Indian health center could move to county

The Carlton County board at its meeting Monday heard from Melissa Walls of the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health based in Duluth. Walls told the board the Johns Hopkins Center — aimed at advancing Indian health through programs, research and policy — is growing and positioned to move from Duluth in one to two years, and would like to find 5,000 square feet of office space in Carlton County.

“We’ve got room,” commissioner Gary Peterson said. “I would love to have you guys here.”

The local unit of Johns Hopkins is little-known, Walls said, but she and the staff are working to change tha...