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October 1, 2018
iStock Group of people screaming in megaphones at scared guy.

Readers write: Attack ads, Kavanaugh hearings, Amy Klobuchar, fatal crash, Nicollet Mall, Joe Mauer

Enough trashing of your opponent; tell us about YOU.
Letters
September 28, 2018
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018. (Erin S

Readers Write: The Ford-Kavanaugh hearings

You'd be that angry, too.
Letters
September 28, 2018
April 12, 1981 Sunday services at Mount Olivet Lutheran Church are well-attended. March 15, 1981 Kent Kobersteen, Minneapolis Star Tribune ORG XMIT: M

Readers Write: How to fill the churches, reconciling reason and faith

Through faith alone …
Letters
September 28, 2018
Rep. Keith Ellison addresses his campaign volunteers and supporters before sending them off on a door knocking campaign. ] ALEX KORMANN • alex.

Readers Write: Keith Ellison, protection of grizzly bears, opioids for chronic pain

A calculated move.
Letters
September 27, 2018
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018. (Erin S

Readers Write: Kavanaugh-Ford hearings

The right temperament for the court?
Letters
September 26, 2018
President Donald Trump addresses the U.N. General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York on Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018. (Dave Sanders/The New York Tim

Readers Write: President Donald Trump at the United Nations, Brett Kavanaugh, school budgets, single-parent households

American solo act is perilous.
Letters
September 25, 2018
Sexual assault survivors along with their supporters at the #MeToo Survivors March against sexual abuse Sunday, Nov. 12, 2017 in Los Angeles, Calif. A

Readers Write: Allegations and the #MeToo movement, gubernatorial candidate Jeff Johnson's tax-cut plans

We must strike a balance.
Letters
September 24, 2018
Those who identified only as extended members of the family of Sheryl and Kenneth Carpentier, two of the victims, hugged after putting up balloons and

Readers Write: Police chase and crash, homeless encampment, passenger rail between Twin Cities and Chicago, U.S. affairs with China and Russia, Jeff Johnson and tax cuts

State Patrol is not to blame.
Letters
September 21, 2018
iStock A gavel rests on its sounding block with a several law books and a justice scale out of focus in the background.

Readers Write: Allegation against Kavanaugh, school safety, nuclear weapons, school safety, good-news Gophers, Minneapolis Park Board pay

What the statutes (in Minnesota) would indicate.
Letters
September 21, 2018
Illustration by Matt Chinworth for the Star Tribune.

Readers Write: Reason and faith, attack ads

The reconciliation (?)
Letters
September 21, 2018
The apple breeds that are deemed good enough to make it to the next level of research are moved into a different part of the Uís Horticultural Re

Readers Write: Minnesota apple industry, getting around with a lower carbon footprint

The origin (in Minnesota).
Letters
September 20, 2018
Last year, about 62 percent of Minnesota children between the ages of 6 months and 17 years received vaccinations last influenza season.

Readers Write: Flu shots, allegations against Kavanaugh, Ellison, (Clinton, Trump, Franken …)

Flu prevention is no laughing matter.
Letters
September 19, 2018
Rep. Keith Ellison pauses during his press conference to think about his response to a question. He spoke to the press regarding the domestic abuse al

Readers Write: Kavanaugh and Ellison, low awareness in Minnesota Poll, homeless encampment, limits on refugees, U.S. Rep. Jason Lewis on criminal-justice reform

And what about Ellison?
Letters
September 18, 2018
FILE-- Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trumpís nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciar

Readers Write: Allegation against Brett Kavanaugh, Medicare, third-party candidacies

The limits of toleration.
Letters
September 17, 2018
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey visited the growing homeless encampment near the LIttle Earth housing project last week, and talked with American Indian

Readers Write: Minneapolis and housing, sexual-assault allegation against Brett Kavanaugh

Worrisome situations entangle.
Letters
September 14, 2018
A traffic light is seen outside the Perugino Gate at the Vatican, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018. A delegation of U.S. Catholic cardinals and bishops met Th

Readers Write: Catholic Church, skepticism on hurricane deaths, the media, skepticism itself

Why I stay.
Letters
September 14, 2018
Readers Write: 'A letter concerning toleration,' Minneapolis and the car culture, Dean Phillips and campaign finance reform

Readers Write: 'A letter concerning toleration,' Minneapolis and the car culture, Dean Phillips and campaign finance reform

Embrace disagreement.
Letters
September 14, 2018
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Readers Write: VocalEssence in Mexico, special needs and churches, public housing, Kavanaugh nomination

Traveling musical ambassadors
Letters
September 13, 2018
A smoky haze obstructs the sun as it sets behind the Rocky Mountains that usually can be seen late Monday, Aug. 20, 2018, in Denver. Smoke from the co

Readers Write: Skepticism on climate change, skepticism of vaping concerns, Trump's veracity, donating blood

Please, 'scientists,' define 'normal.'
Letters
September 12, 2018
Crews board up the Oceanic restaurant in Wrightsville Beach, N.C., Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018, in preparation for Hurricane Florence. (Matt Born/The Star

Readers Write: Climate change, being black in America, St. Paul Ballet firing, voting for judges, public housing funding

Remember when North Carolina banned science on warming?
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