union challenge to Duluth's bankruptcy status, he will find a Dumber 800 pound gorilla that ate itself out of house and home!!!
Hope all enjoy the different levels of independence we now have, for we all, and far too soon, may have to sacrifice much in order to enjoy any of it at all. God Bless our Troops!!!!! |
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Thu Jul 3 12:56:31 2008 - [Quit making an idiot out of yourself ] By: Get Lost |
Get Real said: "The post about the incident came a little late to make the case that this site is anywhere near balanced on recording race issues."
get real: voter did a re-post of the original post which was posted on the 28th of june when the incident happened. look back and quit making an idiot out of yourself by saying things that are false. perhaps you are the one that should grow up if you can't bother to look back and see if there was a posting about the crime in question. instead you make an ass out of yourself and show how lazy you are. |
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Thu Jul 3 10:26:38 2008 - [Take your race card game elsewhere] By: get real |
Tony,
You're just rude with the STFU (DELETED) comments. Grow up. And for God sakes take down that stuped "Exercising Free Speech" logo if you are going to censor blogs (like 2 of my previous ones) or use such harsh language when someone points out a strong point, that the majority of bloggers blame the drugs and crime on black gang members from the big city. The post about the incident came a little late to make the case that this site is anywhere near balanced on recording race issues. get real.
TONY: Get Real, no one I’m aware of plays the race card more than euphorians like you and Kayser. Take your race card game elsewhere. Get Real, I posted you whiney outburst though I had to delete some of your vile. If you don’t like what you see here, STFU and go elsewhere. You will not control the opinions of others on here no matter how many tears you shed or what threats you make.
It’s a free world and free speech is what the DCB is all about. That’s why the DCB is where the action is!
Happy 4th everyone and remember all who have sacrificed for our right to freedom of speech this Independence Day.
Tony
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Thu Jul 3 10:15:58 2008 - [800-pound gorilla in the corner.] By: Voter |
I hope the City of Duluth is paying close attention to this case and if some day in the future the city has to file bankruptcy they make sure they don't make any mistakes that may show up in this case.
"Bankruptcy on fast track
City's lawyer wants issue settled soon
By JESSICA A. YORK/Times-Herald staff writer
Article Launched: 07/02/2008 07:38:58 AM PDT
Vallejo's bankruptcy status may be determined as soon as the end of the month.
A federal bankruptcy judge will weigh in after five challenges were leveled last week against the city's Chapter 9 bankruptcy filing. A hearing is set to begin in the coming weeks.
Delaying a request to dissolve contracts between the city and its employee unions, Vallejo's bankruptcy attorney said he wants to have the bankruptcy question resolved sooner rather than later.
"We want to go forward as soon as possible," attorney Marc Levinson said Friday, according to federal bankruptcy court records. "The attorneys fees are mounting up and staggering on our side and I'm assuming (union attorney) Mr. (Dean) Gloster's side is running up fees as well."
Levinson referred to the issue of employee contracts as the "800-pound gorilla in the corner."
City employee union bankruptcy attorney Gloster agreed Friday, saying it would be a waste of time to argue against the contract dissolution if the city were not actually bankrupt. That is a charge the unions have made repeatedly against the city. Gloster said Friday that the unions had made 18 different recommendations for the city to avoid bankruptcy proceedings, and that the city could still accept union offers.
"There's great uncertainty, your honor, in the city of Vallejo because the unions, exercising their First Amendment rights, are saying that we don't belong in bankruptcy," Levinson said. "They've taken a full-page ad in the local newspaper saying that we're horrible people and the city has misused money, etc., etc. We want to get this issue resolved. If we don't belong in bankruptcy, you'll tell us that and it will be over and we'll deal with it."
Levinson referred to a June 18 paid advertisement in the Times-Herald that proclaimed "Bankruptcy hurts taxpayers. Public safety at risk. Vital services slashed," in bold black lettering.
Gloster said Friday during a court status conference that "the latest figures filed by the city show $475 million of net assets."
"They disclosed that the week before the bankruptcy they had $136 million in cash ..." he said.
A written objection to the city's bankruptcy by Vallejo resident Henry "Hank" Howard, also questioned the city's bookkeeping.
Howard, a retired fire chief most recently with Lodi, had served on Vallejo's Citizens Budget Review Committee from 1999 to 2003. In particular, Howard said he was curious about what happened to $25 million in city investments in the Local Agency Investment Fund between 2006 and 2007. He also criticized the city's hired management, noting 14 city managers and seven finance directors in a 13-year period.
George W. Wagner and Herb Shrum, both former Vallejo city employees receiving pensions and insurance benefits, each wrote one-page challenges to the city's purported fiscal status. Shrum, a retired police officer, wrote that he is more than just an interested party because his quality of life could be affected by changes to his benefits. Wagner, a former city Water Department and Grounds Department worker and Vallejo resident, said his livelihood was at risk along with his retiree benefits. Wagner was particularly worried over his wife's ongoing medical needs and attributed the city's fiscal problems to long-term city fund mismanagement.
Mustafa Abdul-Ghanee, the chairman of Vallejo's Housing and Redevelopment Commission and Human Relations Commission, wrote a five-page objection, speaking on his own behalf. Abdul-Ghanee said Vallejo could have resolved its financial problems without bankruptcy, as it had for the past 100 years. He blamed political pressures and fears of unpopularity on the council's decision to declare bankruptcy." |
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Thu Jul 3 10:15:16 2008 - [DANNY DOES DULUTH - EPISODE 50 ] By: Danny G |
DANNY DOES DULUTH - EPISODE 50 - ExtravaDANza!!!
"Inspiration" is the running theme in this, our landmark 50th episode. In this extra-long edition of the greatness that is DDD, we invite you to sit back, throw a couple of weinies on the ol' grill, grab a cold one, and enjoy your 4th of July with your pals Danny and Ashley. On this show:
-An inspirational message from Ronald
-Even Duluth's criminals are getting dumber
-Pat Cadigan breifly stops by to tell us about his holiday plans
-Danny's idiotic Northland NewsCenter contest plans
-Dennis Anderson offers some deep advice
-Don Donny Ness plans to make us all healthy...with "water sports"?
-Ashley's tribute to Fred
-Republican National Convention Zubaz
-Ashley's disturbing boobs
-An audio message from Michelle Lee and Julie Pearce
Enjoy!
www.dannydoesduluth.com
or
www.lewlattolive.com
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Thu Jul 3 09:19:02 2008 - [No to the Duluth Fricking Lunacy, DFL] By: LIB Reader Online |
I totally agree with Ben, get out while you can and do not support the union maggots that are sucking every cent out of this town.
Do what you can online, read the LIB online for free saves the trees and lots of energy, and shopping online saves lots of gas money and doesn’t fund the 1% to this corrupt city.
Enough is enough. Stop supporting the Duluth Fricking Lunacy, DFL.
Readers’ views
Duluth News Tribune
Published Thursday, July 03, 2008
Red plan aptly named, poorly timed
I cannot believe the Duluth School Board is going ahead with its flawed red plan when so many citizens in Duluth are scared to death of its consequences (“Long-range plan begins with renovations at two sites,” June 25).
Here we are in the midst of what some news analysts are calling a “worldwide recession,” and Duluth is being plunged into the massive debt of the red plan on top of all the other debt our city is incurring.
My late husband and I always voted yes to any school improvements because we felt our children received excellent educations and we wanted that for all children. However, we in Duluth are now facing debt and recession at every level — city, state and federal — and all the chickens have come home to roost. Everywhere you look you find trouble: houses being foreclosed all over the country, grocery prices rising, gas prices off the wall, truckers going belly-up, airlines merging to try to stay in business, and auto and truck manufacturers laying off workers.
Fuel-oil heating costs killed me last winter. When it costs $700 to heat your house for one month it’s time to think of switching to natural gas. But installing a new, high-efficiency gas furnace costs $4,000 to $6,000. Ouch!
And then we all have to wonder how we are going to pay that new $7,500-per-household sewer-line bill. That charge is bound to force a lot of elderly people out of their homes. But who will buy their house? There’s a glut of houses for sale already.
So I ask: Is this the time to go deeper in debt with this overblown red plan? Think about it. You know whoever named it the red plan named it correctly. We’re all going to be in the red.
KONI SUNDQUIST
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Thu Jul 3 09:06:30 2008 - [ANOTHER Duluth Assault/Stabbing] By: Locals Gone Wild II |
DATE:07/03/2008
SUBJECT:Assault/Stabbing
CASE #:08-305728
INCIDENT DATE:07/03/2008
INCIDENT TIME:0117
INCIDENT LOCATION:1 Av. E. and Superior St.
NATURE OF INCIDENT:Assault/Stabbing
BY:Sgt. Dan Boese
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Description:On 07/03/08 Duluth Police Officers were dispatched to the area of the #1 alley West of Lake Ave. in referrence to citizens having a male detained after a person was reported to be stabbed.
Officers took custody of a 26 year old male suspect. The 32 year old male victim was transported to a local hospital by Gold Cross Ambulance for treatment of a stab wound to his left shoulder.
The incident occurred on the corner of 1 Av. E. and Superior St. The victim and suspect did not know each other. The knife was locate during an article search completed by Duluth Police Canine Officer Wick and Canine Abe.
After interviewing the victim, suspect, and witnesses, the 26 year old male was transported to the St. Louis County Jail for 2nd Degree Assault awaiting formal charges by the St. Louis County Attorney’s Office.
There are no other suspects involved or at large. |
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Thu Jul 3 02:05:01 2008 - [Court Decision Crown in Celebration] By: Big Iron |
| The Appeals Court decision is hardly new news. I tried to tell you bozos that same decision has been reached in many cases across the country. But did you listen? Noooooooooooooooo. This calls for a little Crown in celebration. I'll save the good stuff for later. |
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Thu Jul 3 01:16:25 2008 - [Good news will be bankruptcy for Duluth] By: Ben Dover |
Good News: You have a different concept of what good news is. Good news is when Duluth declares bankruptcy on the watch of Donny Boy and grubs like Big Iron have to actually get a job. I should have figured by the way he was always in support of stealing money from the taxpayers that he was one of the Duluth's finest DFD grubbers.
Start paying attention, buy online and do not feed the union maggots in Duluth. Vote with your feet and get out while you still can.
Ventura for Senate!!!! |
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Thu Jul 3 01:09:02 2008 - [Government employee on the go!] By: Good News |
| No, I am not the dishwasher Moderator. I attend the big Chili Cook Off held in Texas. I have the time off and the money to travel. |
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Thu Jul 3 00:56:13 2008 - [Appeals court upholds retirees’ position] By: Good News |
Read it now for free at the DNT online or wait for tomorrow's DNT. I hate to spoil the surprise but...
