The Budgeteer News is celebrating its 75th anniversary with this issue. A special section highlights the history of this paper since its first days in the depths of the Great Depression.
Herb Palmer, and then his son Dick nurtured this newspaper through thick and thin, eventually creating the largest general interest weekly newspaper in Minnesota.
The newspaper has been under a number of corporate owners since then, but the thrust of the paper remains the local Duluth community. We would like to thank our loyal readers and advertisers for their support throughout the years.
In addition to the history of the Budgeteer, we also offer in this special issue our view of the 10 most important stories that have shaped Duluth during these past 75 years.
Anytime one makes a limited list of events, it generates discussion and occasionally controversy. Our idea was to look at 10 events that in some way have put Duluth on the map, started or highlighted a major development or that have been topics for community discussion long after the event occurred. These 10 stories, then, are events that, if they had never occurred, would have left Duluth a remarkably different place than it is today.
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Minnesota Power has provided us with a timeline of its business history, and the remainder of the section is filled with another communitywide timeline that we think both longtime residents and relative newcomers will enjoy. A person could probably put together an entire book of such happenings, but we kept it to just a few pages. It is our gift to you, dear readers, as a way of saying thanks.
We continue to see a bright future for the Budgeteer News as well as for this community.
Throughout the years we have been there reporting the many achievements of Duluthians, offering an alternative voice on the issues of the day, and supporting this community in any way we can.
We continue to believe that this Zenith City on the Unsalted Seas is positioned for enormous progress if the disparate interests within the community can ever come together in agreement.
Like the Budgeteer, all any of us want is good things for Duluth. Again, we thank you for the opportunity to chronicle some of them for you over the past 75 years, and look forward to doing so far into Duluth's future.
