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February 1, 2019
Photo credit: Brad Wilson/Ecos Energy The largest solar-electric installation in Minnesota sits on a field outside Slayton, Minn., 180 miles southwest

Readers Write: Xcel Energy's system sufficiency, Amy Klobuchar's possible presidential candidacy, redistricting reform

Blame renewables? Oh, come on.
Letters
February 1, 2019
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Readers Write: Marijuana legalization

There are other ways than this to address racial inequities.
Letters
February 1, 2019

Readers Write: State dog designation, 'at-risk' profiling, transportation statewide, deforestation and Cargill, Trump and Putin

Legislators, go with mixed-breed.
Letters
January 31, 2019
Smoke rises from the chimneys of homes in St. Paul's West 7th neighborhood Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019, as furnaces tried to keep up with the record brea

Readers Write: Xcel Energy's system sufficiency, George Will writing about Amy Klobuchar, Democrats and Howard Schultz, the weather on TV

A cold slap in the face, indeed.
Letters
January 30, 2019
Carolyn Christofferson, a freshman at the University of Minnesota studying biomedical engineering, walked bundled up against the cold Tuesday.

Readers Write: The cold, Minneapolis and its neighborhoods, the U.S. and Venezuela, newspaper delivery

Every Minnesotan complains about the weather, and thank goodness for that.
Letters
January 29, 2019
Former NFL player Duane Benson is leaving his post as the head of Minnesota Business Partnership. GENERAL INFORMATION: Thursday, September11, 2003-Min

Readers Write: Remembering Duane Benson, mining safety, the cold snap, America's finances, Bible literacy, marijuana legalization

Duane Benson's bipartisan spirit needed today.
Letters
January 28, 2019
A man stands at a blocked road after a dam collapsed near Brumadinho, Brazil, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2019. The dam that held back mining waste collapsed,

Readers Write: Mining safety, climate and cars, marijuana legalization, America's 'bumps in the road' (!), outdoor hockey

Bad news from Brazil.
Letters
January 25, 2019
President Donald Trump walks through the Colonnade from the Oval Office of the White House as he arrives to announce a deal to temporarily reopen the

Readers Write: The shutdown deal, border security and immigration; State of the Union; American attitudes, Sack's squirrel cartoon

Will the payoff arrive?
Letters
January 25, 2019
FILE -- President Donald Trump dances with first lady Melania Trump at the Freedom Ball after his inauguration in Washington, Jan. 20, 2017. New detai

Readers Write: President Donald Trump, marijuana legalization, VA health care, prolife beliefs and the National Mall incident, the Iron Range and Cornish pasties

Trump, miserable? No, he's the man.
Letters
January 25, 2019
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Readers Write: Income tax reporting in Minnesota, paid leave, race and law enforcement, presidential primary in Minnesota

Filling out tax forms is no small task in Minnesota.
Letters
January 24, 2019
Past University of Minnesota president Nils Hasselmo participates in a panel discussion with six presidents of the University of Minnesota at Northrop

Readers Write: Remembering Nils Hasselmo, bemoaning America

Inclusion and kindness.
Letters
January 23, 2019
Seth Kern, with Lake States Construction, a sub-contractor of Lake Connections, readied telephone poles in Two Harbors to string stainless steel stran

Readers Write: Broadband projects, population growth, assisted suicide

Such resistance to being helpful.
Letters
January 23, 2019
A protestor leads a Native American prayer with a traditional drum outside the Catholic Diocese of Covington Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019, in Covington, Ky.

Readers Write: Culture clash on National Mall, status of Commons park, border wall/shutdown

A question about convictions.
Letters
January 22, 2019
Tom Baldwin of Paint Creek, W.V., tries to download the new online sports betting application onto his smart phone soon after the official ribbon cutt

Readers Write: Sports gambling in Minnesota, census ruling, Jordan-Roosevelt dispute, state information technology, youth sports and concussions

Don't limit potential legalization of sports gambling in Minnesota to reservations.
Letters
January 18, 2019
Rep. Ilhan Omar, a freshman Democrat representing Minnesota's 5th Congressional District, walks from her new office in the Longworth House Office Buil

Readers Write: U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, e-cigarette advertising, Final Four costs, the harm once brought by women's hats

Celebrate a fresh, honest voice in Congress.
Letters
January 18, 2019
Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie testifies before a joint hearing of the House and Senate Veterans' Affairs Committees on Capitol Hill in Wash

Readers Write: VA health care, credit for 'Miracle on the Hudson,' 1969 revisited, poetry's new generation, timber harvest, Jayme Closs case

Wary of increased privatization.
Letters
January 18, 2019
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Readers Write: Youth sports and concussions, the garbage burner and personal responsibility, Trump banner at prep game, MLK Day

Concussion risks necessitate a federal law.
Letters
January 17, 2019
The Trump flag’s owner said there was no racist intent behind displaying it at the Jordan vs. Minneapolis Roosevelt game.

Readers Write: Trump flag at Jordan-Roosevelt high school basketball game, equality vs. equity, the labor movement, Target and Thor Cos., the Rush Line and White Bear Lake

An offense, or also free speech?
Letters
January 16, 2019
This image released by CBS shows Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D- N.Y. with host Stephen Colbert during a taping of "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert," T

Readers Write: Kirsten Gillibrand and the presidency, border wall, liberty and inequality, technology and global competitiveness

A presidential possibility with a shadow: The push for Al Franken's resignation from Senate.
Letters
January 15, 2019
September 11, 1971 HE WAS OUT OF ORDER--Former Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev pounded on his desk during speech by U.N. Secretary General Dag Ham

Readers Write: Questions of Russian influence, whether to concede in the shutdown, Metropolitan Council leadership shakeup, marijuana and driving

Seems like a self-interment to me.
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