Appeals court upholds retirees’ position
Mark Stodghill Duluth News Tribune
Published Thursday, July 03, 2008
The state Court of Appeals has affirmed a district court decision that concluded that 67 retired Coleraine-Greenway school teachers had vested rights to the health-care benefits contained in the collective bargaining agreements in existence at the time they retired.
MODERATOR: Good News, are you by chance the dish washer for Big Iron and the boys when they have their chili cookoff? Sounds like you are on the same diet as they are. Windy on the lake? |
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Wed Jul 2 21:04:01 2008 - [Why study for dog trails, not board plan] By: Dead Inside |
| I'm confused once again. I was reading the DNT and an article about the city of Duluth calling for an environmental study of the newly proposed dog trails. Dog trails warrant an EPA study but a $300 million dollar board of education prodeuct does not? *Cue Sesame Street song* One of these things does not belong here. One of these things are not the same... |
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Wed Jul 2 19:10:44 2008 - [Mayor wants to increase parking meeters?] By: d |
| OK, let me get this straight===the mayor wants to increase the parking meeters--to shop where? When I moved to Duluth in the 60's and lived at the Y there were stores allover the place. Now??? I only go downtown if I have to and it's certainly not to shop. I know of a store the went under because of the brick fiasco--yes, I know this for a fact--he lost business and could never recover. I worked downtown for 24 years, then out west, then back for 5 years and guess what Mr. Mayor, there is NO PLACE to shop. |
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Wed Jul 2 17:59:35 2008 - [So much for the theory from race baiter] By: Voter |
It looks to me like the Robbery was posted so so much for that theory from the race baiter.
"Sat Jun 28 09:25:29 2008 - "Strong Arm Robbery
By: Locals Gone Wild
DATE: 06/28/08
SUBJECT: Strong Arm Robbery
CASE #: 08302189
INCIDENT DATE: 06/28/08
INCIDENT TIME: 0025
INCIDENT LOCATION: Little Store / 7002 Grand Av.
NATURE OF INCIDENT: Strong Arm Robbery
BY: Sgt. Jayme Carlson
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Description:
On June 28, 2008 at 0025 hours, Duluth Police responded to the report of a Strong Arm Robbery at the Little Store, 7002 Grand Av. The victim, who is a clerk at the store, had closed the store for the night and was walking to his car when he was attacked by several males who stole his wallet. With the assistance of a Duluth Police K-9 and information given by the victim, four suspects were located
at a residence a short distance away. Two adult males were lodged at the St. Louis Jail and two juvenile males were lodged at Arrowhead juvenile Center. Charges of Simple Robbery and 5th Degree Assault are pending against all four suspects." |
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Wed Jul 2 17:50:09 2008 - [Glad you keep up on reading the DCB] By: Voter |
| Kayser S so glad you keep up on your reading of DCB. Of course your statement is meaningless but keep reading anyway. |
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Wed Jul 2 17:28:13 2008 - [Doesn't get any better than this] By: Voter |
| Well it doesn't get any better than this. Great day, great weather, great scenery. Drove down and walked around canal park, went out west and looked around Riverside, Morgan Park, Gary, Thompson Hill, drove some of Skyline, looked at stuff for sale in Central Sales(of course) etc.. Cost eight dollars in gas and 20 bucks to eat up in Proctor. I don't know if there is a view anywhere in the country that compares to some of the scenery we have around here. Was talking to a working stiff from Chicago today that is living up here working now and he's falling in love with the place. Would love to see more hard working young families like his move into the area. Not only that he's strong and can help a tired old neighbor out once in a while. So far though it seems it's the younger guys that need the assistance. They just don't know much about a lot of things. Takes a long time to gain all that knowledge us old farts learned in the school of hard knocks. Don't forget to ENJOY. |
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Wed Jul 2 14:06:23 2008 - [Locals Gone Wild missing in action] By: Kayser S |
So, why no Locals gone wild posting about the guys who beat the clerk out in Gary? Not the right color? Gee, it was over a drug deal, and these guys were Duluth white kids...guess that doesn't count to DCB'ers.
TONY: Kayser, your twisted race baiting claim is ridiculous. If a poster doesn’t post something, they could be on vacation, working, missed the news or many other reasons. Thanks for pointing another criminal attack on Duluth citizens but take your wrong color comments and STFU.
Have a great 4th everyone!
Ciao,
Tony
ramoneanthony@gmail.com |
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Wed Jul 2 13:42:42 2008 - [Band for 4th Fest?] By: d |
| I saw ONE TIME the band for 4th Fest--didn't sound like anything anyone over 20 would like, but then, what do I know. |
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Wed Jul 2 12:08:49 2008 - [Big Iron Island Lake Invite] By: Big Iron |
| You guys can come up here anytime in July. I took the month off. |
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Wed Jul 2 10:22:31 2008 - [Why is it worth 50K to pay Samborski?] By: Tracy R. |
| Whi is charge of Bayfront Festival Park anyways? I believe it is Craig Samborski. He was awarded a $50,000+ Contract to run that place from the City of Duluth. This has been for the past several years. My question is why isn't their more going on down there? Except for a few here and there activities, their isn't much going on down there. Why? And now with the 4th of July coming up Friday, their isn't much of any publicity of what the line up is or whatever is going on down there. Why? Why is it worth $50,000+ per year for Mr. Samborski to get paid for doing what? Someone should investigate that. |
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Wed Jul 2 09:28:52 2008 - [Stay at Island Lake & sip merlot ] By: Dead Inside |
| Lol. There is no entertainment over the 4th weekend, unless of course you want to watch poverty stricken homeboys and methheads rob and shoot people. Why the hell would people pay $80 to fill up their tank with gas and come here for nothing? No, it's best if you just stay up at Island Lake in your gated community, sipping merlot and reflecting on your first $100k you made on the blood, sweat and tears of Duluth's working class. We don't want you down here to case out other ways to take even more advantage of us. |
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Wed Jul 2 01:49:44 2008 - [Ne$$ should be prepared to give all] By: Dumb and Dumber |
"What does Big Iron mean"? Let me see, don't help me, I know, I know, I know. Big Iron, was a name given to a once flourishing mining industry in Northeastern Minnesota! The Minn. Nice ever controling Dumber DFL mindset of tax and spend lawmakers felt it was fair to relentlessly tax and fee these mining companies. As the global economy became a reality to economic survival, non-compromising and non-competative cost union labor demonstrated only one skill, striking within 2 days of each try to reopen a mine. The company closed it's mines, and a harsh economic sting was felt from the Range to the Twin Cities. The tax payers of the State were asked to retrain and extend the unemployment checks of the now jobless union folks. Now the mining in Northeastern Minnesota has questionable foreign owners being subsidized by some of our tax dollars to help buy jobs. It is a new technique of ore processing with some economic risk to taxpayers. A portion of the existing operational mining is already owned by other foreign investors. The DM&IR railway now belongs to the Canadians whose dollar has become worth more than ours! What has happened to the Big Iron Mining Industry of Northeastern Minnesota is exactly what the Big Iron of this blog site means; if it works for me today, why worry about the health of my community tomorrow, when the bottom falls out, my bought and paid for politicians will pass the pain onto the taxpayers anyways!!
I'm a little tired of whining about things that can't appearently be changed without some constructive ideas on how to improve things.
Here are a few suggestions for Mayor Ness and David Ross;
1. publish the 120 strategies in detail.
2. honestly publish every current TIF district property, it's value and the owners name. Then show the amount of tax revenue being forgone for the sake of "redevelopment". Show the "challenge of the status quo".
3. With the money Ross makes, he should write a check for $50,000.00 to the Duluth General Fund. If Don's Strategies work, give'em back his money. If they don't, well that's the price of leadership. He was afterall, for biting into the "Retiree Heath Care Unfunded Debt" costs, all for the Red Plan spending, and now Don's educational tuition. He should put his status quo money where his mouth is.
4. Don's been in the City's fiscal circle of knowledge for years as an elected official, he could build some citizen accountability confidence by promising to resign in 10 months if the strategies don't work. Not a Bergson not going to run again deal. There is not enough money or time for that. Everyone in the private sector that contracts to provide a service is "entrusted" and obligated to deliver a satifactory result or loose the job. He has had many chances already, is this just another cry wolf tatic? If he wants the citizens to give more, he as a leader should be prepared to give all.
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Wed Jul 2 00:40:54 2008 - [The Wealthy Yacht owners of Island Lake] By: Big Iron |
| Hey, maybe I can cruise on my yacht over to American Man's! |
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Tue Jul 1 23:21:06 2008 - [What entertainment at Bayfront this 4th?] By: American Man |
Does anyone know what the entertainment is at Bayfront this 4th? There has been NOTHING in the DNT or any announcment.
Is the City so broke they can't even give the tourists paying $450.00 for a hotel room in Canal Park with a 2 night minimum a semi good concert for visiting Duluth over the 4th?
If anyone knows the entertainment, please blog. Weather is supposed to be GREAT. If no entertainment.....I'm at Island Lake.
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Tue Jul 1 21:06:16 2008 - [You can't acquire creativity] By: Ben Dover |
Just the mention of the word "creativity" and Ben Dover seems to be the first thing that comes to mind these days!
The ladies and girly men at PDD just don't want to fess up and give credit where credit is due. I think someone there thinks that one of those buffoons came up with that beautiful banner about "trust funders and welfare sucking parasites".
Come on ladies, creativity is something one is born with. You can't just acquire it somehow or choose it like you can a "lifestyle" whether alternative or traditional. |
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Tue Jul 1 18:27:16 2008 - [Why does Chamber Board follow Ross?] By: Common Sns |
So David Ross from the Chamber is singing the praises of Donny Ness for showing such "courage" for raising taxes and fees while cutting services to the tax payers? At the same time the businesses he is supposed to represent are fighting with Ness for screwing them over, this time over jacking up the price of parking meters, and chasing even more shoppers/patrons away from their businesses??
Why the heck is Ross the head of the Chamber? He is obssesed with supporting politicians who screw with the private sector business men and women, kisses up to the Non-Profits and loves politicians who drains more and more money via taxes from the very public that patronizes local businesses! What gives at the Chamber, and why does the Chamber Board follow along with Ross's seemingly "anti business" mind set?? It's crazy.
Chamber Members, do something!! |
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Tue Jul 1 18:02:27 2008 - [What's with the pic?] By: Mr. Wrestling II |
| Not to change the pace, but what the hell kind of picture is that, that Count David Ross uses for the Budgeteer??? He looks like a G-Damn clown in that pic??? |
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Tue Jul 1 17:02:22 2008 - [I'll do it myself if I have to] By: Blue Duck |
Hillsider said "Go ahead and sport your DCB tees so's I can point and laugh at you whilst you're walking down the street."
