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Duluth Central High School graduates Matt Baumgartner and Marcia Doty on Monday morning attended a grand opening ceremony for the new nostalgic exhibit at the Duluth Depot, filled with memorabilia about Duluth Central.
Duluth Central High School graduates Matt Baumgartner and Marcia Doty on Monday morning attended a grand opening ceremony for the new nostalgic exhibit at the Duluth Depot, filled with memorabilia about Duluth Central.
The truth is, rural health care isn’t dying—it’s evolving into something the rest of us can barely afford to witness. The doctors are trying, the nurses are saints, but the paperwork alone could clog an artery. Somewhere along the line, healing became a subscription service.
They say Herb Brooks was a visionary. Fine. But every visionary needs a translator, and that was John. Herb trusted him enough to actually talk — which, if you knew Herb, tells you everything.
You can’t police despair. You can shuffle people from doorway to doorway, but that’s optics, not safety. The folks drifting between shelters and liquor stores aren’t statistics.
It’s civic theater, and everyone knows their lines. The officials announce. The media nod. The television anchors beam. The advertisers clap. And the citizens — the actual audience — sit at home wondering if they’ve accidentally tuned into satire.