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UMD men open Monday night
The University of Minnesota Duluth men’s basketball team enters the 2025-26 season determined to prove last winter’s struggles were an aberration, not a reset. The Bulldogs return a seasoned team headlined by Caleb Siwek, the NSIC North Division Preseason Player of the Year. A redshirt junior guard from
Howie: Division I rural health teaching
This isn’t science fiction; it’s how rural medicine is already evolving. Duluth could simply be the first to turn it into curriculum — a digital rural residency, training doctors to serve wider geographies with smarter tools.
Howie: The Gift From the North
If the nation is wise enough to listen north, it will find the answers waiting. Because up here, health care isn’t just a profession. It’s a promise. And we keep our promises close to home.
Howie: Policy from the North
If Washington has the humility to learn from Dr. Herman and Essentia's story, it might just rediscover what leadership in health care looks like — steady, patient, and powered by people who measure progress one healed life at a time.