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August 30, 2019
Protesters outside TYS Laundromat in East Harlem, on May 1, 2019. A survey conducted by the Laundry Workers Center found that one in five workers was

Readers Write: CEOs and worker pay, climate change, Minnesota's own deforestation problems, civility

CEO statement dodged the main issue: worker pay.
Letters
August 29, 2019
FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2018, file photo, Mike Starkey offloads soybeans from his combine as he harvests his crops in Brownsburg, Ind. For months, th

Readers Write: Farmers and the trade war, alternatives to natural gas, Ilhan Omar allegations, talk-show politics

Repairing rural America will include getting a new president.
Letters
August 28, 2019
Students board buses at Frances Slocum Elementary School in Marion, Ind., after classes on Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018. Marion Community Schools is lookin

Readers Write: Teachers healing our democracy, Bde Maka Ska conservation district, homelessness, student debt

Teachers can be beacons against hatred.
Letters
August 27, 2019
Jack Weber drove his wheat combine on his field. The wheat doesn't bring much cash but it does improve the health of his soil. ] GLEN STUBBE ¥ gl

Readers Write: Farmers and tariffs, lake name, Afghanistan war, football attendance, David Koch

Tariffs mean that rural America will need repairing.
Letters
August 26, 2019
Kids jumped off the raft off Thomas Beach into Lake Bde Maka Ska Monday afternoon. ] JEFF WHEELER • jeff.wheeler@startribune.com Following the

Readers Write: Bde Maka Ska rename, political campaigns, airport woes, hands-free phone law, Trump and the economy

Renaming Lake Calhoun is not an empty gesture.
Letters
August 23, 2019
Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) workers install new placards changing East and West Lake Calhoun Parkways to East and West Bde Maka Ska P

Readers Write: Bde Maka Ska street names, evidence in politics, Trump and Israel, homelessness, potential recession

The Bde Maka Ska renaming process snubbed residents.
Letters
August 23, 2019
Fountain Pen and Signature

Readers Write: 'A Contract with Common Sense,' cars

An eighth promise is needed.
Letters
August 23, 2019
January 10, 1980 If you earned $18,000 last year and only $12,000 six years ago, you were better off then. Nobel Economist Milton Friedman explains wh

Readers Write: CEO stakeholder pledge, the economy, vaping, immigration

CEOs' reordering of stakeholders is long overdue.
Letters
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.
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