Let me me tell you something Hillsider. I plan to get the message out with DCB t-shirts, decals and yard signs. If Tony and or his moderators don't approve the t-shirts and signs, I'll just get the god damn things myself ! When I'm out and about town I dare someone like you to come and laugh in my face. |
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Tue Jul 1 16:50:01 2008 - [GDC & Parking Commision raise rates ] By: Web Hound |
Dear Members,
Representatives from GDC met with the Parking Commission today to further discuss parking meter rates. As you know, under the City’s proposal, it was recommended to double the rates at the meters.
It is understood that the city is working under difficult financial restraints and that an increase of some sort would be inevitable after 20 years. Therefore, a compromise was recommended in which the rates would be increased by 50%, rather than the proposed 100%. (Currently, the cost is 50 cents for an hour long meter, under this compromise it would be 75 cents). In addition, several initiatives would be pursued in conjunction with this change to better manage parking inventory in a positive way
• Add more diagonal parking where available
• Implement a ticket forgiveness program (monitors writing tickets would be able to track vehicle history. If a vehicle has not had a ticket in 6 months, they would be given a warning instead of a ticket).
• Survey parking lots below Michigan Street to determine if additional long-term parking can be added where short term meters are underutilized
• Work with the DTA to explore Park and Ride opportunities for employees
• Expand the Park Plus parking program to encourage customers and employees to park in the ramps
Please feel free to contact our office if you wish to further discuss these recommendations.
Kristi Stokes
President
Greater Downtown Council
5 W. First St.
Duluth, MN 55802
218-727-8549
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Tue Jul 1 13:25:29 2008 - [Name one incident ] By: Tara |
Earth to Hillsider....
Come in Hillsider, over....
Hillside, can you not name one incident about just ONE case of a DFLer who has faced harassment at the hands of someone from the other side per Ben Dover's post below?
Hillside, come in, over.
Are you there Hillsider???????
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Tue Jul 1 12:45:13 2008 - [Living the good life outside of Duluth] By: Young Bloomer |
| Big Iron you're not DFL and my dad's the Pope. Next you're gonna say you aren't DFD PAC too. You're so obvious smoke eater. How’s the volunteer FD up at Breezy Point? That’s Gnesen Township, right? Wish I was on Island Lake today. For a guy who lives in a volunteer public safety area, this no ending blather about binding contracts is hypocritical. Another typical DFL maggot sucking the money out of Duluth to live the good life outside of Duluth. |
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Tue Jul 1 12:22:44 2008 - [Big Iron 101-What does Big Iron mean?] By: Big Iron |
| Sure doesn't take much to get simple minds riled up here. Me, DFL? Thanks for the laugh. Big Iron can also mean a ship, a tractor trailer, or a steam locomotive. Are you referring to something else, 10-7? |
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Tue Jul 1 11:44:10 2008 - [name on desk big iron ] By: Greyeagle |
| picture it: some pencil necked geek sitting in some county office with boring government job, no friends and looking for attention while typing away on various blogs. name on desk big iron |
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Tue Jul 1 11:32:49 2008 - [Piss on it and walk away.] By: Victim Detector |
Handle every Duluth situation like a dog.
Piss on it and walk away.
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Tue Jul 1 11:14:05 2008 - [A Model 686 ? Model 19 ? ] By: 10-7 |
| I'm curious Big Iron, what kind of "iron" did you carry in your former life ? A Model 686 ? Model 19 ? |
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Tue Jul 1 10:54:36 2008 - [Same old DFL rhetoric] By: Adam R |
| Big Iron, It seems that with your level of sophistication, that you have probably never been fitted for a cap or gown. Same old DFL rhetoric. Same old attacks. Same old thug mentality. Same old, same old. |
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Tue Jul 1 10:19:19 2008 - [I wish I had a contract like that] By: Big Iron |
| Poor Ben. Still crying over a binding contract. Still on the outside looking in like Dumb. Like many others, I wish I had a contract like that. If you two want your life consumed by it, have at it. Your continual whining is entertaining though. |
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Tue Jul 1 01:02:24 2008 - [Learn English and then try to refute ] By: Ben Dover |
Hillsider: Thanks for the great response to my simple question to your unsubstantiated bullkaka statement which was, "By the way, since you claim that harassment goes both ways, would you be so kind to provide information about just ONE case of a DFLer who has faced harassment at the hands of someone from the other side?"
And you are the one stating that someone else is all ego and no substance. But how could I possibly expect any more from someone who apparently does not have a decent command of the English language? How could you argue if you cannot even understand even the most basic questions?
Your persistence about telling me to go ahead with the t-shirts does have me a little puzzled. I simply said that some clown at DRR, Duluth Rump Runners, was considering making t-shirts with the name that I "created" for that group of kooks. How or why you twisted that into me making t-shirts is still a mystery. Whatever.
For a person who tries so hard to marginalize others and put them down, you may want to attempt to try to refute or argue a point when you reach the plateau of simple comprehension of English language instead of just calling names and running away like a girly man that I think you are.
Duluth has too many of you as it is Buddy!
Your ball. |
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Mon Jun 30 22:29:50 2008 - [Insults are all you have] By: Hillsider |
Once again Ben, and true to form: You're all ego and talk and zero substance. Insults are all you have.
Go ahead and sport your DCB tees so's I can point and laugh at you whilst you're walking down the street.
Good Luck, Ben Butty... |
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Mon Jun 30 16:12:29 2008 - [Applauding Mayor Ness' Leadership] By: Brown Nose Brown |
Applauding Mayor Ness' Leadership
Mayor Ness is immersed in a valuable educational growth experience. He can appreciate and take comfort in former British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli's view that, "Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater." There is no education like adversity.
In his first six months as mayor, Don Ness has been buffeted by the City's unfolding and compounding financial and operational challenges. The most recent of which is the realization that, unless he takes immediate corrective action, the City's will experience an operating deficit in 2008 of $4.4 million.
To his credit, Mayor Ness quickly developed, and is implementing, a comprehensive budget repair strategy to eliminate the deficit within the next six months. It includes 120 different strategies, from closing city departments, eliminating staffing, cutting services and finding operational efficiencies. It is a bold, ambitious - and necessary - plan.
Here is where we, as chamber members and citizens of our beloved Zenith City, would do well to support Mayor Ness and his plan - all of it. Our community can overcome this challenge if we have the courage and the discipline to allow our mayor and city councilors to implement the budget repair strategies.
Our most effective call to action may well be to not take action against the repair plan, and to allow the mayor to proceed with his repair strategies. Ideally, we will also articulate to the mayor that we look with favor upon his bold beginning. Mayor Ness can be reached at dness@ci.duluth.mn.us.
Mayor Ness would be delighted if we simply allow him to do the work we elected and entrusted him to do. He is challenging the status quo. He is rising to meet the City's multiple challenges. I, for one, support and applaud him. I encourage you to do the same.
Seeing opportunity in this challenge,
David Ross
President & CEO
Duluth Area Chamber of Commerce |
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Mon Jun 30 16:06:49 2008 - [Person with a Weapon] By: Locals Gone Wild |
DATE:June 30th 2008
SUBJECT:Person with a Weapon
CASE #:08-303683
INCIDENT DATE:June 30th 2008
INCIDENT TIME:10:27 am
INCIDENT LOCATION:24th Ave West above 6th Street
NATURE OF INCIDENT:Person reported to be threatening to shoot his neighbor
BY:Lieutenant Ed Moroney
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Description:On 06/30/2008 Duluth Police Officers responded to the report of a man threatening his neighbor with a weapon.
The responding officers investigation revealed that in the early morning hours of June 30th, the suspect had been in a physical altercation with the neighbor he was now threatening. Prior to the atlercation both parties had been drinking together most of the night.
Other neighbors reported hearing loud voices and threats but did not see a weapon.
After a short period of time the Suspect exited the back of his residence with a self inflicted cut on his arm. He was taken into custody and to the hospital for medical attention and evaluation.
The Duluth Police Dept believes alcohol was a major factor in this incident and thank the neighbors and motorist for their patience and cooperation.
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Mon Jun 30 14:54:01 2008 - [Try PDD for gender confusion support] By: Dumb and Dumber |
| Dog Gone It, Big Iron, now I really feel bad. I have been horribly not socially correct. My Dumb! Of course you never tried to physically attack me, I know cause the crow bar hasn't moved for months now. I thought you were verbally trying to attack me with an insult. I never stopped to think that some persons may use the term "cornhole" to describe someone else in what they may feel is complimentive form!! Sorry, I'm not your type, and that is so true in a multitude,(not exaggerated rhetoric), of ways. I do know that countless,(exaggerated rhetoric), City and County Government Agencies plus tax supported non-profits, along with HDC, exist to help you find happinness. For me, I fear HDC, as I know it, would be step one to dependency, and only heighten the source of my anger and remorse. I would also suggest you try the site Perfect Day Duluth, never gone there but heard people comment as to it's excellent gender confusion support. |
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Mon Jun 30 09:22:56 2008 - [Would that be just the Big Iron of today] By: Greyeagle |
| Ben would that be Big Iron aka Saginaw J aka john W aka DRZ or just the Big Iron of today? |
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Mon Jun 30 01:03:08 2008 - [Let's all hope for bankruptcy] By: Ben Dover |
Big Iron: I think that I have heard it all. You, of all people, suggesting that someone else may need to seek help at the HDC. That's a good one. By the way, you state that Dumb and Dumber has some kind of "hate" towards unions and government workers. I must have missed that post. Please oblige and point it out exactly where it was stated if you will. Thanks.
Dumb and Dumber. Thanks for the info about that Waterfront District crock of continued Duluth bullkaka. I knew it was a sham and I thank you for pointing the particulars out. Everytime I see boltnose on the tube blabbing something about how great the greater downtown council is, I always knew there was more to the story. Keep up the good blogging. I appreciate it. The likes of the Rump Running Hillsider or Mr. Charmin, Big Iron, will keep on spitting bullkaka till they run out of crapper paper. Then they will have their contracts. Oh, will that bring me joy when I learn that all they are worth is the paper they are written on!!!! Big Iron has about as much on the ball as that Griak and the other couple of clowns crying about some kind of contract. As the shoe continues to fit tighter, we are all going to have lotsa fun!! And I can't wait.
