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Barrett Chase

@barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com
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Digital editor at Duluth News Tribune. (That's in Minnesota, not Georgia.) Frequenter of the public library's local history center. Lover of data. Anti-dis/misinformation.

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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 7h
We’re very happy with this new hire!
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 22/09/2026
It's that time of year when we start hearing one of my most-hated phrases: "leaf peeping." Shudder, gag.
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 21/09/2026
You own a grocery store and 95% of your traffic fills up on free samples and proudly announces that they will never buy anything. You can’t afford to give away food, so you stop. People complain, claiming food is essential and your greed starves people. This post is about online journalism.
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 16/09/2026
Listen if you’re running for local office and want people to take you seriously, you need a decent photo of yourself. If you can’t arrange that simple task, you can’t expect voters to believe you can manage the position.
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 15/09/2026
A few things that didn't make it into my short blurb: 1) Deputies said the first words the boys said when they came out were, "We don't like cops." 2) The mom who attacked photographer Karl Jaros had to be restrained.
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 13/09/2026
This is the kind of hard-hitting journalism you find in 1950s newspapers.
A newspaper clipping headlined "Socks lighter, livelier in color."
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Laurie Hertzel @lhertzel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I see people griping here all the time, asking WHERE ARE THE REPORTERS? Why aren't they covering Mitch McConnell, Epstein probe, etc. etc. They are being laid off, that's where they are. If you don't subscribe to at least 2 papers you have no right to ask that question. The Miami Herald just 1/2
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 09/09/2026
I hate the word “snagged.”
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 08/09/2026
The front page of the Sept. 14, 1976, News-Tribune has a funny story about someone calling 911 to report a bear, and a police inspector saying that's fine because "This isn't New York City." Then, on page 2: two murders, one grand larceny and five people dead in area car crashes.
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 26/08/2026
I'm always amazed by how the words "rock concert" struck fear into people's hearts in the 70s. But then I see repeated stories about the aftermath of local concerts, and I realize young people at that time (*cough, boomers*) were often chaotic, violent and destructive.
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 19/08/2026
Imagine being 12 and crying in the dugout, and then a photographer snaps a pic of you, and it goes out on the AP wire.
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 18/08/2026
So far, close to half the readers who responded to our poll said they prefer to “just watch whatever is on” TV rather than actively choose something from a streaming service. I’m not surprised, but …
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 16/08/2026
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 15/08/2026
It’s really hard to find a married woman’s actual first name in old newspapers. Even the birth listings would show just the father’s name.
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 12/08/2026
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 10/08/2026
THREAD: I was curious whether lake freighters still go under the Bong Bridge, so I took to Google. The Gemini AI gave a vague answer and for some reason I decided to engage. The result was even worse than I expected. 1/9
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 09/08/2026
What should we call this person? A hog farmer? A pork producer? Wait! I've got it!
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 07/08/2026
Journalists should welcome good-faith criticism. Whether the critics are ultimately right or wrong, they care about the reporting and the subject, and that’s something we should value. When people stop caring, we have a problem.
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Duluth News Tribune @duluthnews.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The northern half of the state is the only region in the country that has an elevated potential of significant wildfires into November.
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Nearly all of Northeastern Minnesota in severe drought
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 06/08/2026
I am deeply sad because I’ll never live in the house full of secret rooms I dreamed about during my nap.
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 05/08/2026
Reading old newspapers, I get the sense that in the 50s kindergarteners routinely said, "See ya, Mom. I'm going to play in a pile of industrial rubbish three miles from home." And Mom would be like, "Take your 3-year-old brother along." The result, predictably, was news. Sad news.
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 04/08/2026
This was crazy. The match didn't happen because the attorney showed up late, claiming he didn't even know about the match. The pastor said, "I scared him out — that's all there is to it." #duluth #duluthmn #history #boxing
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 02/08/2026
I get frustrated when people claim that crime now is so much worse than in the past. This little story ran on page 9B — the comics page — in 1976. #duluth #duluthmn #crime #minnesota
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Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"I'm never going to pay for the service you provide, but nevertheless you should provide me with endless free stuff and make future business decisions with me in mind" is not the winning argument some folks seem to think it is
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 30/07/2026
A lot of journalists were sad to move out of this building. I was not one of them.
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 28/07/2026
This 1953 column was progressive enough to admit it was wrong to "torture" left-handed children into becoming right-handed, and instead encouraged parents to simply persuade the children to change on their own by explaining that the world isn't made for lefties.
