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August 22, 2019
In this June 24, 2019, photo water flows down Moose Creek near Schroeder, Minn. (Evan Frost/Minnesota Public Radio via AP)

Readers Write: Transparency and the DNR, conservation, Trump's economic policy, media coverage of Trump

A forest divided cannot stand.
Letters
August 21, 2019
Specialist Anthony Matesic, center, works with traders at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019. Stocks are r

Readers Write: Trump's economy, PolyMet mine, political discourse, Brian Oake and the Current, Twin Cities streetcars

The market is not Trump's puppet.
Letters
August 21, 2019
Recent addition to the Current's on-air talent, Brian Oake, takes the stage between musical acts Saturday night for the second half of the Current's e

Readers Write: Brian Oake and the Current, the next recession, Otto Bremer Trust grant, PolyMet's transparency

Was this separation fair?
Letters
August 19, 2019
FILE - In this July 15, 2019, file photo, U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn, right, speaks, as U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich. listens, during a news conf

Readers Write: Omar, Tlaib and entry to Israel; gun control; BWCA protections; birds, glass and stadiums; Greenland

Denying entry and information.
Letters
August 16, 2019
Readers Write: 'Car wars,' immigration restrictions

Readers Write: 'Car wars,' immigration restrictions

And now, the full equation for those with full responsibilities.
Letters
August 16, 2019
Bus & Streetcar in 1953 -- Twin City Rapid Transit Company -- Buses and streetcars shared the streets for many years in Minneapolis-St. Paul. Streetca

Readers Write: Lamenting the streetcar, gun laws, Minnesotans' flood risk, Title X and Planned Parenthood

Old streetcar map shows what we threw away.
Letters
August 16, 2019
Maura Marko and son Jack in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

Readers Write: Mining in northern Minnesota, political change and the Kochs, Omar and Israel, city budgets

Sonny Perdue loves to tout "the process." Sometimes, it spits out a "no."
Letters
August 15, 2019
FILE -- Protesters outside the California Environmental Protection Agency headquarters after a public hearing on increasing restrictions on the use of

Readers Write: Pesticide pollution, the justice system, wage theft, dangers of vaping, Israel

Minnesota must ban a pesticide the EPA won't.
Letters
August 14, 2019
July 1, 1923 Above is shown an aerial view of the immigration station at Ellis Island, which has been handed an­other sound trouncing in th

Readers Write: Immigration rules, Minnesota overpaying tribes, Minneapolis neighborhoods, mining

More facts and nuance regarding immigration, please.
Letters
August 13, 2019
FILE-- A bald eagle, one of the Endangered Species Act’s success stories, is seen perched atop a tree branch over looking the countryside near

Readers Write: Endangered Species Act, Trump's immigration rules, guns, plastic pollution, girls in STEM

Conservation is worth the cost, and more.
Letters
August 12, 2019
An advertisement for a gun show in Ontario is posted on a bus bench enclosure on E Street in San Bernardino on Monday, Dec. 7, 2015, just a few miles

Readers Write: The 'boyfriend loophole' in gun law, gun control, Minneapolis housing

Close the 'boyfriend loophole.'
Letters
August 9, 2019
FILE -- President Donald Trump's bilateral meeting with President Xi Jinping of China at the G-20 Summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019. By allowing t

Readers Write: Trade war with China, Trump, mass shootings, electric scooters

Build pressure, change China.
Letters
August 9, 2019
China's President Xi Jinping attends a meeting with North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Friday, Dec.

Readers Write: The U.S. and China, public employee retirement funds, climate and public health, police-involved killings and media spin, Minneapolis' drive-through ban

People living under a totalitarian regime can freely inform us of their wishes? Huh.
Letters
August 9, 2019
FILE -- Students march to the Capitol in support of gun control legislation, in Washington, March 14, 2019. State laws that let judges take guns away

Readers Write: Gun violence, the state of politics, immigration raids

Lawmakers, act on guns or we'll vote you out­.
Letters
August 8, 2019
Gov. Tim Walz, flanked by his wife, Gwen, right, and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, speaks Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019, during a rally against gun violence at t

Readers Write: Gun control, U.S.-China trade war, Amy Klobuchar, protecting fresh water

Restrict magazine capacity.
Letters
August 7, 2019
The PolyMet mine in Hoyt Lakes, Minn. ] GLEN STUBBE • glen.stubbe@startribune.com Saturday, October 6, 2018 EDS, FOR ANY APPROPRIATE USE

Readers Write: PolyMet mine, reducing gun violence, Rep. Ilhan Omar, hobos, lakeside pavilion

PolyMet pits profit against drinking water.
Letters
August 6, 2019
People crowd around a makeshift memorial near the site of a mass shooting over the weekend at a shopping complex, Monday, Aug. 5, 2019, in El Paso, Te

Readers Write: Mass shootings, clean energy, HealthPartners and St. Paul schools

A half-staff flag is not a shield against future gun violence.
Letters
August 5, 2019
Bodies are removed from at the scene of a mass shooting, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019, in Dayton, Ohio. Several people in Ohio have been killed in the second

Readers Write: Guns and the mass shootings in Ohio and Texas

We chose guns over life. Again.
Letters
August 2, 2019
At the Midtown Farmer's Market, local healthful grown cucumbers and garlic are available for community member to buy with SNAP benefits (formerly know

Readers Write: SNAP benefits abuse, presidential debates, the Twins, the environment

A few abuse SNAP. So what?
Letters
August 2, 2019
Readers Write: Minnesota's urban-rural divide, debts and deficits

Readers Write: Minnesota's urban-rural divide, debts and deficits

Professor's spotlight is stuck.
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