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Minnesota ACA reform saved $61.5 million, can guide innovation
State's 'shared savings' program rewarded providers that cut costs.
Editorial
Balancing integration and achievement goals in Minnesota schools
New rules give state, districts a chance to focus on effective strategies.
Brian DeVore
The Minnesota prairie: To blitz it is to know it
A practice involving both volunteers and professionals is a biological scavenger hunt of sorts — and connects participants to both nature and human practices.
Doug Shidell
Some bicyclists: Are they really jerks? Or just fast riders?
The real issue is whether they're in the right place for their pace.
Lori Sturdevant
Minnesota is at the intersection of history, sensitivity
With State Capitol renovation comes the opportunity to revisit the images on display.
Editorial
In St. Paul, a collaborative effort to keep pedestrians safer
After three years and numerous accidents, intersection gets a fix.
John C. “Chuck” Chalberg
Freedom worth fighting for, we did declare
Lincoln, Jefferson, Coolidge — their names may not roll off the tongue as a trio, but they had something in common.
Letters
Readers Write (July 4): Smoking, Mississippi River, Southwest LRT, bicyclists, sustainability
There's still smoking where it shouldn't be — even near a hospital.
Cartoons
Mike Meyers
The TPP: It's not your party; cry if you want to
Opponents aren't wrong, just improperly focused. Going global with intellectual-property laws is where the money (not yours) will be made.
Editorial
Getting sugar-heavy drinks out of hospitals and clinics sets an example
HealthPartners lends momentum to efforts launched by other providers.
Editorial
Restore rationality to Greece and Europe
Latest instability calls for a permanent fix to the perpetual problem.
Will Stancil
The latest news favors integration in housing
A Harvard study has affirmed it (when done right). And the Supreme Court has kept it possible.
Richard Carmona
Proposed ban on flavored tobacco in Minneapolis is counterproductive
We need to strike a balance between protecting children and helping adults have safer alternatives to smoking.
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