Let's all hope for bankruptcy and then we may read about Big Iron and his greedy kinfolk in the local rag, for the last time. |
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Mon Jun 30 00:27:22 2008 - [Haven't heard many facts and figures ] By: Voter |
| Are former one term mayors covered by that great womb to tomb health care coverage supplied by the City of Duluth taxpayers? Oh and Herb take the "work" gloves off while inside the clubhouse helping staff with paper work. I think everyone got the picture. I did vote for you in the primary you know. Figured you had a better chance of beating Ness than Bell. In the end threw my vote after Bell. I didn't realize you had really, really pissed the people of Duluth off as much as you had. You pissed me off many times too but you probably were the only thing standing between AFSCME and us taxpayers. We are in some deep trouble now. Wait Herb you sent that assessor to my house to double my property taxes didn't you? You made sure the assessors office was fully staffed didn't you? You see Herb love hate, love hate. Why oh why? Oh and one unrelated matter. Hang in their Dumb I like reading your stuff even if it's not 100 percent accurate. I get your point. Haven't heard many fact and figures from most posters here. I take posts by anyone, self included, with a grain of salt. |
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Sun Jun 29 23:11:06 2008 - [Should get your emotions in check] By: Big Iron |
| In no way did I attack you, Dumb. I did bring to light the ridiculous statements that you made and I will do it again if need be. You really should get your emotions in check. Your fanatical and bizzare hatred towards gov't workers and unions is unhealthy to say the least. Exaggerated rhetoric? Yeah right. That's what you say AFTER you were called on it. You believed and meant everything you said. Seriously, the Human Development Center could be of help to you. |
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Sun Jun 29 22:51:44 2008 - [Herbie must have forgotten to reserve] By: Big Iron |
| Herbie must have forgotten to reserve a room at his wethouse. |
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Sun Jun 29 22:24:22 2008 - [A Tale of How I Destroyed Two Cities] By: Avid Reader |
| Herb's book will be the shortest book in the public library. "The Complete Wit and Wisdom of Herb Bergson", by Herb "Waldo" Beergson or "A Tale of How I Destroyed Two Cities" |
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Sun Jun 29 16:20:40 2008 - [Begson acquired mess from Howdy DOTY] By: Pointless 169 |
| Hey Point......Quit Complaining about Begson, he only acquired a mess from Howdy DOTY. That crock of BS known as the Aquarium, Technology Center etc that are all failures. DOTY was also instrumental in the demolition of alot of old Downtown Duluth buildings. So don't give all the CRAP to Bergson as DOTY is to blame for the formentioned mess Dullyouth is in. I think Moose Lake is looking for your return shortly. |
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Sun Jun 29 16:12:56 2008 - [Thanks for right to exercise free speech] By: Dumb and Dumber |
Well, I could say like, Mr. Westling II, that I blog trying to show people with exaggerated rhetoric, and unreasearched fact how Dumb we are to accept things we could change.
Current polls clearly show exaggerated rhetoric is working for Obama. Duluths' economic condition, and census clearly shows fact is ignored, because after years, exaggerated rhetoric from the likes of Ness and the DFL still points the wagon.
But the fact is I use exaggerated rhetoric because am filled with anger and remorse that I an going to leave my children and grandchildren the dead end mess and lack of opportunity, I, in frustration, can not seem to get others to recognize, or unite to change.
Why do I blog Dumb? Because I am a coward and have not been willing to risk losing all too try for change. Because I am a coward who has risked more than most yet have been unable to protect my family from the greed that has put my home and town in jeopardy. Because after taking, a large for me, financial risk, and working for decades harder than most union workers would dream, I face the fact I will be forced to work until I die, and have nothing physical to leave my off spring. My $10,000.00 deductable health insurance policy, which I can't really afford, makes me equally dumb, it's not for my health, but to prevent economic burden to my family. Because I can't afford life insurance either. And because I am too proud to let someone else take care of me and be part of the system that will eventually tax my children into dependence and poverty.
Big Iron and Mr. Westling II might have spent as much time getting to the maybe difficult to understand point of my blogs, as attacking me with fact trivia and assuming who I was.
Good job of research Big Iron, so the county and the city are not the largest employers, the answer "no" is no more factual than mine. I'll cut the rhetoric and the point was, with all the good high paid union jobs, a DFL leadership that pushes minimum wage laws, and Duluth has twice the low income of other cities. Why is that, Big Iron? The answer may already have been blogged. As for your other points; the mafia collected money to provide protection as the unions do. Ask some Northwest Airlines mechanics how that worked out for them. Who was Jimmy Hoffa? The mafia was ready to use all means to their end, as with the existing threats too GM and Ford, cannot the unions see the end that Duluth and St. Louis County taxpayers can afford? The Unions still have money to advertise on T.V. and give more than legally permitted too a canidate, which is returned after the fact and the "mistake" shuffled under the carpet. Had I given too much to Bell say, would it have been shuffled under the carpet? The laws were hard enforceable to mafia supported enterprise also. They are not machine gunning taxpayers down in the street, it's a slower more inhumane economic suffering death as the fixed and low income now loose their homes and the pride of independence. Here's some tissues. I later said, "Who cares where they live". I may be wrong, but I was told the old contracts that helped create the monster unfunded debt had no deductable. Never said the three cities didn't have these undesirable folks, just said you don't see it, especially like in Duluth. God given right, to protect myself from bodily harm. Both incidents in the last 10 years. I and or my customers did not have things stolen. Bid District, try to make it simple. About mid 2004 GDC says lets use a state law to form a Waterfront Business Improvement District that we control the so called fee from. A District that runs from Canal park to the alley between 2nd and 3rd Streets, and between Missabe and St. Lukes, it had 216 property owners. 81 or 39 percent of the owners, who just happened to own 70 percent of the value of the District, and 60 percent of the surface area sign on in favor. That makes the questionable, lobbist inspired, state law work. Local media boasts 70 percent in favor. That's not a lie is it? And media fails to mention that even though some of the larger property owners, who would by their own made up legal interpretation, design to recieve the greater of the benefits, and also have given themselves a $7000.00 ceiling level of contribution. So disregard the percent of contribution by the majority of property owners, short change the project and it's ability to make a difference by holding back thousands of dollars. The City Council denies the appeal of a few disgruntled owners, passes the package and big money now controls inadvertantly the vote and some tax dollars, not the majority of property owners. I believe 60 some owners signed against in a too late petion drive done by a group called F.A.I.R. The rest, like myself, were too cowardly to take a stand against the GDC. The home made ceiling part of the law is the Unconstsitutional part, worse yet it split the Downtown Business District with hard feelings, and it certainly didn't and hasn't made a greatly noticable better union for the method used, yet. You try and get the resources to challenge it, Big Iron, then again you may think it was fair.
This is long and I apoligize, I especially apologize to Big Iron and Mr. Westling II as I must have emotionally upset them in order that they would attact me as they did in their blogs.
Mr. Westling II might share one a common trait, and it has to do with "blinders".
Thanks Tony for the right to "exercise" free speech. |
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Sun Jun 29 09:32:20 2008 - [The legacy lives on ] By: Point 161 |
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/articles/index.cfm?id=69464§ion=homepage
Once a liar, always a liar.
My observations:
1. Looks like the old lady threw him out, I couldn't blame her.
2. 15 -16 hrs a day, playing golf in Floodwood and AZ, only 2 months on a temporary job and he golfs everyday, 2 jobs don't add up just more BS from the King of BS.
3. The DCB helped take this kook down and should be in his book, but really who cares, don't buy it and support this kook.
4. Floodwood is not far enough away.
5. His Destruction of Duluth legacy will live on for decades.
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Sun Jun 29 09:18:27 2008 - [Duluth's Largest Employers] By: Muffin Top |
http://www.northlandconnection.com/stlouis/duluth/industries/leading.php
This is a good link to the largest employers in Duluth. The top four look like they may not pay property taxes. |
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Sat Jun 28 23:44:42 2008 - [Here are a few examples] By: Big Iron |
Starfire: Here's a few. June 20th at 1514...The City and County are the largest employers in Duluth? Combined or not, that would be a no. June 21st at 1304...Unions are Mafia style organized crime units? June 26th at 0043...He has no idea whatsoever as to where those people live. No deductibles for health and dental? Apparently he hasn't read any of the contracts. June 28th at 1346...He can prove those 3 cities he mentioned have no punks, gangs or drug dealers? That would be a no. June 28th at 1655...God given rights? When did that happen? Unconstitutional business districts? Can he cite some legal proof? Very doubtful.
STARFIRE: Big Iron, thanks for the clarification. That is what I wanted to see. I imagine that from this point, the discussion may really open up. |
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Sat Jun 28 23:38:52 2008 - [Even Beergson found a niche] By: Et al. |
| Even that deadbeat Beergson found a niche. In tomorrow's DNT Citizen Herb: Bergson enjoying life out of the public eye. He is living in a small apartment in the basement of a golf course. Notice in the article Beergson does not deny he is DELETED again. |
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Sat Jun 28 22:54:47 2008 - [Not less fortunate, but criminals] By: JBBP |
Who are the "less fortunate?"
Is it anybody who isn't wealthy?
Hmmm.
Seems to me that the so-called less-fortunate being referred to on this blog aren't simply people who are financially challenged. People are financially challenged for all sorts of reasons.
I have sympathy for those who work hard and struggle to pay ever-escalating bills, taxes, and living expenses.
I have no sympathy for those who walk around waiting for a handout, along with an opportunity to sell drugs, panhandle, and commit other crimes.
These, in particular, should not be called the "less fortunate." These are criminals, period.
Absolutely, there are a hell of a lot more kooks locating in Duluth at the present than ever before. Why not? They can get free or reduced housing and bennies by shacking up with someone on public assistance, staying at a mission or a friend's house...or even the wethouse.
Please, don't try to convince either myself or anyone else that the realities we see with our own eyes don't exist. They do, no matter how much one tries to sugar-coat them.
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Sat Jun 28 21:40:07 2008 - [Same old DFL failure won't help Duluth] By: Pitt Street Panther |
Mr. Wrestling II,
How would you suggest Duluth better itself?
Many of the less fortunate you refer to come to Duluth for a better life. I have no problem with that if they're here to work. Otherwise I shouldn't have to pay for every social service seeker that locates here.
It’s unfortunate that the DFL control here hasn’t done as good a job or better at attracting employers as they have with providing AFSCME jobs for all the government and non-profits that benefit from providing social services.
Everyday there’s somekind of violent crime happening, bad streets, insufficient sewers and more. The DFL gets credit where credit is due, good or bad. The DFL isn’t the DFL I grew up with and today’s DFL is responsible the decaying condition of our city.
Duluth cannot better itself with the same old DFL failure of resenting all the people.
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Sat Jun 28 19:33:44 2008 - [Amusing how defensive about statements] By: Big Iron |
It's amusing how defensive Dumb gets when he's called on the outrageous statements that he makes.
STARFIRE: Big Iron, Which statements are you referring to? I am just curious because like you, Dumb posts a lot here and I for one would be curious to know what exactly you are referring to as outrageous. Thanks. |
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Sat Jun 28 17:49:00 2008 - [We probably have more in common] By: Mr. Wrestling II |
Mr. Moderator:
That's my point, we all know whats going on, so why bother with people like Hillsider? All I was showing D & D is how it looks when he blogs. I bet that D & D and I have more in common than not, but really, state the facts and quit the rhetoric.
Yes, the more things change the more they stay the same. Just some people have a hard time taking the blinders off.
