DULUTH NEWS TRIBUNE: IN RESPONSE: MINING FOREVER THE HEART, SOUL OF NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA

Tuesday March 29, 2022

Duluth News Tribune
Gerald M. Tyler, David Johnson
March 29, 2022
https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/opinion/columns/in-response-mining-forever-the-heart-soul-of-northeastern-minnesota

We write in response to the March 17 “Local View” column in the News Tribune, “Support for mine betrays heart, soul of Northeastern Minnesota,” which was written by Becky Rom of Ely, the national chair of the nonprofit Campaign to Save the Boundary Waters.

Rom attacked 8th Congressional District Congressman Pete Stauber, writing, “Stauber wrongly claimed the (Biden) administration’s policies ‘have been very harsh on the middle class and the blue-collar worker in Minnesota’s Eighth Congressional District.’ … (This) demonstrated that Stauber is out of touch with the needs of his district. … It is Stauber who has failed the middle-class families he claims to care about.”

Is it Congressman Stauber or the Biden administration who is out of touch with the needs of the 8th Congressional District?

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