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A Certain Personality Trait

By John Ramos
“Now that this resolution has passed,” Cindy Hayden informed the board of the Great Lakes Aquarium on December 8, 2008, “that signals the end of my twenty-year career on the board. This’ll be my last meeting.”
“Twenty years already?” said City Councilor Greg Gilbert. “That’s very impressive, Cindy.”
“It’s terrifying, Greg,” replied Hayden. “You think [...]

The Pillars of Duluth

By John Ramos
The idea of a Duluth aquarium first surfaced in 1982. Since then, the aquarium has come to the city for dozens of favors, many fiscal in nature, some quite enormous. Not one request has ever been turned down. For twenty-five years, the city council and administration—be it Fedo, Doty or Bergson—have, with perfect [...]