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Letters
Readers Write (Sept. 24): Police-involved shootings, CNN, President Obama, distracted driving, Friday night lights, taking a knee
Put our technological know-how to work on a solution.
Editorial
Mississippi River requires agriculture's help to stay healthy
Minnesota should combine stronger regulations, market-based policies.
Bullying executives won't result in lower prescription drug costs
Congress needs to allow Medicare to negotiate prices, among other steps.
Mitch Pearlstein
Editorial counterpoint: Absenteeism issue missed a big point – the kids
For all the barriers to learning and efforts at school reform, what happened to showing up?
Letters
Readers Write (Sept. 23): National anthem, write-in candidates, prescription drug prices, cellphones, good guys with guns
With high schoolers joining in, a teachable moment.
Editorial
As Syria roils, world leaders must keep pressure on Russia
Humanitarian convoy attack shows how "bar of depravity sinks lower."
Kurt Ullrich
Friday night lights: It's who we are, who we want to be
Similarities trump differences under the lights in town after town.
Ramesh Ponnuru, Bloomberg View
Reckless Edward Snowden deserves no presidential pardon
His leaks had some value for Americans — but they were worth much, much more to our enemies.
Bjorn Lomborg
Feel-good solutions won't solve climate change
Subsidizing solar and wind programs may be politically popular and oh-so fashionable, but investment in green research will pay bigger dividends in human lives.
HAMDI ABDI
Reduced to tears by responses to St. Cloud attacks
The irony is that people are reacting exactly the way terrorist groups like ISIL hope to encourage.
Cartoons
Jim Scheibel and Jeannie Fox
Taxes need to be called just that, not 'fees'
People want straightforward transparency in their governments, not mumbo-jumbo designed to skirt constitutional protections.
Abdi Warsame
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Diversity of Minnesota is what makes us strong in face of terror
It's easy to come together when times are good, but the real test is when they aren't.
Editorial
There are glimmers of economic hope for Minnesota's minorities
The latest income stats aren't as gloomy as last year's for black Minnesotans.
Taking responsibility for the Wells Fargo fiasco
Top executives failed to heed basic ethical practices.
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