Here's another great idea of mine which will never come to fruition.

Every day I read the Duluth News Tribune's online version of the local newspaper. I also enjoy the blog News Tribune Attic, which features DNT photos and stories from years past.

My idea for a new DNT blog would be called "News Tribune Lineup." Each post would feature a crime story from a different month and year (e.g. July, 2004; February, 1988) along with five or six mug shots from that time. After reading the story, the reader would get to "Pick the Perp" and choose which mug shot belongs to the story.

See? It's fun, it's interactive, and it gets people interested in their community's history. I don't see why it wouldn't fly.

The best part would be the mug shots of civic leaders, local heroes, and DNT staff mixed in with the photos of criminals. Sorry, that isn't a photo of an arsonist from Two Harbors...that's former Duluth mayor Ben Boo. That isn't the Superior, WIs. man who put his mother down the garbage disposal...that's cub reporter Will Ashenmacher.