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Sat Jun 28 16:55:35 2008 - [Full of "holes" and misconceptions] By: Still Dumb enough to be living with the |
Unintentionally pushed a button on Mr. Westling II and not only does he come off like the moron he accuses me of being but with his language and accusations sounds much like the thug that tried to hit a friend in the face through a open vehicle window after he nicely tried to tell the guy he didn't have any cigarettes. The punk didn't want the cigarette, he wanted to rob my friend and steal the car, most likely!
Unlike the DNT, here are some swear to God truths:
Point of interest one-Do not and could not afford to live on Island Lake!
Point of interest two-drive a 17 year old passenger sedan with 165,000 miles on it.
Point of interest three-have owned real estate in Duluth, both commercial and homestead.
Point of interest four-The word Duluth has been in my address for 56 years.
Point of interest five-I have survived under the toughest conditions a corrupt City could screw someone over with!!!!!!
So don't feed me the get out of my Escalade crap, cause I've had to have a crow bar in my hand several times to protect my property, God given rights, and equal a situation to a peaceful resolution. That's the kind of Duluth neighborhoods I've survived in. And you Sir Westling II are full of DNT crap if you want the readers to believe it has been this bad since the 60's.
Mr. Westling II, you may think I come off as a Big Shot and I am unhappy about that, but that is your rightfully deserved opinion. The way your blog reads my rightful opinion is you are the one who deserves the title, "Big Shot" today, along with all the air you've blown around!!!!
I feel bad about your defensiveNe$$, like the Ne$$ administration, the Status Quo, the Unions, and the DNT, it is fearfully full of reality "holes", and total misconceptions.
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Sat Jun 28 15:18:08 2008 - [Duluth full of drug dealers since 60s] By: Mr. Wrestling II |
Dumb and Dumber:
It may be best if you don't drive downtown or anywhere else in the city from now on. You don't like seeing drunks, punks, gangs, drug dealers and panhandlers? Damn boy, where have you been? Its been this way since the 60's you moron.
You try and act like your Mr. Big Shot, but your nothing more than a big blow hard. Like you really have a clue what is happening on the streets? All you do is drive by in your Escalade and smirk at the less fortunate. Why don't you pull that fat ass of yours out of your fancy car and talk to some people less fortunate then you? Nah, that would be asking too much.
As you drive home tonite on your way to Island Lake, why don't you ask yourself one question..... Why do I care about Duluth, when I live at Island Lake? DUHHHHHHHHHH
MODERATOR: Mr. Wrestling II, there seems to be some confusion. The DNT, as well as the last and current mayors have been saying that these problems do not exist and that Duluth has no crime problems. If indeed you are correct that these problems have been around since the 60s, then who is really telling the truth, you or the DNT and mayors? |
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Sat Jun 28 13:46:15 2008 - [DCB brings out truths that DNT won't] By: Dumb and Dumber |
It's Dumb but the only place harassment takes place against the DFL, the Dumber Fleecing Liers, is this blog site, and the back rooms of local political discussion. Lately the DNT has actually allowed some stories not favorable to the DFL and their corrupt crew, probably because with the DCB here it would become news anyways! They are quick to downplay or change the subject, but at least they are not hiding, twisting, distorting, or telling flat out lies about some news.
Hillsider tells us the "whole" good of Duluth is being tarnished by a few. Damn Dumber Straight, yet the perfect day, perfect way, Hillsider has a 180 degree finger pointing problem as he, she, it defends the DFL "few" who are the ones actually putting, and turning much of Duluth, into a hopeless, scrary "hole"!!!
If first impressions matter, which we all know they do, the drunk who as urinating on the 1st Street sidewalk between 2nd and 3rd Ave's East at around 11:00 a.m., Monday, then could not stand, which brought a tax expensive three man DFD rescue squad, which was at the scene for 20 minutes before an ambulance came and took the inebrated person away, leaves a nasty, lasting, bad impression on me!!!! So does driving or walking around Downtown and much of the City any day!! Punks, Gangs, drug dealers, panhandlers, drunks, every other block! You worry about stopping for a light as you try to avoid potential conflict from an undesired exchange with these folks! Don't see it in Rochester, St. Cloud, Fargo, but then again they are "growing" communities without Ne$$ type "progreessive" pandering running their Cities!! What good does taxing the piss out of only some Waterfront District property owners, getting grants to pick up cigarette butts, further ruining struggling neighborhoods, driving business away, cheating and lying to people, high cost social services programs plus budgets, and all in the name of corrupt to the core Unconstitutional Business Improvement Districts, Tax Dollar Guarranteed Corporate Profit Wethouses, and Unaffordable, Dead End, Government Controled, Union Job Security!!!
Dumb Duluth is not bad as a "whole", but the percentage that is bad exceeds that of any other City it's size and population I know!!!!! |
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Sat Jun 28 10:39:39 2008 - [DFL similar to government of Zimbabwe] By: Ben Dover |
Hillsider: YOu must be a product of the DFL Dave's school of spin. When you say that others "adopted" my creative ideas, that is about as good of a choice of words as Donny Boy when he uses the word "courage" to thank his DFL team of council operatives to help hose, by extortion, the taxpayers. That spin may work between you and your boyfriends, but I think most here can easily recognize the pattern.
With your line of reasoning I could call you an "Idiot" and you would print a shirt and wear it around to somehow mysteriously make others who have no idea as to why some buffoon would wear a shirt with "Idiot" written on it around town to negate an effect you claim was "maliciously" intended. Give it up. If you can't argue a point with facts and only choose to try to spin the argument, I am not interested. We have had decades of DFL government control, similar in many ways to the government of Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe that has used these same tactics. Election manipulation, harassment, money, control and power.
By the way, since you claim that harassment goes both ways, would you be so kind to provide information about just ONE case of a DFLer who has faced harassment at the hands of someone from the other side? It is well known that DFLers harass their own to keep them in check, but please back up your statement. I anxiously await your answer. |
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Sat Jun 28 10:37:36 2008 - ["Distinguished Free Loader"] By: can't you see the light |
Seems to me that DFL stands for "Distinguished Free Loader"
Boy is that fitting isn't it. |
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Sat Jun 28 10:31:36 2008 - [Stabbing] By: Locals Gone Wild |
Police investigate stabbing
Duluth police are investigating a stabbing that occurred near 22nd Avenue West and Third Street about 10 p.m. Thursday.
A man was transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening wounds, Duluth Deputy Police Chief John Beyer said.
Beyer said witnesses reported that the man got into an argument that escalated. The victim received two puncture wounds.
Lemonade stand will serve as fundraiserfor police canine operations
Last year, two Lincoln Park youths raised $600 for the Duluth Police Department at their lemonade stand in Lincoln Park.
Today, they hope to repeat their successful venture.
The two will be selling lemonade beginning at 11 a.m. at the corner of 24th Avenue West and Second Street. The lemonade stand is a fundraiser for the police department’s canine operations.
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Sat Jun 28 09:25:29 2008 - [Strong Arm Robbery] By: Locals Gone Wild |
DATE: 06/28/08
SUBJECT: Strong Arm Robbery
CASE #: 08302189
INCIDENT DATE: 06/28/08
INCIDENT TIME: 0025
INCIDENT LOCATION: Little Store / 7002 Grand Av.
NATURE OF INCIDENT: Strong Arm Robbery
BY: Sgt. Jayme Carlson
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Description:
On June 28, 2008 at 0025 hours, Duluth Police responded to the report of a Strong Arm Robbery at the Little Store, 7002 Grand Av. The victim, who is a clerk at the store, had closed the store for the night and was walking to his car when he was attacked by several males who stole his wallet. With the assistance of a Duluth Police K-9 and information given by the victim, four suspects were located
at a residence a short distance away. Two adult males were lodged at the St. Louis Jail and two juvenile males were lodged at Arrowhead juvenile Center. Charges of Simple Robbery and 5th Degree Assault are pending against all four suspects. |
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Sat Jun 28 01:52:35 2008 - [DDD Episode #49-Spencie not a real name ] By: Danny G |
DANNY DOES DULUTH-EPISODE 49-Spencie Is Not A Real Name
The countdown is on. Next week we present to you, the faithful DDD listeners, the Episode 50 ExtravaDANza! Until then sit back, relax, and enjoy Episode 49's offerings. On this show:
-Danny missed a shout out to DDD on the KDAL Morning Show
-Ashley found a new favorite Northland podcast
-DNT Headline: Danny Was Right
-"Spencie" is not a real name
-Time to play the Shannon Murphy Dirty Word Game
Enjoy!
www.dannydoesduluth.com
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www.lewlattolive.com |
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Sat Jun 28 00:14:17 2008 - [6 pack of courage again] By: Greyeagle |
| Hillslider must have drank his 6 pack of courage again. |
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Fri Jun 27 22:08:56 2008 - [The harassment goes both ways] By: Hillsider |
Adam, I'll tell you like I told Ben: If you say so, buddy. However, trying to define me by whatever misconceived notion that you may have doesn't help your argument.
In any case, the harassment goes both ways. You seem to spend a lot of time judging the whole by the actions of a few.
Ben, the "adoption" of your maliciously intended slurs and jabs by their intended target diminishes their effect. This has been done for decades by target groups such as ethnic minorities and others of so-called "alternative lifestyles." To suggest that they've somehow "stolen" from you is arrogant at best, which, considering the source is no big surprise. |
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Fri Jun 27 21:18:11 2008 - [DFL thuggery is all make believe] By: Adam R |
Hillsider, Yea, you're probably right. The FACT that dogs have been shot, homes paint balled, threatening phone calls including death threats, persecution at work and the like are all just make believe. You keep on believing that.
And the FACT that they all share one common denominator, that the victims were all standing up to the thuggery that many of you Kool-aid drinkers call the DFL. Keep up the good work!
You sound more and more like a Communist party member in the Soviet Union in the late 80s. Take note what happened there in just a few short years and how must resentment finally took down the Party when people learned the truth.
History tends to repeat itself, Bucko! |
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Fri Jun 27 20:49:11 2008 - [More t-shirt ideas from a PDDer] By: PBYarr |
Couple more:
DCB: Free speech for all.
DCB: State of the art technology in todays world!
DCB: Where right is right and left is just a sickness.
STARFIRE: PBYarr, Thanks for the ideas. You prove that at least one from your side is at least a little open minded.
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Fri Jun 27 20:48:22 2008 - [With t-shirt route, you lose anonymity] By: Hillsider |
Ben: If you say so, buddy.
So far as your tshirt ideas go, consider this: You all thrive on and to a large degree depend on the anonymity that this blog affords you for some degree of perceived "protection" from a threat of "repercussion" because of the way you think. The slogans are all clever, to some small degree but do you really want to forfeit anonymity to make a social statement?
If you indeed go the tshirt route, you'll lose a lot of that anonymity, unless of course you choose to only wear the shirts around your house...and the guy pointing and laughing at you as you walk down the street...yeah, that'll be me.
