Connecting Native youth to their culture thought to help reduce juvenile delinquency
The sweat lodge is a part of the Arrowhead Juvenile Center's Juvenile Detention Alternative Initiative program, which seeks to connect American Indian youth offenders to their culture as one way to reduce incarceration.Duluth Budgeteer News, 02/02/2013
Ice globes on display at Whole Foods Coop
Whole Foods Co-op member Walter Sipila said he wanted to share how beautiful water can be when it freezes into a sphere. So he created colorful ice globes and placed them in the flower box in front of Whole Foods Co-op, 601 E. Fourth St.Duluth Budgeteer News, 01/18/2013
Community focuses on helping Duluth sex trafficking victims
“Sex trafficking doesn’t just happen in big cities,” Taryn Mastrean of Shared Hope International, an international organization that advocates against sex trafficking, told the Budgeteer. “It is average men buying average American girls.”Duluth Budgeteer News, 01/18/2013
'Confluence/Confluencia' opens Jan. 17 at Duluth Art Institute
Former Duluthian Carla Stetson, best known for her Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial sculpture, and Cecilia Ramon are pairing up for a full-scale installation piece, “Confluence/Confluencia,” for the Duluth Art Institute’s Morrison Gallery at the Depot. The exhibit opens Jan. 17.Duluth Budgeteer News, 01/13/2013
Ben Small: Inspired by previous generations to work for social justice
When Ben Small was a young boy, his father took the family on a trip to Washington, D.C. to lobby Congress. Small says that trip set the stage for his later life.Duluth Budgeteer News, 01/05/2013
Idle No More gains momentum in Duluth
A Native round dance in support of Idle No More and Chief Teresa Spence took place at Miller Hill Mall on Saturday, Dec. 22.Duluth Budgeteer News, 12/30/2012
New eagle staff dedicated at Duluth Civic Center
An eagle staff replacing one that was desecrated was dedicated last week during a ceremony at the Duluth Civic Center.Budgeteer News Editor, 10/20/2012
Pipe holds 160 years of history
St. Paul attorney Henry Buffalo traveled the well-trod 140 miles of Interstate 35 to attend the ceremony at the Duluth Civic Center last month. The pipe he brought with him traveled 162 years.Duluth Budgeteer News, 10/07/2012
Editor's column: Thoughts on miles and years gone by
Recently my mother and I went on a road trip, visiting her cousins in South Dakota. If you know me, you know I always have a camera.Duluth Budgeteer News, 09/23/2012
Craig Pagel
Duluth Budgeteer News, 06/30/2012
