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January 24, 2020
This artist sketch depicts impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., presenting an argument in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump o

Readers Write: Impeachment trial, Democratic primary contenders

Some senators can't seem to act their age in the impeachment trial.
Letters
January 23, 2020
Semi-automatic rifles, including some AR-15s, on display at Bill's Gun Shop in Robbinsdale, Minn., on Tuesday, August 6, 2019. T ] RENEE JONES SCHNEID

Readers Write: Gun legislation, Trump supporters, farming, climate change

Less gun control will lead to more violence.
Letters
January 22, 2020
In this image from video, House impeachment manager Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., walks from the podium as he finishes speaking during the impeachment

Readers Write: Impeachment trial, primary voting in Minnesota, winter biking

If Trump is so innocent, why can't we see the evidence?
Letters
January 21, 2020
Once work begins at PolyMet mine near Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota, this tailings basin will be put back into use. Tailings, rock that does not contain ore i

Readers Write: PolyMet mine, Trump supporters, primary voting, Mississippi River projects

Walz has another chance to stop PolyMet. Take it!
Letters
January 20, 2020
FILE - In this June 29, 2018 file photo, pipeline used to carry crude oil is shown at the Superior terminal of Enbridge Energy in Superior, Wis. An up

Readers Write: Enbridge Line 3, presidential primary, infrastructure spending, light rail, Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Line 3 will pave the way for energy in the modern world.
Letters
January 17, 2020
Jared Mollenkof votes at the Minneapolis Early Voting Center, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020, in Minneapolis. Mollenkof and Davis Senseman arrived the night be

Readers Write: Primary voting, federal spending, Mississippi River 'Wishbone' project

We pay $12 million, give the parties our data and get nothing in return. Sound fair?
Letters
January 17, 2020
A pedestrian using a cane walked along an icy sidewalk along Central Avenue Northeast in Minneapolis. ] Shari L. Gross • shari.gross@startribun

Readers Write: Clearing the sidewalks, 'right to repair,' 'Wishbone' on the river, presidential primary and privacy, baseball cheating, the pope and J.K. Rowling

Direct 'icy anger' at government, not residents.
Letters
January 17, 2020
A solitary tree stood in a corn field north of Crane Creek Road in Owatonna, Minnesota after snow fell on Tuesday, January 7, 2019. ] Shari L. Gross &

Readers Write: Winter, impeachment trial, Iran, climate change

I enjoy the winter season from inside.
Letters
January 17, 2020
Under the leadership of U of M Research professor Jacob Jungers (right) (CQ) Bianka Fvzaro (Research Scholar from Brazil) and U of M Student Dayana Ca

Readers Write: Clean drinking water, group homes, Southwest light rail, refugees, primary voting

There is more than one contaminant in our water.
Letters
January 15, 2020
The voting booths of Edison High School in northeast Minneapolis were full at one point during an evening rush Tuesday night. ] AARON LAVINSKY ¥

Readers Write: Minnesota primary requirements, Astros baseball, light rail, refugees

Political parties should be ashamed at their blatant data grab.
Letters
January 14, 2020
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) walks to a news conference after a Senate Democratic policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tu

Readers Write: Impeachment trial, refugees in Beltrami County, asylum-seekers, low wages, wintertime

As the Senate trial looms, may the facts matter.
Letters
January 13, 2020
The International Institute of Minnesota, a refugee resettlement agency in St. Paul, is celebrating its centennial this week. On Tuesday, 126 new immi

Readers Write: Immigrants and refugees, school choice, Enbridge Line 3

Relax, Minnesota, and welcome the stranger.
Letters
January 10, 2020
A Metro Transit bus drove north on Hennepin Avenue in a dedicated bus lane toward the Uptown Transit Station. ] LEILA NAVIDI • leila.navidi@sta

Readers Write: Free transit? Plus: Guns, dogs, 'activist investors' and Gopher basketball attendance

The give-and-take of eliminating transit fare collection.
Letters
January 10, 2020
St. Joseph's Hospital in St Paul.

Readers Write: St. Joseph's Hospital, Iran tensions, farm payouts, education amendment, flying, 2020

If my company closes St. Joseph's Hospital in St. Paul, that will reveal a lot about its values.
Letters
January 10, 2020
Large group of rainbow colored school supplies coming from the top and bottom of the frame shot from above against white background leaving a useful c

Readers Write: Constitutional amendment, welcoming refugees, environmental protection, Line 3, news bias

Proponents of the education amendment think lawsuits will help ensure a quality education. Not so.
Letters
January 9, 2020
Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari and Justice Alan Page are calling on Minnesotans to pass a constitutional amendment aimed at closi

Readers Write: Proposed constitutional amendment, refugee resettlement, news bias, Enbridge Line 3 pipeline

What would the proposed education amendment actually accomplish?
Letters
January 8, 2020
From left, Steven Foldes, a member of the Twin Cities Jewish community, stood beside Imam Asad Zaman with the Muslim American Society of Minnesota as

Readers Write: Religious tolerance, Iran tensions, the new decade

In these dark times, there is some light of tolerance.
Letters
January 8, 2020
This photo released by the Iraqi Prime Minister Press Office shows a burning vehicle at the Baghdad International Airport following an airstrike in Ba

Readers Write: Iran reactions

Readers respond to the escalation of tensions in Iran.
Letters
January 7, 2020
FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2019, file photo a worker gets ready to pass out instructions in how fill out the 2020 census during a town hall meeting in Li

Readers Write: The census and voting maps, Trump's Iran threats, carbon emissions, presidential primary reform, the zoo

Reminder: The new census means new voting maps.
Letters
January 7, 2020
Coffins of Gen. Qassem Soleimani and others who were killed in Iraq by a U.S. drone strike, are carried on a truck surrounded by mourners during a fun

Readers Write: The assassination of Qassem Soleimani, carbon emissions, defining the turn of a decade

How, exactly, are we safer with Soleimani dead?
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