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August 14, 2015
FILE -- The characters Big Bird, Mr. Snuffleupagus and Baby Snuffleupagus with Annette Calud during the filming of an episode of PBS's "Sesame Street"

Readers Write (Aug. 15): "Sesame Street" on HBO, Minneapolis street markings, Iran nuclear deal and Israel, papal visit, fishing in Minnesota

"Sesame Street on HBO": This is surely a symbol for our times.
Letters
August 14, 2015
BRIAN PETERSON • brianp@startribune.com Brainerd Lakes Area - 7/6/2006 Excessive weed clearing can also be easily spotted from the air, like th

Readers Write (Aug. 16): Minnesota's lakes, Planned Parenthood, payday lending

Preserving lakes: Both public and personal commitments are needed.
Letters
August 13, 2015
Looking out at Chequamegon Bay on Lake Superior near Bayfield, Wisconsin on August 5, 2015. Opponents of a possible large scale livestock facility in

Readers Write (Aug. 14): Lake Superior hog lot, turkey and resort bailouts, Norwood Teague fallout, Iran nuclear deal

There are options for an environmentally conscious hog operation, but they're costly.
Letters
August 12, 2015
FILE - In this Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015 file photo, people kayak in the Animas River near Durango, Colo., in water colored yellow from a mine waste spil

Readers Write (Aug. 13): Colorado wastewater spill, animal welfare, bicycling and motoring, prescription drugs, Sid Hartman

May the Animas River wastewater spill in Colorado be the catalyst for action.
Letters
August 11, 2015
September 17, 1977 Iron range strikers March in 1916. Photo from ' The Survey,' Aug. 26, 1916. It was the biggest walkout in the history of the Mesabi

Readers Write (Aug. 12): 'Under Ground' — fiction vs. reality, Norwood Teague, Iran nuclear deal, building temperatures

With the serialized novel it's publishing, is the Star Tribune respecting the line between fiction and reality?
Letters
August 10, 2015
(left to right) Mark Santelman of Winthrop MN., talked with University of Minnesota Athletic Director Norwood Teague during the University of Minnesot

Readers Write (Aug. 11): Norwood Teague, Donald Trump, the Catholic Church

Who all was facilitating Norwood Teague's behavior?
Letters
August 9, 2015
Boundary Waters Canoe Area. ORG XMIT: MIN2013101509464928

Readers Write (Aug. 10): Baby boomers and RV use, sexual ethics, social work, a 'broken' Army, front-page decisions

Wheels are sometimes what's necessary to appreciate the wilderness.
Letters
August 7, 2015
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Readers Write (Aug. 9): Incarceration policies, trophy hunting, serial novel

We must pay for alternatives to jails and prisons.
Letters
August 7, 2015
Donald Trump, the real estate mogul and television personality, speaks during the first debate of ten leading Republican presidential hopefuls, at the

Readers Write (Aug. 8): Republican presidential debate, Iran nuclear deal, Putin on Syria, church sex abuse, Minneapolis Institute of Artistic Name-Changing

Could a dog win this race?
Letters
August 6, 2015
Photo from the U.S. Army Signal Corps showing the devastation left after the first atomic bomb was droppped on Hiroshima on August 6 1945. This year m

Readers Write (Aug. 7): Hiroshima anniversary, Lake Mille Lacs assistance, UCare, Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood

The dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan was tragic and persuasive.
Letters
August 5, 2015
This combination of photos, from top left, shows Republican presidential candidates Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee and

Readers Write (Aug. 6): Republican candidates' debate, Lake Mille Lacs fishing, Planned Parenthood, making the airport hip

Meet tonight's starting lineup for the Republican presidential debate.
Letters
August 4, 2015
July 13, 1979 You'll be hearing a lot about Margaret Sanger, the "mother of the birth control movement," between now and Sept. 14 -- the 100th anniver

Readers Write (Aug. 5): Planned Parenthood, life in Zimbabwe, Walter Palmer's dentistry, officiating high school sports

The long fight for family planning vs. incontrovertible belief in the sanctity of life.
Letters
August 3, 2015
August 20, 1993 Aerial view - 14,000 islands in Lake of the Woods, 'we' think this is Oak Island, on which a third of the counties resorts are located

Readers Write (Aug. 4): Mille Lacs and walleye, plastic bags, school district buyouts, MPR layoffs

Not the only lake, nor the only fish.
Letters
August 2, 2015
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Readers Write (Aug. 3): Baby boomers and RV sales, land development, plastic bags, fetal research, Webber Park pool

Boomers and RVs — the "me" generation on wheels.
Letters
August 2, 2015
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Readers Write: (Aug. 2): GMOs, trophy hunting, Donald Trump, John Kasich, fishing in Minnesota

Excuse us, Rep. Peterson, but we constituents actually do know our stuff.
Letters
July 31, 2015
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Readers Write (Aug. 1): Officiating high school sports, killing animals like Cecil, airport location, bottled water

Minnesota State High School League policy, not sportsmanship, drives decline in numbers of officials.
Letters
July 30, 2015
Gov Mark Dayton

Readers Write (July 31): Special session for Lake Mille Lacs walleye, killing of Cecil the lion, fetal research, 'Wits' on public radio

All these pressing issues, and fish are what lights the governor's fire?
Letters
July 29, 2015
MUST CREDIT: AFP PHOTO / ZIMBABWE NATIONAL PARKS. This handout picture taken on October 21, 2012 and released on July 28, 2015 by the Zimbabwe Nationa

Readers Write (July 30): Cecil the lion, sugar, 'Wits' on Minnesota Public Radio

Letters
July 28, 2015
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Readers Write (July 29): The killing of Cecil the lion, climate change, fetal research, guns, immigration, the Boy Scouts

Nothing can justify or mitigate the actions of a Bloomington man on a hunt in Zimbabwe.
Letters
July 27, 2015
A man carried plastic bags of groceries out of Kowalski's in Uptown in Minneapolis, Minn., on Thursday, July 23, 2015.

Readers Write (July 28): Plastic bags in Minneapolis, belief systems, the climate 'consensus,' Donald Trump, the difference a tiny little letter makes

A plastic-bag ban in Minneapolis? Try it. You'll like it. (Or not.)
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