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Fri Jun 27 18:04:26 2008 - [T-shirt ideas for the DCB] By: The Great Cornholio |
Hey Tony and moderators. Here are more t-shirt ideas I came up with.
DCB: A world class blog for world class people.
DCB: Exposing the NE$$ ME$$
DCB: The only thing that is truly "fresh" in Duluth.
You can run but you can't hide from the DCB
PDD'ers shutter in fear of the DCB.
STARFIRE: The Great Cornholio, Thanks for your input. Bloggers like you help the DCB "thrive" and provide others the opportunity to know the truth about the city of Duluth.
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Fri Jun 27 17:29:24 2008 - [A Yellow Belly some call Ne$$$$$$$$$] By: Al R |
Ne$$$$$$$ is beginning to make himself unavailable. He is now going to give his assessments without the hassle of answering to the public in person. Yellow Belly.
Ness to give second assessment update
Duluth News Tribune
Published Friday, June 27, 2008
Don Ness is going straight to video.
The Duluth mayor will tape his second state of the city update to air on PACT-TV as part of his “Duluth — This is Your City” show. |
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Fri Jun 27 17:17:11 2008 - [Who is "creative" and who longs to be?] By: Ben Dover |
Hillsider: Really.
A lot of folks in Duluth have claimed to be the "creative" types and although I had never considered myself as such previously, I now understand that if I am not part of the "creative class", nobody else who claims to be in Duluth is either. How can these other self proclaimed ones claim to be creative when they steal or borrow almost every one of my ideas?
It stems from a couple years back when folks like Claire, who claims to be one of Duluth's creative types, saw that she was given a new name with a catchy sound, Carrboro Claire. She immediately started using this handle for blogging at DRR, Duluth Rump Runners, I surmise, because of the way it rolls off ones lips when it is pronounced, C-A-R-R-B-O-R-O Claire. Although she did not want to admit that Ben created such an appropriate handle for her, she dropped the use of it when Ben brought this fact to her attention. The fact that she quit using it after Ben brought it to her attention was an admission of who the creative one really is.
Then we have the group formerly known as the PDD crowd. Once Ben coined the name Duluth Rump Runners, all of those self proclaimed "creative ones" jumped on the band wagon and started using the name too. Heck, their leader Mr. Starfire even discussed making Rump Runner t-shirts. That was, until it was pointed out to him that this was not his creative genius, but rather a creative masterpiece from a certain Ben Dover. He, like Carrboro, dropped his bid to make the t-shirts when it was revealed that Ben was indeed the architect.
Just look at the Rump Runner site and their banner points out what Ben had originally pointed out long ago. That they are a bunch of trust funders and welfare sucking parasites. Once again, they took the idea from a true and proven member of our "creative class."
I could go on and on, but how could anyone with half a brain argue that Ben Dover is not one of the most "creative" members in the area.
Ask yourself honestly, who is really "creative" and I will tell you who longs to be. |
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Fri Jun 27 17:10:05 2008 - [In Duluth, most are fooled all the time] By: Voter |
| I've heard Ne$$ and the Ne$$ crowd say how Duluth needs a more diverse community to survive. Bottom line we are just too white. Anyway while checking some statistics for Vallejo CA which had to file bankruptcy I figured I'd see if they had a diverse community. Remember Ne$$ and crew say we need this diversity for our community to thrive. Here are some of the rounded of figures: Vallejo Ca......White 30 percent, Black 24 percent, Hispanic 16 percent, other races 8 percent, two or more races 7 percent, Asian 1 percent, Chinese 1 percent. Now it just doesn't get any more diverse than this yet all that diversity did not save the city from bankruptcy. Ne$$ and his room full of fools continue the business of trying to make fools of us all. You know the old saying you can fool some of the people some of the time........OK OK in Duluth you can fool most of the people most of the time. ha ha ho ho ho he he he |
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Fri Jun 27 17:03:49 2008 - [Credit card girls look black and white ] By: Former Chamber Member |
Credit card girls look black and white to me.
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/articles/includes/full_photo.cfm?id=21256 |
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Fri Jun 27 15:53:44 2008 - [Can be done with volunteer FD] By: Ret. VF |
In tomorrow's DNT or online today you will read Duluth firefighters - with assistance from Lakewood, Normanna and Rice Lake Township volunteer fire departments - extinguish a fire in the attic in a home on Lester River Road this morning. "BOB KING/NEWS TRIBUNE
So, it can be done with volunteer fire departments. Even DFP realizes the importance of Volunteers. |
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Fri Jun 27 15:38:11 2008 - [Slavery was everyone’s sin] By: EMU |
MORE RACIST CRAP FROM THE DNT. HOW CAN THEY SAY "OUR" VIEW? THIS IS AGENDA DRIVEN BIASED CRAP.
Our view: Juneteenth celebration — even on the 20th — is for all of us
Our View, Duluth News Tribune
Published Saturday, June 21, 2008
After 26.2 miles of pavement-pounding, chafing, blistering, sweat-stinging-the-eyes marathon running, a trek up Duluth’s hillside — even just a few blocks to the Central Hillside Community Center at Lake Avenue and Fourth Street — may seem a lot to ask. It may even seem cruel.
But go anyway, even if you weren’t among the thousands running the 32nd Grandma’s Marathon today or among the tens of thousands cheering or volunteering so race day went off smoothly. Go and join Duluth’s commemoration of Juneteenth, the annual observance of the day in 1865 when slaves in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom — nearly three years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on Sept. 22, 1862, and more than two years after it took effect on Jan. 1, 1863.
The actual date when 2,000 Union troops, under the command of Gen. Gordon Granger, took control of Galveston Island and freed the last African slaves was June 19, 1865 — more than two months after the Civil War officially ended.
Considering how long those enslaved were made to wait, it’s safe to say they wouldn’t mind Duluth commemorating the anniversary a day late — especially this year when it means activities can be held on a Saturday when more people have the opportunity to participate.
Those activities, from noon to 7 p.m. today, include musicians, dancing, karaoke and free food.
In Duluth, the celebration has been hosted through the years primarily, but by no means exclusively, by the city’s black residents. Across the country, a movement to make Juneteenth a national holiday has led to its celebration in 29 states.
Wherever the anniversary is noted, participants and others can be reminded: Slavery was everyone’s sin. Its end is a celebration for us all.
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Fri Jun 27 14:09:28 2008 - [Police don't want to agitate the public] By: TSG |
If you read todays DNT m m check out the story by Micahel Kooi under Local View. It explains much about the attitude of the local police. It would be my suspicion that the three women were women of color and the police do not want to further agitate the public. Here is a quote from the article regarding the recent murder.
“Unless you’re involved in that … world, you don’t have to be concerned with that kind of violence coming your way,” Sgt. Bob Shene explained in a News Tribune story (“Police say shooting is ‘puzzling,’” June 17). A related department news release urged additional calm, stressing that “the general public is at no greater safety risk now than they normally would be because of this incident.”
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/articles/index.cfm?id=69279§ion=Opinion |
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Fri Jun 27 10:12:02 2008 - [Reflection in the blog "Fantasy America"] By: More Reflections |
| When does an idiot, flawed character, pig cornhole callin', clueless, Big Crap Scrap Iron think it is time to correct an idiotic statement? Just after seeing his reflection in the blog "Fantasy America"!! |
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Fri Jun 27 09:38:26 2008 - [Give us at least a basic description ] By: m m |
i see in the duluth rag this morning there was a purse snatching in canal park last saturday night and soon after a credit card from the victim was used at a local convenience store. the rag gives us a description of the vehicle the three women who tried to use the card were driving, but there is nowhere in the story any description of the women, or the purse snatcher for that matter.
you'd think if we the public are being asked to notify police if we spot these thieves they'd at least give us something to work with. i can't imagine why they wouldn't give us at least a basic description of what these crooks look like or were wearing can you?. oh well, i'll just keep looking for three women driving a green car....be safe out there |
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Fri Jun 27 09:03:49 2008 - [The shoe wears out] By: Danny G |
| Regarding the "If the shoe fits..." analogy, please realize that shoes wear out and you have to get new ones. |
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Fri Jun 27 07:53:17 2008 - [Creative Class?] By: Hillsider |
Ben, "Creative Class?"
Really? |
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Fri Jun 27 01:50:44 2008 - [How much does a lawn on a roof cost?] By: Dead Inside |
| I wonder how much it costs to put a lawn on a government building roof? Who's going to mow it? |
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Thu Jun 26 23:13:02 2008 - [Ne$$ is "alternative" spelling for Ne$$] By: Ben Dover |
Danny: I will leave the question about your status as a D-bag to others, but I have to disagree with you on your point. The only thing that upsets me about the Ne$$ thing is that I did not come up with it. As a member of Duluth's "creative class" and supporter of a "thriving community" in Duluth, I believe it is important that Donny Boy Ne$$ gets full credit for excessive extortion of Duluth's working class and this "Ne$$ thing", as you refer to it, is perfect to tag him for his parasitic money grubbing and frivolous spending during his years of being an elected official of this city. As the city continues its slide Southward, I look forward to more usage of "Ne$$" and hope it would be an alternative spelling of his name in not only the DCB, but at the Rump Runners and the DNT as well.
By the way, how is Ne$$ coming on that little $300,000,00.00 health care debt? Man, this shit is getting fun to watch. I can't wait for more bills to come due and payable. For those you don't know, it's called Vallejo or bust!!!!!!
How about that motel guy, did the city get him paid yet after they tried to steal his land? Come on Ne$$, get the checkbook out and have the "courage" to "spread the pain" out to the taxpayers. LOL |
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Thu Jun 26 21:25:24 2008 - [Ne$$ is really getting old and lame] By: Danny G |
Ok...not to be a D-Bag, and please don't take this personally, but the "Ness with the dollar signs" thing (NE$$) is really, really getting old and lame. And I don't even like the guy.
STARFIRE: Danny, Thanks for the comment. Now lets get back to letting bloggers talk about the Ne$$ Me$$ and everything else Me$$y about Ne$$y. Ready, set, PAY! I learned a saying a long time ago and it goes something like, "If the shoe fits..." And boy does it fit. |
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Thu Jun 26 19:58:00 2008 - [Oh, what a big Ne$$ Duluth is in] By: LIB Reader Online |
This writer hits Ne$$ and followers right between the eyes with a 2 X 4. Oh, what a big Ne$$ Duluth is in.
The way things are going maybe Mayor Ne$$ isn't cut out of the me$$ he helped make over the past 8 plus years. One term is too many and two terms won't be enough.
More reason to read the LIB online for free, save the trees, some energy and of course some money for Ne$$ and the city.
