Minn.: One Small Prairie Town, Two Warring Visions of America

Tim Sullivan Associated Press January 31, 2022

BENSON, Minn. (AP) — The newspaper hit the front porches of the wind-scarred prairie town on a Thursday afternoon: Coronavirus numbers were spiking in the farming communities of western Minnesota. “Covid-19 cases straining rural clinics, hospitals, staff,” read the front-page headline.