The chief problem with Duluth is that their city council has too many dullards.
It used to be the smartest folks went into the private industry jobs because those jobs paid a lot higher salaries. The not as smartest folks went for the public jobs because while the pay wasn’t as good, their jobs were more secure ie immune from layoffs. Now that the government has gotten so big and unionized, their pay is generally higher than the same private industry jobs and they can get as high as 80% of their salary as retirement pay while non government employees are lucky to get $24k a year.