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Iron Range is booming, but it's hard to find an optimist
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Joe Strlekar is president of the United Steelworkers of America Local 4860 in Eveleth. "If someone had told me a year, year and a half ago, that we would be shipping domestic -- or North American -- iron ore to China, I would have said they were nuts," he says. (MPR Photo/Bob Kelleher)

Joe Strlekar is president of the United Steelworkers of America Local 4860 in Eveleth. "If someone had told me a year, year and a half ago, that we would be shipping domestic -- or North American -- iron ore to China, I would have said they were nuts," he says.

(MPR Photo/Bob Kelleher)
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