Our view: Thanks, Bob

He served only a short time, and courageously during some of Duluth’s darkest days, but there’s no denying the indelible mark left on the city of Duluth by former Mayor Bob Beaudin. The Lincoln Park native and longtime steelworker who earned a political science degree when he saw the demise coming of U.S. Steel in Duluth died over the weekend. He was 72.