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Richard Greelis
Brooklyn Park police video: Shift from civility to survival mode can be needed in an instant
If police officers have learned anything, it's that they can never count on their adversaries to act logically.
Charlie Auspos
Wheelock Whitney had influence, all right – the best kind
Businessman cared most about people, and that was what I learned as a young recruit.
Editorial
Getting more travelers into PreCheck program
That's one way to address growing airport security system overload.
Don Wright
Treatment costs: Don't jeopardize my health to fix health care
Because life, even with a serious illness like multiple myeloma, is a marathon worth running.
Lawrence R. Jacobs
Wake up and see the Trump card: He can win
The chattering classes have been predicting the candidate's demise for months. Here are 5 reasons why these pundits are still wrong.
Mark Ostrem
There's still time for Legislature to fix sentencing reform
We need to get it right: more help for low-level drug offenders and tougher penalties for big dealers.
John Rash
Rash Report: How propaganda propped up China's Cultural Revolution
Posters from a chaotic era depict China's descent into political, cultural calamity.
Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact.com
PolitiFact: Facts few, worries plentiful on $15 minimum wage
It's uncharted, even in terms of estimates about job losses vs. livability gains.
D.J. Tice
A political party crack-up? Change is a constant in politics, too
The rugs on which political parties stand have been pulled repeatedly throughout American history.
Lori Sturdevant
Watch that turnover in the Minnesota Legislature
Experience matters, and thus, so does legislator pay.
Ron Way
What's the matter with golf today?
The game's governing body and traditionalists have stuck with rules and procedures that make it difficult, expensive, time-consuming — unapproachable. There are ways to change that.
Editorial
Satellites could aid efforts to address global warming
Space agencies could monitor if countries are honoring Paris accord.
Anne Applebaum, The Washington Post
A world without facts
The boom in fact-checking is more a symptom than a cure for an era that doesn't believe in truth, or care about it.
K.B. Brown, Lynn Hoffman and Nyijaah Williams
Editorial counterpoint: Paid sick time will serve Minneapolis workers — and businesses
Rehashed downtown talking points ignore the comprehensive process for the ordinance.
Bob Kroll
Editorial counterpoint: Really, a 'slowdown'? The facts about cops
City leaders are the ones making it difficult for Minneapolis police.
NORMAN SHERMAN
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
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
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
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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
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.
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