Duluth City Council nixes online public comments – Duluth News Tribune | #citycouncil
DULUTH — Janet Kennedy has announced an end to remote public commentary at future City Council meetings, following a stream of antisemitic invective unleashed by speakers using pseudonyms when the body last convened. The council president noted that relatively few public speakers have participated using the council’s online platform to date, and many of those […]
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5th District challenger wants to clean house at Duluth City Hall – Duluth News Tribune | #citycouncil
DULUTH ― Ginka Tarnowski minced few words at a candidate forum Thursday afternoon as she explained her decision to challenge City Council President Janet Kennedy for her seat representing Duluth’s westernmost 5th District. “I am running because Duluth must change how government does business as usual,” she said. Kennedy, who is Duluth’s first black city […]
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Duluth City Council elects first Black president – Duluth News Tribune | #citycouncil
DULUTH — Janet Kennedy recently notched yet another first when fellow city councilors unanimously voted her into their top leadership position by making her council president. In 2020, she became the first Black person to be elected to the Duluth City Council. Kennedy’s parents grew up as the children of Mississippi sharecroppers. Her father joined […]
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Our View/City Council: Transparency takes hit in public-comments decision – Duluth News Tribune | #citycouncil
Duluth City Council President Janet Kennedy was careful, she said, not to consult with too many of her fellow elected officials, to avoid a quorum and to avoid any violation of Minnesota’s open meeting law. As cautious and in step with the letter of the law as Kennedy may have been in deciding last week […]
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