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March 1, 2018
U.S. Congressman Tim Walz (DFL) ] GLEN STUBBE ï glen.stubbe@startribune.com Friday, January 26, 2018 Minnesota candidates for governor gathered f

Readers Write: Gubernatorial candidate Tim Walz and guns, business decisions regarding guns, Minnesota State chancellor search

Keep your eye on the big picture.
Letters
February 27, 2018
Ron Moore, current owner of Shadow Creek Stables in Forest Lake, spoke strongly in support of the zoning text change that would allow the treatment ce

Readers Write: Mental health facilities, school shootings, Tim Pawlenty, 3M settlement, Ben Shapiro's speech, writing and editing, Olympics coverage

Issues: Not just placement, but cost.
Letters
February 26, 2018
In this Friday, Feb. 23, 2018 photo, Garrison Keillor poses for a photo in Minneapolis. Keillor discusses allegations of sexual harassment in his firs

Readers Write: Garrison Keillor, guns and public safety

"Disgraced," "scandal" are words not to be used lightly.
Letters
February 23, 2018
Orono High School students arrive for the day Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018, a day after a threat was posted, causing the school to go on lockdown. A studen

Readers Write: Guns and public safety, Minnesota tax policy, the prospective return of Tim Pawlenty, books in the curriculum, history and storytelling

Be there for young people.
Letters
February 23, 2018
The Minneapolis City skyline including City Hall seen from the back of the U.S. District Court. ] GLEN STUBBE ï glen.stubbe@startribune.com Monda

Readers Write: Minneapolis 'resilience,' the potential return of Tim Pawlenty, Minnesota tax policy, the women's movement

Where's the significance?
Letters
February 23, 2018
USA player Gigi Marvin celebrates after defeating Canada in the gold-medal game at Gangneung Hockey Centre on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018, in Pyeongchang,

Readers Write: Women in the Olympics, guns and public safety, older workers, clearing the sidewalks

Minnesota laws have bolstered the success of our state's women.
Letters
February 22, 2018
State Auditor Rebecca Otto, Rep. Paul Thissen (Minneapolis), and U.S. Rep. Tim Walz (Mankato) ] GLEN STUBBE • glen.stubbe@startribune.com Frida

Readers Write: Guns and public safety, elder abuse, Winter Olympics

Walz shift is better late than never.
Letters
February 22, 2018
Thousands of NRA members snap photos as Executive Director of the NRA Wayne LaPierre, right, and Executive Director of the NRA Institute for Legislati

Readers Write: Florida school shooting

In defense of the NRA.
Letters
February 20, 2018
Demonstrators participate in a "lie-in" during a protest in favor of gun control reform in front of the White House, Monday, Feb. 19, 2018, in Washing

Readers Write: Florida school shooting, Russian meddling

Responding is not all or nothing.
Letters
February 19, 2018
Students and activists protest against gun violence outside of the White House just days after 17 people were killed in a shooting at a south Florida

Readers Write: Florida school shooting, Minnesota tax policy

This issue changes how I vote.
Letters
February 19, 2018
FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2017, file photo, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty speaks after a Chamber of Commerce breakfast in St. Louis Park, Minn. Pawl

Readers Write: Tim Pawlenty's governor-again potential, developments regarding Garrison Keillor allegations, toll roads, dogs everywhere

No, we had enough the first time.
Letters
February 16, 2018

Readers Write: Duluth schools' decision on 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and 'Huck Finn,' continued responses to the Florida school shooting

Where Duluth has gone wrong.
Letters
February 16, 2018
iStockphoto.com Deer and Hunter in the Woods

Readers Write: Florida school shooting

Have hunters had enough?
Letters
February 15, 2018
The flag above the White House is lowered to half-staff for the shooting victims of a mass shooting in a South Florida High School, Thursday, Feb. 15,

Readers Write: Florida school shooting

What to do when "nothing" won't do.
Letters
February 14, 2018
Students are released from a lockdown following a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018. (Jo

Readers Write: School shooting in Florida, HMOs, political leadership, the market economy on parking and pot, Shaun White at the Winter Olympics, Minnesota as Northwest, priorities

And which way the legislation?
Letters
February 13, 2018
iStockphoto.com High schoolers playing football, with spectators watching.

Readers Write: Contact sports and CTE, Jessie Diggins in the Winter Olympics, Trump and federal spending, early childhood education, the nation's gun laws, Morningside, the 'Northwest'

Tackle football safe? Really?
Letters
February 13, 2018
North hats available at Askov Finlayson. Photo provided by Askov Finlayson

Readers Write: 'Bold North,' marijuana dealers' deaths, Uptown development, rail safety, U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan, Trump's military parade, 'Violet Days' cartoon

'Midwest'? 'North'? Remembering when we were the 'Northwest.'
Letters
February 11, 2018
The scene on Feb. 4, 2018 after an Amtrack train crashed into a CSX frieght train in Cayce, S.C. The engineer and conductor were killed. (Tim Dominick

Readers Write: Train safety, health care middlemen, Minnesota wolves and walleye, Duluth books

Keep the focus on passenger rail safety.
Letters
February 10, 2018
Levi LaValle leapt a snowmobile over Nicollet Mall for the Polaris UpsideDown stunt Saturday. ] ANTHONY SOUFFLE ï anthony.souffle@startribune.com

Readers Write: Maintaining Minnesota's 'Big Mo,' the Tet Offensive

An unwinnable arms race.
Letters
February 9, 2018
Saint Paul Public Schools Superintendent Joe Gothard answered questions from the media about the potential teacher strike. With him were Jackie Turner

Readers Write: St. Paul teachers strike, Gen. John Kelly and Rob Porter, marijuana gummies, development in Uptown, the stolen stadium seat

Please school leaders, lead.
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