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Howie: Downtown Duluth won’t revive until it faces its hardest truth

Downtown won’t be saved by consultants, binders or cheerleaders. It will be saved when Duluth faces its most challenging problem — the needles, the psychotic breaks, the encampments in doorways — and chooses to act rather than avert its eyes.

First Street in Downtown Duluth. Howie / HowieHanson.com

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