Organizers of Duluth’s Bayfront Blues Festival say they’re choosing a new site to avoid losing thousands of dollars in revenue to the city.<\/p>\n
The festival has been held in Duluth near Lake Superior for the past 18 summers.<\/p>\n
Duluth officials have been asking for a larger cut of ticket sales, control of beer sales, as well as an exhaustive audit of the festival’s accounting.<\/p>\n
Festival attorneys say the city’s demands would cost an additional $48,000 this year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Bergson – who may be Minnesota’s wackiest neosoc mayor – smells untapped small change:<\/p>\n
Duluth Mayor Herb Bergson’s staff estimates that festival President Chris Mackey may owe the city at least $30,000 in back taxes and ticket fees. Bergson has requested all the festival’s accounting records.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
How much real <\/em>revenue – sales taxes, hotel taxes, and other revenue gained from having people actually come to Duluth and spend money<\/em> – is Bergson whizzing away?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bluesfest leaves Duluth. Why?\u00a0 Because Duluth’s crypto-Maoist government wants to squeeze blood from a turnip, natch: Organizers of Duluth’s Bayfront Blues Festival say they’re choosing a new site to avoid losing thousands of dollars in revenue to the city. The festival has been held in Duluth near Lake Superior for the past 18 summers. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}