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March 2, 2017
Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Thursday, March 2, 2017. Sessions said he will

Readers Write (March 3): Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Trump's address to Congress and Democratic response, Lake Calhoun, J.C. Penney

It's not enough for Sessions to recuse himself.
Letters
March 1, 2017
U.S. President Donald J. Trump delivers his first address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017 at the Capitol in Washington, D.C.

Readers Write (March 2): Trump's address to Congress, Target's difficulties, state Rep. Ilhan Omar, Orchestra Hall and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski

This was a show of strategy, not principle.
Letters
February 28, 2017
Sunday Liquor bill passes the Senate 38-28. ] GLEN STUBBE ï glen.stubbe@startribune.com Monday February 27, 2017 Bill to repeal the ban on Sunday

Readers Write (March 1): Sunday liquor sales, defense spending, crime reporting, headline writing, protests, the Oscars and Mahershala Ali

Someone's interests are served. Whose? That's up for debate.
Letters
February 27, 2017
Thomas Perez, the former labor secretary, hugs Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota at the Democratic National CommitteeÕs winter meeting in Atlanta,

Readers Write (Feb. 28): DNC leadership, the Jewish and Muslim communities, wages, girls' basketball, cellphone distraction

In Ellison loss, a lesson unlearned.
Letters
February 26, 2017
The Macy's store in downtown Minneapolis.

Readers Write (Feb. 27): Downtown Minneapolis, wages, tax rates, school discipline, 'inclusiveness'

City residents need to be heard.
Letters
February 24, 2017
Rep. Ilhan Omar hosted a forum at Mixed Blood Theatre aimed at providing residents of her House district "the necessary tools to protect and organize

Readers Write (Feb. 26): State Rep. Ilhan Omar, freedom of the press, health insurance and MinnesotaCare

Getting no grief on marriage status because of her religion?
Letters
February 24, 2017
Conductor laureate Stanislaw Skrowaczewski on Friday led the first Minnesota Orchestra concert at Orchestra Hall in 20 months. ORG XMIT: MIN1402080007

Readers Write (Feb. 25): Orchestra Hall and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski; government spending and light rail, plus David Osmek; transgender policy; the Trump administration, private prisons and marijuana, and Sunday liquor sales

Rename Orchestra Hall after the maestro.
Letters
February 23, 2017
By 5:00 p.m. over one hundred people were in line at Sartell City Hall hoping to attend Tom Emmer's 7:00 p.m. town hall meeting in the City Council ro

Readers Write (Feb. 24): Congressional town halls, immigration policy, transgender policy, University of Minnesota Board of Regents

Well, Emmer's town hall in Sartell was a start.
Letters
February 22, 2017
This Monday, Feb. 20, 2017 photo provided by The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), shows bodies of people that

Readers Write (Feb. 23): Immigration enforcement, Trump and the media, Southwest light rail and the Legislature

Without compassion, we lose.
Letters
February 21, 2017
Members of the Peterson family, who operate Far-Gaze Farms, worked harvesting corn on one of their fields, this one 142 acres, Friday, Oct. 9, 2015,ne

Readers Write (Feb. 22): U.S.-Mexico relations and Minnesota's farm economy, Southwest light rail, U.S. Rep. Jason Lewis, ideology and middle ground

Minnesota's farm economy stands in the balance
Letters
February 20, 2017
Saying "I don't have a racist bone in my body," Rep. Pat Garofalo, R-Farmington, apologized for a tweet sent out Sunday evening about the National Bas

Readers Write (Feb. 21): Workplace standards, a response from U.S. Rep. Jason Lewis on availability, President Trump's travel expenses and more, bike safety

Republicans want it both ways.
Letters
February 17, 2017
iStockphoto.com Copenhagen, Denmark - April 15th, 2011: Senior couple strolling through the pedestrianised Stroget shopping district past locals relax

Readers Write (Feb. 19): Nicollet Mall, Planned Parenthood rally, U.S. Bank stadium, University of Minnesota regents and gender

Trouble in a pedestrian paradise.
Letters
February 17, 2017
Hector Casanova/ Kansas City Star/TNS ORG XMIT: 1102920

Readers Write (Feb. 20): Politicians, citizens and partisanship, telephone town halls, 'Day Without Immigrants,' inclusiveness and sensitivity

We have to make them find the middle.
Letters
February 17, 2017
Reporters raise their hands as President Donald Trump fields questions during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thu

Readers Write (Feb. 18): The president's news conference, stadium suite fallout, school discipline legislation, health insurance, legislators' behavior

It's a mess, all right.
Letters
February 16, 2017
iStockphoto.com

Readers Write (Feb. 17): Countering violent extremism; Trump's team, Russia, and Democratic comparisons; partisanship on the environment; U.S. Rep. Jason Lewis' availability

Letters
February 16, 2017
FILE -In this March 26, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Seoul, South Korea. President Barack O

Readers Write (Feb. 16): The Trump administration and Russia; Congress and Trump; Rep. Erik Paulsen and U.S. Sen. Al Franken, continued; editorial cartoons

Obama blundered on this front. Trump's team is strong; have faith.
Letters
February 14, 2017
President Donald Trump passes National Security Adviser Michael Flynn as he arrives via Air Force One at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., Monday

Readers Write (Feb. 15): Michael Flynn, ICE raids, immigration and rural Minnesota, refugees and climate change, Minneapolis mayor's race, MinnesotaCare provider tax, slices of life

Flynn's resignation is damage control. Detailed investigation is needed.
Letters
February 13, 2017
Canadian Pacific has seen a dramatic increase in crude oil shipments in tank cars. This crude-only “unit train” passed through St. Paul

Readers Write (Feb. 14): Oil transport, U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen's independence, U.S. Sen. Al Franken's snide remarks, President Trump's qualities, Sunday liquor sales and outstate Minnesota, racism

The other half of the analogy.
Letters
February 10, 2017
A scene at Isle Royale National Park in Michigan. Moose are thriving there but dwindling in Minnesota.

Readers Write (Feb. 12): The moose population; jobs, start-ups and automation; diversity in the funny pages

Let nature do its job.
Letters
February 10, 2017
The urban canopy at Lake Harriet, enhanced by an overnight snow in this photo from January.

Readers Write (Feb. 13): Urban trees, remember Ray Christensen, the Minneapolis Super Bowl, the Sherco power plant, Canada's travel restrictions and DUIs

Plant more? Great! Also, preserve.
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