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 26/07/2026
The obvious choice for fried chicken. #dultuh #duluthmn #jcpenney #millerhillmall #history #seventies
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 25/07/2026
This person is using a bad faith argument, but I still want to address it. “Whiteface” is not a slur in this context. The Whiteface River and its tributaries are so named because of the white clay found on its banks.
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Reader's View: Perhaps White Face Creek should be renamed, too
For example, Lake Calhoun’s name was changed to Bde Maka Ska because John Calhoun (vice president to two different presidents) was a staunch defender of slavery.
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 18/07/2026
Even the street needs an editor.
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 15/07/2026
This is truly horrid.
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 14/07/2026
When I was a kid, I thought curfews only happened in movies. #duluth #duluthmn #OTD #onthisday #history
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Bygones: Duluth considered lifting curfew in 1976
The ordinance requiring minors under 16 to return home by 11 p.m. was considered impossible to enforce.
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Duluth News Tribune @duluthnews.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Follow along as we bring you the latest news on the wildfires.
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LIVE UPDATES: Northern Minnesota wildfires
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 13/07/2026
Crime is skyrocketing. #scanner
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 13/07/2026
We are still accepting resumes for a features reporter position in our newsroom. This is a union job that allows you to work from home, with just a few in-office meetings per week. #duluth #duluthmn #journalism #jobs
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Forum Communications Company - Features Reporter
The Duluth News Tribune has been serving Duluth and northeastern Minnesota since 1869, delivering impactful and award-winning local journalism in one of the most distinctive regions in the upper Midwe...
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 13/07/2026
Fun fact: After this, the city had to crack down on people trying it themselves. #duluth #duluthmn #OTD #onthisday #history #lakesuperior
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Bygones: Stuntman jumped from Aerial Bridge in 1926
Later that week, J.C. Craig planned to drive from Duluth to Barnum blindfolded.
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 13/07/2026
Yes, it's hot. But 90 years ago #onthisday Duluth saw its hottest day ever: 106.2 degrees. This was the third time the all-time record was broken within one week. #OTD #duluth #duluthmn #weather #heatwave #heat #history
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 12/07/2026
When you get an inflammatory email from a guy claiming his inflammatory comment should not have been moderated for being inflammatory
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 12/07/2026
ICYMI: Here's my take on "Confession Killer" Henry Lee Lucas' brief brush with Duluth.
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Prolific serial killer confessed to Duluth slaying
Henry Lee Lucas said he committed 600 murders, but nearly all his claims were unfounded.
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 12/07/2026
A former colleague of mine once said that an e-edition (PDF facsimile of a print newspaper) is basically this.
A drawing of an 1800s “horseless carriage” automobile featuring the wooden head of a horse on the front.
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 11/07/2026
True story: A local kid and a tourist get into a fight. The kid allegedly pulls a knife and cuts the tourist’s ear. Social media users: Blame the homeless!
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 11/07/2026
Dry nights kind of took the city by surprise. At that time it was illegal for unaccompanied minors to enter a bar, even if alcohol was not for sale that night.
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Bygones: Duluth 'dry nights' came under fire in 1976
Fifty years ago, the Sound Museum on Lake Avenue and Michigan Street allowed teens to party on Mondays.
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 10/07/2026
Your annual reminder that this spray is not a pesticide. It is food-grade, nontoxic and does not affect anything but these moths. And it doesn’t even kill the moths.
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 10/07/2026
I think about this at least once a week. effectiviology.com/rhyme-as-rea...
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The Rhyme-as-Reason Effect: Why Rhyming Makes Messages More Persuasive – Effectiviology
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 10/07/2026
Stop saying “this last week.” It’s either this week or last week. Pick one.
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 09/07/2026
The fact that this tutorial needs to exist …
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 09/07/2026
Last year as I was seeking shade while waiting for my companion to pick up a **new State Fair food** I was excited for, I saw workers bringing in cases of the item — and learned it was a packaged, frozen, grocery-store product slightly renamed for the fair.
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 08/07/2026
That scene in season one of Breaking Bad when Walt goes to buy a water heater and spontaneously decides to upgrade to a tankless model? That’s the kind of wealth I aspire to.
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 07/07/2026
I’ve quit a few vices in my time, but the latest, algorithmic feeds, feels like the most difficult.
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 05/07/2026
What I don’t understand about Jaws is why thousands of people wanted to go to Amity Island in the first place. Just to crowd cheek by jowl onto a tiny beach?
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Barrett Chase @barrettchase.duluthnewstribune.com · 02/07/2026
I miss this day.
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