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K.B. Brown, Lynn Hoffman and Nyijaah Williams
May 19, 2016

Editorial counterpoint: Paid sick time will serve Minneapolis workers — and businesses

Rehashed downtown talking points ignore the comprehensive process for the ordinance.
Bob Kroll
May 19, 2016

Editorial counterpoint: Really, a 'slowdown'? The facts about cops

City leaders are the ones making it difficult for Minneapolis police.
NORMAN SHERMAN
May 19, 2016
August 28, 1968 SEN. McCARTHY, VICE-PRESIDENT HUMPHREY AND SEN. McGOVERN Together for the first time in months, the three candidates shook hands and s

Lessons from 1968: Bernie Sanders needs to put snide aside

The Democratic challenger's criticisms of Clinton could come back to haunt; they'd be bludgeons out of the mouth of Donald Trump.
Jared Bernstein
May 19, 2016
A worker welds the frame for the 2016 Wildcat X side-by-side vehicle at the Arctic Cat factory in Thief River Falls, Minn., on Sept. 30, 2015. (Leila

Obama's executive actions will work 'overtime' to help the working class

New overtime rule is one of Obama's most progressive and sensible policies -- and Congress never would have done it.
MIKE HICKEY, STEVE BECHER and JIM ARNESON
May 18, 2016
A rendering of the Southwest Light Rail train passing through the Kenilworth Lagoon ORG XMIT: MIN1605131425430376

Counterpoint: Small businesses, in fact, are not on board with Southwest light rail

Unlike bigger businesses, we are more sensitive to sales-tax hikes and prefer cost-effective transit.
Eric W. Kaler
May 18, 2016
The Capitol is still officially closed to the public. ] GLEN STUBBE * gstubbe@startribune.com Thursday, March 3, 2016 With less than a week left befor

Please, legislators, invest in state's infrastructure before it's too late

The University of Minnesota and communities across the state have an urgent need for a bonding bill to be passed in the next few days.
Yvonne Prettner Solon
May 17, 2016
A tour boat on Lake Michigan near downtown Milwaukee, Wis., July 16, 2015. A plan to pump water from nearby Lake Michigan to fix a growing contaminati

Waukesha water diversion: Take all the time needed to weigh revised plan

A revised proposal now under consideration to pump water from Lake Michigan hasn't received the scrutiny it deserves.
Editorial
May 17, 2016

GOP won't stop attacking the Affordable Care Act

And now a federal judge has injected the courts into the fight.
John Freivalds
May 17, 2016
Passengers wait in line to go through the new north security checkpoint at Terminal 1 of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. ] (Leila Navidi/S

My petition for a shorter airport security line

I have gone through airport security in more than 60 countries, and can say that the TSA uses the least amount of common sense. Here are some ways to fix it.
Dennis Smith
May 17, 2016
Minnesota sample identification card and drivers license. This is a sample provided by the Minnesota department of Public Safety ORG XMIT: MIN15092616

The key thing is to get Real ID done in Minnesota

Although I believe a one-tier driver's license system would be easiest for Minnesotans, I'm willing to accept a two-tiered system in order to make our state compliant.
Jason Dempsey
May 17, 2016
This undated image taken from Twitter shows 16 black, female cadets in uniform with their fists raised while posing for a photograph at the United Sta

West Point cadet photo controversy: It's funny what draws attention

There's a double standard when it comes to what symbols the Army calls offensive.
Rhonda Garelick
May 17, 2016
FILE - In this Nov. 3, 2015, file photo, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg speaks during a forum in San Francisco. Sandberg encouraged

Don't fall for a can-do fantasy

It's a false narrative whose sources range from Sheryl Sandberg's "Lean In" to Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again."
Judith K. Healey
May 16, 2016

What the University of Minnesota can do about Donald Trump

All that news about the school lately helps point the direction.
Marshall H. Tanick
May 16, 2016

Independent for president? In Minnesota, your brief window is open

But it's already getting late in the game, nationally, and your odds are long …
John P. James
May 16, 2016
The Capitol is still officially closed to the public. ] GLEN STUBBE * gstubbe@startribune.com Thursday, March 3, 2016 With less than a week left befor

The 2016 Legislature: A proposal to end the gridlock

This six-step plan would redesign Minnesota's finances.
Richard C. Longworth
May 16, 2016

Reminders of what skilled demagogues can accomplish

(Just in case you think it can't happen here.)
D.J. Tice
May 15, 2016

A deep dive into data on work, family, race in Minnesota

A Minnesota demography report has helpful detail.
Mike Hashimoto, Dallas Morning News (TNS)
May 13, 2016

How it felt growing up as a Japanese-American

For me, the devastation in Japan was just the end of the war. I cared more about U.S. citizens interned simply because of their ancestry.
Kaimay Yuen Terry
May 13, 2016
FILE - The mushroom cloud rises from Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945, after the first atomic bomb was dropped by a B-29 bomber, as seen in this phot

Japan still must confront its claim of victimhood

With his visit to Hiroshima, President Obama can urge Japanese leaders to confront their nation's dark past with truth and courage.
John Rash
May 13, 2016
A bird eye view shows the upper portion of Atomic Dome, former Hiroshima Commerce Exhibition Hall, Tuesday, July 26, 2005. Hiroshima will mark the 60t

Rash Report: Obama's Hiroshima visit is about the future, not apology

The president has made progress, but proliferation, terrorism and arsenals will test his successor.
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