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Readers' views
Duluth News Tribune
Published Thursday, June 26, 2008
City should look to public for sewer solution
Regarding Mayor Don Ness’ disappointment at the denial of his plan to comply with the Environmental Protection Agency’s demand (“Councilors nix sewer charge,” May 28, and “Ness asks councilors for options,” May 29), there has to be a different way to solve Duluth’s sewer overflow problem other than the easy paint-roller approach.
How about taking the $64 million estimated solution and dividing it by the number of properties on the tax rolls? That would be the answer. Who all would be included in such a calculation? Homeowners, businesses and nonprofits.
Are we in Duluth being asked to pay for Hermantown’s inflow and infiltration? Or Cloquet’s? Wrenshall’s? Scanlon’s? Those communities are connected to the network culminating at Western Lake Superior Sanitary District. WLSSD is a governmental body that has authority over the water quality within its boundaries. Why does it seem that Duluth is being singled out as the only point at which the problem is occurring?
Perhaps this is a good time for the city to hold a rummage sale. It could sell the First Street parking lot, the Great Lakes Aquarium and a lot of other ill-advised adventures the City Council and previous administrations loaded onto taxpayers’ backs. The city is responsible for carrying out the functions for which it was created, not for investing in schemes or projects pushed by the few at the risk of all.
On retirement incomes, people cannot be treated as percentage figures. With an annual income of $175,000, $4-a-gallon gasoline may not be so bad. But on a retirement of $20,000, $4 a gallon is pretty stiff. Now tack on the no-new-taxes pledge that nearly doubled property taxes, the electric utility hike and Ness’ proposed — and rejected — $9.70-a-month sewer charge, and the city about killed any cooperation it may have hoped for from the public.
The public may have answers to the problems. But the city has to listen.
ORSON R. LEE
DULUTH
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Thu Jun 26 19:03:35 2008 - [Can't help correcting idiotic statements] By: Big Iron |
| Need a tissue, Jim P? It's a character flaw, Cornhole. I just can't help correcting idiotic statements. |
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Thu Jun 26 16:58:47 2008 - [Duluth's Welcome to Fantasy America ] By: Fantasy American Reflections |
Welcome to America Jim P., no matter what Voter feels, Spencie Walker gets a free attorney, medical care, shelter, food, and the right to exercise with a tear, more civil liberties than Boodie or a majority of the tax payers who are footing his bill. I have a friend who has worked extremely hard right up until recently when he became very ill. He is working class poor, his son and doctor are trying to convince him not to end his life just because he does not want to be a burden to himself and his family. They can't afford the medical care! The only way the Voyager Motel could defend itself from being robbed was to spend thousands on an attorney, they now, thanks to incredible City greed, suffer unfair competition and economic hardship! Where's their free attorney or do they need to shoot someone in order to "get it for free"! What controls America today is a "Fantasy of Freedom". It is something taken for granted, assumed as a right, and done at the cost of liberty for all! Some of us like Voter still have a sense of rightousness that is based on personal dignity and respect of others, no matter what color you are. Duluth's Welcome to Fantasy America is the reason Spencie Walker is not working 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. for $6.50 an hour, because drugs pay way more and this has nothing to do with some patronizing fantasy drug dealer description Jim P. gives. No wonder Voter feels ill!
In closing, my friend deserves to live, the Voyager deserved that which was rightfully theirs, and people like Spencie Walker deserve a fair trial. But in a "community" where you spend millions to hide drunks and the truth, millions to destroy human digity and personal rights, and millions to satisfy the greed of a City, we deserve to go broke trying to protect those who needed to learn much earlier how to have dignity and respect for others. Our steadfast Unions, our corrupt City Administration, the quasi racist Jim P., and Spencie Walker are a sad reflection of our broken America!! |
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Thu Jun 26 15:33:53 2008 - ["We" gotcha] By: Voter |
| Jim P., Ya right "buddy". "We" gotcha. |
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Thu Jun 26 13:09:13 2008 - [More severe fire damage lately] By: can't you see the light |
| I'm surprised no one on here has commented about the article in the DNT on fire damage we've seen lately. It sure seems like there has been more severe fires and more extensive damage. |
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Thu Jun 26 12:02:27 2008 - [Constitutional rights apply to everyone] By: Jim P |
| Voter: we get it, you don't like black people. You don't think this person deserves the same constitutional rights as everyone, including yourself is afforded in this country. I would hope to god he got a free lawyer because i would expect the same thing. that is the legal process man, welcome to America!! I don't like what happened anymore than you do, these drug dealers, or so they like to call themselves because I see them as nothing more than overgrown adolecents living some wild fantasy they saw in movies, are dangerous people and need to be behind bars. But we have a process that needs to be followed and that means everyone, regardless of color, is entitled to an attorney. Guess what voter, crime will remain in our society with or without black people, get with the program buddy!! |
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Thu Jun 26 10:08:13 2008 - [A "homegrown" murderer who lost his way] By: Voter |
| Ya and you know who is going to pay all the doctor and hospital bills for this piece of crap murderer and probably the one he murdered. Then the taxpayer can get ready for an expensive trial where he will receive a free lawyer. It is just too bad that bullet didn't pass though this slime bags heart before it exited his body. Oh that's right he's just another "homegrown" murderer who lost his way. Yes it is funny how the rag is now making a point to show he may actually be from out of state. Hmmmm wonder why that is? Could it be because he is black and they don't want people to think "homegrown" blacks are killers. I'm getting sick to my stomach gotta go. |
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Thu Jun 26 09:34:16 2008 - [The city is locked in on this deal] By: BC |
| Tom T Union 300 million, City taxpayers 0 will also be the end game score. The best attorney in the world will not be able to unravel this retiree health care me$$$$$$$$$$ Ne$$$$$$$$$$$$ helped get us into. The city is locked in on this deal. |
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Thu Jun 26 09:21:47 2008 - [Build it, they and/or their mama come] By: LIB Reader Online |
Build it, they and/or their mama come. Provide support services after support services they and/or their mama come. This could have easily been a larger multi murder scene.
Thank you Alan Netland and AFSCME for making Duluth what it is today. You are a reason why I read the LIB online for free, so you can extort more money, but I am saving the trees and energy.
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Central Hillside murder: Drug deal turned deadly quickly
Mark Stodghill Duluth News Tribune
Published Thursday, June 26, 2008
A tear ran down Spencie Walker’s right cheek and he buried it in the shoulder of his blue jailhouse jumpsuit Wednesday morning in a St. Louis County courtroom.
Only the 21-year-old Walker knows whether the tear resulted from the predicament he’s in, from the death he’s accused of causing, or both.
Walker was charged Wednesday with two counts of second-degree murder in the shooting of Stanley Boody in what police describe as a failed drug deal. It was Duluth’s first homicide of the year.
Boody, 35, of Duluth, was shot June 14 in an apartment at 227 W. Third St. and died the next day after about five hours of surgery.
According to the criminal complaint, Boody had set up a marijuana sale at the apartment. When the marijuana was laid on the floor, Walker took out a
.45-caliber handgun, pointed it at the people in the room and spoke words to the effect that he was not playing, he was going to rob them and that he would kill all of them.
Walker struck an unidentified victim in the head with the gun. As that victim was bleeding and fell, Boody tried to intervene and jumped at the defendant. A struggle ensued and two shots were fired. One shot struck Walker and exited through his back.
The other bullet traveled from the right side of Boody’s back to his upper left bicep, where it lodged. The preliminary cause of death has been ruled exsanguination — loss of blood.
Walker spent a week recovering in a Duluth hospital and was arrested Saturday when he was discharged.
St. Louis County prosecutor Mark Rubin told St. Louis County Judicial Officer Gerald Maher that Walker is an extreme threat to public safety and requested that bail be set at $300,000. Maher granted the request.
Walker has a Duluth address, but Rubin said he is originally from another state and didn’t appear to have a permanent residence in the area.
Police officers recovered two .45-caliber shell casings at the shooting scene. They also found the gun in the basement area of the home with a round in the chamber, rounds in the magazine and the hammer cocked.
Rubin told Maher that Walker claims to have been shot by a stranger at the door of the apartment. Rubin said Walker continued to be hostile toward law enforcement when he was arrested after running from the scene.
Walker is accused of intentional second-degree murder and second-degree murder while committing or attempting to commit aggravated robbery. His next court appearance is scheduled for July 14.
St. Louis County Attorney Melanie Ford said no decision has been made on whether to convene a grand jury to consider a first-degree murder charge against Walker.
“Right now, the Duluth Police Department has an ongoing investigation and we will continue to carefully review reports as we get them from the Police Department,’’ Ford said. “If the evidence warrants first-degree murder charges, then we will make a decision whether or not to convene a grand jury.’’
MARK STODGHILL covers public safety and courts. He can be reached weekdays at (218) 723-5333 or by e-mail at mstodghill@duluthnews.com.
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Thu Jun 26 08:09:22 2008 - [The forgotten $300 million issue] By: Tom T |
| Hey Duluth Admin/Council, How's that Out of Town Attorney working out on the health care issue? Union 300 million, City taxpayers 0 Thanks. |
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Thu Jun 26 01:03:06 2008 - [Funny how Big Iron gets defensive] By: The Great Cornholio |
| I always find it amusing how defensive Big Iron gets when county employee issues are discussed. |
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Thu Jun 26 00:55:57 2008 - [DNT, the Ministry of Truth] By: The Great Cornholio |
| Concerning the politically correct BS being spoon fed by the DNT to the general public. What else would you expect from the Ministry of Truth ? |
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Thu Jun 26 00:43:13 2008 - [Working middle class get less, pay more] By: Dumb and Dumber |
Whoa, Big Iron!
First of all, if your blog name ain't Bob H. you might want to check blog #73370, titled "Unsubstantiate That" where you will see the task to unsubstanciate County "AND" City Employment numbers in Duluth Proper wasn't any of your business anyway!!
Secondly, I nicely tried to bring the word "combined" in to assist those Dumber enough not to know the definition of the word "AND"!! Then I'm accused of playing "that game"?!! What game?!! Is the game like the DFL Bill Clinton Game, where it depends what the meaning of is, is?!! Webster's dictionary definition of the word "AND"--conj.1.ALONG WITH!!!!! How much closer to "combined" does one need to be with you, Big? I don't play games with folks who can not comprehend plain English and who just want to play immature games to try to make people steam like an, Iron!!
Thirdly, where do you come off with it's funny I didn't know most County employees live on the Range. When I wrote, "these bullshit advertising, under worked and over paid AFSCME workers do not as a majority live in Duluth", you first spout off that I'm right on one thing, then next spout, it's funny I didn't know they mostly resided on the Range. Frankly Big Iron, I don't care where they live, I care that St. Louis County taxes are high for a County that runs greater than 60 percent of their budget too Social Services while their basic infrastructure and accountability is erroding nearly as badly as Duluth's!!!
