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  • Setting goals for the region’s economy in 2018

    Duluth News Tribune, Dec. 31, 2017 Fortunes are made and lost trying to predict what will happen in the complex machinery of the economy. Even at a local level, an unseen butterfly effect can alter the course of development and growth for years to come. Enough with predictions, then. What are the plans for the…

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  • U.S. sees foreign reliance for ‘critical’ minerals as security concern

    Reuters, Dec. 19, 2017 The United States needs to encourage domestic production of a handful of minerals critical for the technology and defense industries, and stem reliance on China, U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said on Tuesday. Zinke made the remarks at the Interior Department as he unveiled a report by the U.S. Geological Survey…

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