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December 5, 2019
FILE -- From left, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, Steve Castor, the staff attorney for the Repub

Readers Write: Impeachment, 2019 word of the year, Twins baseball, teaching kids how to read

Dictionaries everywhere: I have a 2020 "word of the year" suggestion.
Letters
December 4, 2019
The Mayo Clinic, is joining a joint venture that will run a new “mega-hospital” in the United Arab Emirates. The Sheikh Shakhbout Medica

Readers Write: Health care markets, data on mass shooters, pollution in Minnesota lakes

Market-based health care can't make us all healthy.
Letters
December 3, 2019
Answer sheets with Pencil drawing fill to select choice : education concept

Readers Write: Achievement gap in Minnesota, thoughts on the 2020 Democratic field

The achievement gap has deep roots.
Letters
December 2, 2019
State Human Services Commissioner Jodi Harpstead testified before lawmakers about what she has learned in her first 90 days and her plans going forwar

Readers Write: DHS mismanagement, lunch-shaming, elites in politics, Trump's tax cut

Remember those affected by DHS mismanagement.
Letters
November 30, 2019
Photos by Bob King taken July 16, 2019, for Opinion Exchange/Editorial on Twin Metals, to publish November 24, 2019. Aerial view of Birch Lake showing

Readers Write: Praise, criticism for Twin Metals editorial, plus an alternative

Plus: EPA policy on water, and hunting genetically enhanced animals.
Letters
November 27, 2019
300 dpi Sharon Kilday color illustration of a woman thinking about things to be thankful for. The Dallas Morning News 2007<p> KEYWORDS: gratitude illu

Readers Write: Thanksgiving, democracy, impeachment strategy, the snow

No, really — being thankful works.
Letters
November 27, 2019
FILE - In this Aug. 3, 1973, file photo, the Senate Watergate Committee hearings continueon Capitol Hill in Washington. From left are: Sen. Lowell P.

Readers Write: Impacts of impeachment, morality in politics, Warren's wealth tax, renaming buildings, Minneapolis development

Let's make revived civic engagement the lasting result of impeachment proceedings.
Letters
November 27, 2019
FILE- In this Dec. 22, 2017, file photo President Donald Trump speaks with reporters after signing the tax bill and continuing resolution to fund the

Readers Write: Trump tax cut, presidential pardons, health care solutions, lunch-money shaming

Trump's tax cuts worked for my family. Here's how.
Letters
November 27, 2019
FILE -- A pharmacy in Rohnert Park, Calif., Sept. 17, 2015. The National Academy of Sciences called on Nov. 30, 2017 for sweeping changes in the prici

Readers Write: Prescription drug costs, gun statistics, Mayor Pete's campaign, Wee Willie Walker

Once again, lawmakers turn to the wrong fix for rising drug costs.
Letters
November 26, 2019
FILE -- Demonstrators outside the Supreme Court building as justices heard arguments in a key gerrymandering case, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Oct.

Readers Write: Gerrymandering, health care, affordable housing, Russia and impeachment, Trump

It's time for Democrats to do what they say they wanted.
Letters
November 25, 2019
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Readers Write: Tax bill, Israel policy, gun laws, bird deaths

So Trump's tax cuts "worked." At doing what?
Letters
November 22, 2019
The investigation continues into the origin of the Camp fire, which some say started with a faulty PGA wire in Pulga, Calif. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles

Readers Write: The cost of electricity, fundamentalism, 'Trump-itis,' immigration, China's oppression

Let's use a broader definition of expenses, act accordingly.
Letters
November 22, 2019
A light rail train heads south from the Target Field station in downtown Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019, in Minneapolis MN.] DAVID JOLES &#x2022; david.joles@

Readers Write: Metro transit, rape kits, for-profit schools, U.S. Bank bird problem, school lunch debt, impeachment, kindness

Are you part of the transportation safety solution?
Letters
November 22, 2019
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., questions former White House national security aide Fiona Hill, and David Holmes, a U.S.

Readers Write: Impeachment hearings, vaping, housing market

GOP is right, this is a sham.
Letters
November 21, 2019
St Paul Mayor Melvin Carter began to present a $1.5 million supplemental public safety budget proposal to the City Council on Wednesday afternoon. ] G

Readers write: St. Paul public safety, impeachment, health care, school lunch debt, substance abuse, vaping

'Community-first' definition is off.
Letters
November 20, 2019
Despite years of outcry, some Minnesota school children still get turned away for a hot lunch if their families haven't paid up. [Star Tribune file ph

Readers Write: School lunch debts, impeachment, DHS mismanagement, Minneapolis development, renaming buildings, winter

Kids need lunch. How is this hard?
Letters
November 19, 2019
The shortage of the drug vincristine has imperiled leukemia treatment for Hazel Crowfoot, 6, of Lehi, Utah, her mother says. (Veronica Crowfoot's Inst

Readers Write: Big Pharma's life-threatening 'business decisions,' renaming buildings, Israeli settlements

Kids will die due to Big Pharma's "business decision."
Letters
November 18, 2019
Haley Cosert, 6, of Brainerd, dipped her toes into the water as her sister, Emelia, 9, dried off after swimming in Rice Lake, a small lake formed on t

Readers Write: Polluted Minnesota waters, presidential pardons, untested rape kits, Americans' health habits

I like my water without mercury in it.
Letters
November 15, 2019
Minneapolis Police Sgt. K.A. Angerhofer and SWAT team members stood outside Target Field after the Twins game in Minneapolis on Sunday. Minneapolis Po

Readers Write: Minneapolis crime, impeachment inquiry, next G-7 Summit

Minneapolis prioritizes "inclusion" over safety.
Letters
November 15, 2019
The launch of President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act was marred by the performance of the newly created state health insurance marketplaces. (Dr

Readers Write: U.S. health care, capitalism, culture, mental health laws, achievement gap

The U.S. ranks 27th worldwide in health care for good reason.
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