The region's business voice is between leaders right now.

The Duluth Area Chamber of Commerce is running a nationwide search for a new President and CEO. Jim Roche is interim President after Matt Baumgartner's summer departure.

The Chamber speaks for Northland business in rooms you and I never enter. It endorsed the $12M school levy and backed the Hermantown data center. Those positions shape your taxes, your energy costs, your hiring pool. A new CEO inherits them and sets the next ones.

The Chamber says the search will seek stakeholder engagement. Transitions are when an organization is most shapeable. If the Chamber speaks for businesses like yours, the search is when your voice counts, not after the hire. Show up now.