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I’m a Gen X doctor in the Rust Belt who cut back on medicine to compose our region’s story—our way.

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After years of listening to the coasts tell us what to think about ourselves, I couldn't take it anymore.

So I took matters into my own hands. This is the real Rust Belt.

Dolly Parton, the legend, was there for everybody. That includes me, the wannabe coastal elite with the superiority complex. It

Sometime around 2012, the hipster thing reared its ugly head. Two years earlier, I had moved with the family to

Yeah, yeah—I know it’s not really a data center ban. It’s a moratorium barring state approvals of hyperscale data centers

Dolly Parton, the legend, was there for everybody. That includes me, the wannabe coastal elite with the superiority complex. It

Sometime around 2012, the hipster thing reared its ugly head. Two years earlier, I had moved with the family to

Yeah, yeah—I know it’s not really a data center ban. It’s a moratorium barring state approvals of hyperscale data centers