Average income in Eveleth is 33k. Homes have 150k median price sold. Their property values are about 1/3 of the people living in the cities and their effective property tax rate is just 1.15%, compared to 1.30% for hennepin. I'm sure everyone who lives in a rotting 1 story shack with fuel oil for heat is doing so because they're so damn rich and refuse to downsize to living in an outdoor dog kennel
We've chatted before about local programs going underfunded based on local choice in the tax matrix. But the funnel of wealth from country to city is unreal, a bit invisible. Where are all the Walz Environmental Warriors when shit like this is happening? Rather than fund the schools through some state mechanism, state funds fraud programs feed ghosts while losing control and risking the most precious land. The place where we live in our rotting shacks.
"Minnesota is selling some state land to fund public schools, with a major proposed sale involving approximately 80,000 acres of school trust land within the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) "
This post was edited by RedFromWinter on Oct 28 2025 09:06am