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jschramm@minotdailynews.com Submitted Photo Ivan Guerrero, owner of 123 Clean, an oil-field services company, stands at a work site, holding a book by Coach Dale Brown, formerly of Minot. Ivan Guerrero is grateful for the federal Paycheck Protection Program, which has enabled his company to keep employees on the job during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, with a second PPP loan in hand, he’s anxious. Despite about six months of supplying the Small Business Administration with multiple pieces of paperwork, he still is waiting to hear whether his oilfield spill cleanup company, 123 Clean, wi...

Cartoon by Frank Cotham Clute started to try responding to each point. But ultimately she just said, “Our intent has never been to create fear. Our intent is to provide you the facts.” I wanted to learn about Minot because it was exceptional: it was in the worst-performing county in the worst-performing state in the worst-performing country in the world. But I also wanted to learn about it because it didn’t seem unusual at all: the city was divided over what to do about the pandemic, and even what to think about it. I wanted to understand what made it so difficult for people to come tog...