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Editorial, ROCHESTER POST-BULLETIN
August 16, 2017

Mayo studies its own opioid habits

With admirable transparency, the clinic considers new guidelines.
Editorial
August 15, 2017

Trump administration fails transparency test on advisory groups

The public deserves more information on possible conflicts of interest.
Chris Johnson
August 15, 2017
FILE -- Far right demonstrators during the "Unite the Right" event in Charlottesville, Va., Aug. 12, 2017. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Mond

Southern culture is spring from which racism erupts

More dark days are ahead unless our leadership embraces true inclusiveness.
Gary Abernathy
August 15, 2017

Is an honest talk about race even possible these days?

The attacks on Trump for his remarks have reached new heights of frenzy.
Brett Webb
August 15, 2017

Editorial counterpoint: Minnesota's biodiesel mandate goes too far

The fuel is very capable, but it has limitations due to temperature, infrastructure and price concerns. Further reforms are needed.
Neeraj Mehta
August 14, 2017
Star Tribune illustration; original photo by Carlos Gonzalez ï Star Tribune

One person's 'mainstream' is another's oppressive status quo

Minneapolis' problem isn't a small group of leftists with outsized influence; it's a stratified social order that leads to injustice.
Dahleen Glanton, Chicago Tribune (TNS)
August 14, 2017
Days after the violence in Charlottesville, Va., President Donald Trump on Monday personally condemned white supremacists who incited the bloody demon

An angry white leader of angry white men

Americans who thought bigotry would die out with the aging population must be sorely disappointed.
Glen Taylor, Owner of the Star Tribune
August 12, 2017

Glen Taylor: Win-win approach to politics worked in my time in office, and still would

I learned that for me to win, others did not need to lose.
Michael Nesset
August 11, 2017

The good old days … really were, in ways

What do I miss? The things that sometimes brought people together.
John Rash
August 11, 2017
Rash Report: Steve Sack on his 'little piece of real estate in the paper'

Rash Report: Steve Sack on his 'little piece of real estate in the paper'

A book and a "Talk of the Stacks" event reflect remarkable career of the Star Tribune cartoonist.
John Phelan
August 11, 2017
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) discusses the Raise Act, immigration legislation he and Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.), right, are sponsoring, with President Dona

Editorial counterpoint: More workers will help us prosper, if they're the right kind of workers

Amid worries about Minnesota's labor shortage, entrepreneurship may be what matters.
Kris Potter
August 11, 2017
A man watches a television screen showing President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a news program at the Seoul Train Station

A dreaded flashback to 'duck and cover' in the '60s

This week's frightening war of words recalled memories of the fears that lay just below the surface of my sunny, California childhood.
John Harrigan
August 11, 2017
President John F. Kennedy opens at a Washington news conference on Sept. 13, 1962, with a lengthy statement on the Cuban situation. The president decl

Six lessons in leadership from '62 Cuba crisis

We can compare and contrast John Kennedy's response to the Soviet threat with Donald Trump's reaction to North Korean aggression.
Editorial, Dallas Morning News
August 11, 2017

Microsoft researcher regrets security advice that drives many of us nuts

Bill Burr now says simple language, not odd combinations, are safer.
Lori Sturdevant
August 11, 2017

There's no transit plan so needed, so far off that it can't find its foes

But needs are changing, and neighborhoods will, too.
Editorial
August 11, 2017

Journalist Austin Tice went to Syria to report, not to fight

His ambitions were noble, and his kidnappers should set him free.
Editorial, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
August 11, 2017
FILE — Glen Campbell performs during “The Goodbye Tour,” less than a year after he disclosed his diagnosis of Alzheimer’s

Glen Campbell sang the songs of a difficult life

He'll forever be part of America's soundtrack.
Editorial Board
August 11, 2017
North Korea has succeeded in miniaturizing a nuclear weapon and its nuclear arsenal is bigger than previously thought, U.S. analysts say.

A plea from Japan: Please stay calm

North Korea is at fault, but U.S. must show restraint as well as strength.
Editorial, Bloomberg View
August 10, 2017
FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2016 file photo, a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent passes along a section of border wall in Hidalgo, Texas. The GOP-contr

Trump admits border wall is about politics

At $1.6 billion, it's an expensive example of a "least important thing."
Megan McArdle, Bloomberg View
August 10, 2017
FILE - This Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, file photo shows Google's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Googleís new head of diversity has rejected a

That guy at Google was right about women in tech

As a woman who worked in the male-centric IT field, I learned these bros were not my people.
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