Come on Duluth, pull your socks up!
Local View: Downtown, UMD can help end Duluth's era of stagnant growth - Duluth News Tribune | News, weather, and sports from Duluth, Minnesota
From the column: "The populations of Fargo (124,662), Rochester (118,935), and Sioux Falls (183,793) all nearly tripled since 1960. Duluth’s (85,618) shrank by 20%."
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Looking at Duluth in isolation, it has shrunk by 20 percent since 1960. In real terms, Duluth netted a population loss far greater when viewed in a regional context that accounts for the modest growth rates of Fargo, Rochester and Sioux Falls cited in the article. Had Duluth kept pace with those cities since 1960, Duluth would today have a population of 300,000. A nice sized, comfortable metro city.
Why doesn’t Duluth work?