If you wanna play Dumber games get an AFSCME job with the City "OR" the County, you might make enough money "AND" benefits to live in Duluth Proper "AND" The Range with full no deductable health, eye "AND" dental coverage!! Get my point yet, "OR", "AND"? Sorry, no time to play, I'm too busy trying to get people to see the corrupt crap brought us in return for our taxes, and why we, the working middle class taxpayer, should not keep getting less, when we pay way more!!! |
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Thu Jun 26 00:31:08 2008 - [Wonder if BS reads his own paper] By: Kane |
quote from tomorrow's DNT story about our recent murder..."Walker has a Duluth address, but Rubin said he is originally from another state and didn’t appear to have a permanent residence in the area".
I wonder if BS, hey nice initials, reads his own paper..the killer is NOT from Duluth. |
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Wed Jun 25 22:10:19 2008 - [1 in 4 workers is a government employee] By: Voter |
| I did read once that the largest employer in Duluth or the Duluth area I don't remember exactly was the Government. The figure was in the local rag which means it had to be correct. Right? Anyway it said one in four workers was some kind of government employee. I would think they figured in things such as Coast Guard Base, Air National Guard, Airport, all state, county and city workers who work in Duluth, UMD, Tech College, many of those that work for non-profits are paid by the government. If you think about it the list would be very long. If someone cared to do the research maybe they could find the statistics some place or find the article in the archives of the local paper. I don't feel like spending a lot of time on it in this nice weather. There probably is some government employee who knows the exact numbers somewhere. |
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Wed Jun 25 09:08:07 2008 - [DDD Episode #48-Heffernan retired?] By: Danny G |
DANNY DOES DULUTH-EPISODE 48-
I THOUGHT JIM HEFERNAN RETIRED 2 YEARS AGO
Another late-night episode of Danny goodness for your listening enjoyment. Only two episodes to go until the exciting Episode 50 ExtravaDANza! Too bad we have absolutely no clue what we're going to do to make it so exciting. Oh well. There's time. Until then, on this show:
-Ashley wants to write for the Duluth News Tribune
-Kids do the darnedest things...like mail theft
-Danny compares KQ's Trainwreck to Groucho Marx and ends up confusing Ashley...and himself
-Don Donny Ness's 4th Official Ego Boost Meeting
-Crime in Central Hillside? Say it ain't so!
Enjoy!
www.dannydoesduluth.com
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www.lewlattolive.com |
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Wed Jun 25 08:28:53 2008 - [SMDC & St. Lukes are largest employer] By: Big Iron |
| If you want to play that game, Dumb, SMDC and St. Lukes "COMBINED" are the largest employer of people in Duluth proper. Perhaps a little research would be in order before spouting off, Dumber. To go along with that, funny you didn't know that there are far more County employees living in the Range area than the Duluth area. |
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Wed Jun 25 00:33:22 2008 - [Just plain heartwarmin'!] By: Dumb and Dumber |
Had I used the word combined, which was why I wrote "The County and the City are the largest employers", I beleive these two AFSCME LACK OFF ACTION PACKED Governmental bodies "COMBINED" are the largest employer of people in Duluth proper. To further the point, SMDC has some union labor and most positions there pay better than "low income". With all these great paying jobs, why does Duluth have twice plus the average rate of low income? What's with all the wasted socialist minimum wage talk from our leadership? Perhaps Big Iron will be so kind as to inform Dumb, the Dumber name represents those of the current controling midset of County and Duluth leadership, and they listen to no one but themselves!! Dumb must be Dumb to still live in Duluth, but at least Dumb isn't like The Dumber who sit by and say nothing as the City is lead into planned bankruptcy and slumDumberdum. All these Dumber folks haven't been listening or paying attention to anything but their special interest causes for close to 30 years!
POLYANNA IM, keep studing, but any City that can elect, with 17 percent of its voters, a new mayor who had accomplished nothing in 8 years of directly prior City Council service, but blatant contribution to City crippling special interest, means it must be either real Dumber or just plain Dumb!
Can't afford to leave Duluth so to keep my family safe I need to go study for my Carry Permit! Beats the B.S. open door media crap of some gal giving Ne$$ $100.00 to save the Lake. She'll have $8100.00 in her sewer repair if she owns a home that is targeted for runoff and the Lake will still suffer due to Duluths' inability to sustain any where near accountable infrastructure!! Just plain heartwarmin'!
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Tue Jun 24 15:20:16 2008 - [NO accountability in this town] By: POLLYANNA IM |
Why Duluthians always voter for labor candidates? A very good question. I have studied this for years and I believe that the working stiffs of Duluth are very optimistic and caring not stupid as many on this blog have supposed.
They have believed that by voting for "Labor endorsed" candidates that somehow they would be personally benefitted as the working class. Many don't realize just how self serving the local labor unions have been and by voting for labor they are pricing themselves and the government out of services. The local labor unions have also benefitted from their Chamber of Commerce connections as well as the nonprofits. Some have purchased homes built by HRA and received work from the nonprofits.
They work together on huge taxpayer funded projects and create an echo chamber saying all good things about the project but when the taxpayers get left holding the bag they hide out until the next project comes out. I would love to see they publically stated comments and compare their promises to the actual results.
There has been NO accountability in this town. I would like to know how many homeless LISC has created!!
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Tue Jun 24 14:33:21 2008 - [300' Rule money back process?] By: Emma |
| I would like to get my rental licnese money back. Dose anyone here know how do I go about get my money back on the 300' rental rule? Thank you. |
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Tue Jun 24 14:26:16 2008 - [Don't Let The Open Door Fool Ya] By: Rightfully Refunded |
| The guy who got robbed at knife point was on Channel Six 10:00 News last night. He told the reporter he was going to ask his landlord for his money back, because he couldn't live there. Think tonight I'll go to The Mayors "Don't Let The Open Door Fool Ya" Meeting and ask Ne$$ for my money back! |
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Tue Jun 24 11:54:59 2008 - [LGW, I raise my glass to you] By: Dead Inside |
| I'm glad that I can come to the DCB to see what the local newspaper prints every single day. It's so much easier to choose the DCB website from the dropdown box in the address bar instead of having to move my mouse another 2 or 3 millimeters to navigate to the DNT website. I think we owe a huge debt of gratitude to Locals Gone Wild for providing this necessary service for us all. LGW, I raise my glass to you, we are all much obliged. |
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Tue Jun 24 10:38:51 2008 - [Daylight Home Invasion Robbery] By: Locals Gone Wild |
Speaking of "Fresh" Duluth, who say Duluth doesn't have a crime problem? What a bunch of BS as there was another home invasion last night. What's the spin going to be, the criminal only used knives, not guns?
Just keep voting for politicans that are for more social problems and you'll get more social problems. Duluth is a great case study.
DATE: June 24, 2008
SUBJECT: Robbery
CASE #: 08-299100
INCIDENT DATE: June 23, 2008
INCIDENT TIME: 1838 hrs.
INCIDENT LOCATION: 119 E. 4 Street, Duluth
NATURE OF INCIDENT: Home Invasion
BY: Lieutenant Jenkins
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Description:
On June 23, 2008 @ 1838 hrs., Duluth Police responded to a report of a home-invasion robbery at 119 East 4th Street. The male victim had been sleeping and was awakened by two Black males, one of whom was armed with a small knife, who had entered the apartment through an unlocked door.
The suspects threatened the victim with the knife and demanded money.
The suspects fled the scene with the victim’s cellular phone and an undisclosed amount of cash, in a car parked in the area. The suspects were unknown to the victim, but referred to the victim by name during the robbery. Through their investigation, police believe this victim was specifically targeted rather than being a random event. The victim was not injured in the incident.
Persons with information relative to this incident or involving the identity of the involved suspect(s)
are asked to call the Duluth Police Violent Crimes Unit @ (218) 730-5050 |
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Tue Jun 24 10:29:58 2008 - [Shots Fired again in Duluth] By: Locals Gone Wild |
Lib Reader, you don't need to go to Fargo or Chicago to know we have big problems right here in "Fresh" Duluth though I did get a good laugh out of your post. Here's the latest from the hood.
DATE: June 24, 2008
SUBJECT: Shots Fired
CASE #: 08-299194
INCIDENT DATE: June 23, 2008
INCIDENT TIME: 2058 hrs.
INCIDENT LOCATION: N. 4th Avenue East / E. 8th Street, Duluth
NATURE OF INCIDENT: Shooting
BY: Lieutenant Jenkins
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Description:
On June 23, 2008, at 2058 hrs., Duluth Police responded to reports of "shots fired" in the area of North 4th Avenue East and East 8th Street. Police arrived in the area within seconds and found the suspects had already fled.
Police located various witnesses who desribed the incident as involving several Black males, both in vehicles and on foot, who were involved in a verbal confrontation resulting in at least one of the males displaying a small, miautomatic handgun, which was discharged multiple times and potentially in the direction of several other Black males who were on foot in the area.
Police remained in the area investigating the incident for more than two hours locating evidence, including numerous shell casings from a small caliber weapon and developing potential suspects.
There have been no reported or identified injuries resulting from this altercation.
This incident remains under investigation by the Duluth Police Department Violent Crimes Unit and police ask that any person(s) having information regarding this case, please contact the Violent Crimes Unit at (218) 730-5050. |
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Tue Jun 24 08:13:30 2008 - [Barnum & Bailey in Duluth] By: Angus Y |
| I found it Ironic that RODGER would stand in front of the Zoo to support his belief in what good government stands for. A vote for this chimp is exactly what we don't need. More of the same from the Barnum and Bailey show in government. |
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Tue Jun 24 07:53:35 2008 - [Congressclown not on wikipedia] By: Barb J |
| What's a congressclown? It's not on wikipedia. |
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Tue Jun 24 07:47:46 2008 - [Duluth man arrested ] By: LIB Reader Online |
Looks like the "locals" going wild are taking their show on the road. How sad. This story is made for Jerry Springer.
Just reading the LIB online for free, saving trees, money and energy.
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Duluth man arrested after allegedly walking off with baby in Fargo, N.D.
The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead
Published Monday, June 23, 2008
FARGO – Fargo police here arrested a Duluth man on suspicion of terrorizing after he allegedly tried to walk off with a car seat carrying a baby Sunday night in south Fargo, Sgt. Jeff Skuza said.
The baby was not injured.
The mother had just pulled into her garage when the incident happened shortly before 9 p.m. in the 5200 block of Amber Valley Parkway.
According to Skuza:
The mother took the car seat carrying the 6-week-old child out of its base and set it on the ground so she could attend to another child in the vehicle.
When her back was turned, she noticed a man approach and look at the baby. The man got closer and picked up the carrier and started to walk off with it.
The mother grabbed the carrier and tried to pull it away from the man. The tug-of-war continued until the man’s friend, whom he’d been talking to by another garage before the incident, intervened and convinced him to let go of the ca | |
