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May 7, 2018
Governor Mark Dayton delivers his final annual State of the State Address in the Minnesota State Capitol House Chamber on Wednesday, March 14, 2018, i

Readers Write: Legislature in the home stretch — kitchen-sink bills, taxes, distracted driving; border policies; Oliver North and the NRA; national leadership choices; Met Council

What legislation belongs, what doesn't.
Letters
May 7, 2018
Governor Dayton and Education Commissioner Brenda Cassellius brought educators from around the state to help make the point that school budget shortfa

Readers Write: Schools and the state budget surplus, early childhood education, America's race legacy

Schools, skills, surplus and a rising river.
Letters
May 4, 2018
Pure methamphetamine in rock from, known as ice, was photographed at the DEA's North Central Laboratory in Chicago. Mangers at the lab say this by far

Readers Write: Minnesota's meth crisis, juvenile justice, gun rights, Richard Painter and the U.S. Senate race, young people in the obits

Answer to meth crisis: U.S. border control.
Letters
May 4, 2018
In this July 21, 2017 photo, a Girl Scout badge for learning how to program a robot is seen atop a sample of new badges focused on science, technology

Readers Write: Girl Scouts, elder care, Bill and Camille Cosby, gender bias in reporting on accused killers like Lois Riess

In defense of the Girl Scouts.
Letters
May 3, 2018
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Readers Write: Zero waste, the Korean thaw, gender equity, rural Minnesota, Minneapolis schools, e-pulltabs

Ending littering is the other zero-waste goal.
Letters
May 2, 2018
Jay Hazeman played electronic pull-tabs at the 1029 bar Tuesday May 1, 2018. ] JERRY HOLT ï jerry.holt@startribune.com

Readers Write: E-pulltabs, University of Minnesota football recruiting, threats to Medicaid enrollees, health care administration costs, affordable housing in Minneapolis, parents' screen time

E-pulltabs are "charitable" gaming in air quotes.
Letters
May 1, 2018
A customer buys shopping at a till in the Sainsbury's flagship store in the Nine Elms area of London, Monday, April 30, 2018. Sainsbury's has agreed t

Readers Write: Workplace improvements, the White House Correspondents' Dinner, spanking lawsuit, exploitation of elders, proposed Patrick Henry High name change

Compassionate employers provide comfortable workspaces.
Letters
May 1, 2018
t041418 ---- Clint Austin --- 042718.N.DNT.CALUMET.C07 ---A large fireball erupts during a series of fires and explosions at the Calumet refinery in S

Readers Write: Superior refinery explosion, the name of Patrick Henry High, school bus drivers, foreign-service officers, technologically distracted parents

In Superior, another case for regulation.
Letters
April 27, 2018
FILE - In this June 21, 2013, file photo, the seal affixed to the front of the Department of Veterans Affairs building in Washington. A new first-of-i

Readers Write: Veterans Affairs leadership, possibly renaming of Patrick Henry High, your part in fighting the opioid crisis,

I'm still available, sir.
Letters
April 27, 2018
President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with James Comey, then director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in the Blue Room of the White House

Readers Write: Comparing Trump and Comey, promoting numeracy, the Minnesota Legislature on districting, prayer, guns

Commentary writer put the president and the FBI director he fired side by side and still couldn't see them.
Letters
April 27, 2018
Rep. Paul Thissen laughed as he addressed attendees of Tuesday's press conference in which Thissen was introduced as Minnesota's new Supreme Court Jus

Readers Write: Empty seat in District 61B, University of Minnesota Board of Regents, spring ice dangers, farming's vagaries, Minnesota sports

What an empty seat means in 61B.
Letters
April 26, 2018
James Shaw Jr., who disarmed the man who opened fire at a Waffle House Sunday morning, in Nashville, April 23, 2018. Shaw grabbed the AR-15 rifle from

Readers Write: Waffle House shooting, spanking lawsuit, Starbucks incident, content of Bill Murray show, Minnesota sports

Don't forget about James Shaw Jr., hero.
Letters
April 25, 2018
Rep. Erin Maye Quade of Apple Valley a DFL state lawmaker frustrated with the Minnesota Legislature’s inaction on gun control proposals began a

Readers Write: Gun policy and legislative sit-in, health care costs, Prince and the opioid crisis, panhandling

A legislative sit-in. Good.
Letters
April 24, 2018
There are no public restroom facilities on Nicollet Island. Visitors either have to use the porta potty or walk almost half a mile to the nearest indo

Readers Write: Nicollet Island restroom needs, trade agreements, terminology of gun policy, oil pipeline rulings, affordable housing, panhandling

The Minneapolis Park Board's lost loo.
Letters
April 23, 2018
Prince fan Melissa Rassi of Detroit hung a bag of flowers at a section of the fence memorial constructed in the lobby of the Target Center prior to th

Readers Write: Prince and the opioid crisis, a health care 'moonshot,' Minnesota Poll results on gun policy, oil pipeline analogies

We must step up intervention.
Letters
April 21, 2018
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Mouth of the Minnesota River in the Mississippi River below of the Fort Snelling. Woodcut engraving after a drawing by Rudolf Cronau (German pa

Readers Write: History of Fort Snelling, the governor's race, school start times

Why any hesitation about including story of all people?
Letters
April 20, 2018
Minneapolis Police Union President Lt. Bob Kroll spoke to the media following Friday afternoon's press conference, in which Mayor Betsy Hodges and Pol

Readers Write: Minneapolis police union, body cameras, the banking industry, early learning, oil pipelines

Frey sends a message to the union.
Letters
April 20, 2018
FILE - In this May 24, 2017, file photo, sun rises behind the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul, Minn. Minnesota lawmakers return to Capitol on Tues

Readers Write: Minnesota Legislature and tax policy, Southwest Airlines and regulations, Medical Assistance and work requirements, waste reduction and fixing stuff that's broken

Dump the deadlines, get stuff done.
Letters
April 19, 2018
Patricia Fox stands by her vehicle, which is parked in a designated disability parking spot, in front of her Fremont Avenue home in North Minneapolis

Readers Write: Minneapolis parking, Eighth District DFL convention, gun policy

Not even disabilities count now?
Letters
April 18, 2018
CORRECTS RIVAL TEAM TO CLEVELAND INDIANS - Minnesota Twins starting pitcher Jose Berrios enters the field holding a Puerto Rican flag before game one

Readers Write: Early education, President Trump and evangelicals

Lights on for baseball, at least.

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