A July 25 “Local View” column (“ Time to close the book on Northern Lights Express train ”) argued that “Minnesota doesn’t need a high-speed train to nowhere,” without citing adequate verifiable facts to support the view.

First, the writer claimed that our Twin Ports are “nowhere.” Decades ago, my then-young parents, Delores Ann and James Warren Buchanan, after earning their teaching degrees at Bemidji State University, could have chosen any U.S. city in which to live. They chose to relocate to Duluth to build their lives as public-school teachers while raising three children.

Their generation, and many other generations of Duluth citizens, would not have chosen to work and live here if they thought Duluth was a desolate nowhere. Suggesting to Duluth citizens that they chose to live “n

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