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Editorial, St. Cloud Times
Advice to Dayton: Forget a special session
Minnesota must do better on a pro-growth, pro-jobs strategy that reduces cost burdens.
Mike Milstead
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Minnesota leaders, convene a special session. Pass a tax bill!
Minnesota must do better on a pro-growth, pro-jobs strategy that reduces cost burdens.
Al Lund
Charitable gaming: Accidental tax relief, and a chance to make bigger repairs
Our tax burden is too high, and we're tired of seeing our work benefit the pro sports world rather than local communities.
Megan McArdle, Bloomberg View
Health care premiums are going up again. Now what?
A big part of the problem is simply that the insurers cannot make a profit at current prices.
Chris Sprigman and Mark Lemley
'Notice and takedown': The right copyright law at the right time
Let's save it from changes that could break the internet.
Mohammed A. Malik
The Omar Mateen I knew (and reported to the FBI)
Donald Trump is wrong that we Muslims don't do our part.
Monte Bute
Is MnSCU (as it's been known) 'too big to fail'?
The numbers say it's an ailing behemoth. Its management is engaged in some peculiar responses. (Such as desperate rebranding.)
Editorial
Sensing an election-year evasion on pensions
Treasury's rejection of plan for Central States leaves no alternative.
Stu Bykofsky, Philadelphia Daily News (TNS)
The Senate's failed gun measures, assessed by (your words) a 'gun nut'
Like me, most gun owners favor reasonable controls — but not everything is a good idea.
Narayana Kocherlakota, Bloomberg View
Kocherlakota: The Fed gets real, but not real enough
Even rate-hike advocate James Bullard has dialed it back. But, really, the economy's risks call for rate reduction.
Michael Nesset
The cellist, the street person and me
Privileged or not, all of us are a sum of our experiences — and we're all engaged in the pursuit of putting the pieces together.
Editorial, Duluth News Tribune
After caucus crowding, Legislature sets up improved hybrid system
Minnesotans will be able to vote in presidential primary in 2020.
Sean White
Counterpoint: Guns, civics and suspicion
What really holds back action on big issues like gun control? A lack of trust in government.
Sarah Bridges
Disabilities: How 'Me Before You' gets the message all wrong
I struggled after my son's brain injury, but I grew to realize that his life was not just a skimpy version of mine.
Jared Bernstein
Lies and statistics: Which do you suppose wins without research?
Pernicious attempts to undermine fact-finding are actually more worrisome than prevarication itself.
Suzanne Nossel
Hillary Clinton and the art of losing
Her rebound from her 2008 campaign loss holds lessons for anyone faced with coming back from a harsh setback.
Thomas Johnson
School's out. Now, for a summer before a mind-dimming smartphone.
Kids will spend more time interacting with electronic devices than on any other activity besides sleep, and they'll be the worse for it — and they won't let go unless you make them.
Phyllis Kahn
Counterpoint: Pension returns should be a focus as well
They're two-thirds of the equation, and Minnesota is underperforming.
Eliot Seide
Counterpoint: On public pensions, the sky isn't falling
There's no reason for Minnesota taxpayers to panic or for public workers to be punished.
John Rash
Rash Report: Pressure is needed to keep Kenyan refugee camp open
State's congressional delegation, Somali citizens among many advocating for Dadaab.
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