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Matt Seaholm
Facts don't support column's call for ban on plastic retail bags
For starters, U.S.-made plastic retail bags are 100 percent recyclable. And bans elsewhere have not produced strong results.
Raymond Dehn
With drug addiction, focus on prevention and treatment, not criminalization
Addiction is a marker of community health, not individual intent. We should create policies accordingly.
From the economist
Global economy on the upswing (no thanks to populists)
If people make the wrong connections about this, the whole thing could blow.
D.J. Tice
What if Trump and Clinton had swapped genders?
Experiment suggests the populist plays best either way. Surprised?
Editorial
Minnesota should brace for federal cuts
Legislators should follow Dayton's lead in preparing for a Trump storm.
Editorial
Luger resignation, rash policymaking threaten Minnesota progress on countering extremism
Rash policymaking in D.C. threatens hard-won local progress on countering extremism.
Letters
Lori Sturdevant
Minnesota's renowned people power is waning
Examples abound. Will citizens get cynical or energized by this?
John Hinderaker
A city-country mice divide in Minnesota? We don't see it that way
Less government, more freedom is good for rural and urban Minnesota.
James Robertson
The case for Democrats' not opposing Gorsuch
I worked to block Robert Bork and regret it because his defeat politicized the process. Now, there's no valid reason to block Gorsuch and a peace offering might benefit all.
Virginia Postrel, Bloomberg View
CAFE standards are lousy environmental policy
Environmentalists are irate over Trump administration plans to roll back Obama gas-mileage regulations, but CAFE rules just aren't a rational way to cut fuel use.
Editorial
Minnesota lawmakers should not approve proposals that would weaken gun control rules.
Minnesota doesn't need weaker gun control rules.
Letters
Readers Write (March 20): Use of 'you guys,' the Equal Rights Amendment, 'Stand Your Ground' laws
The all-purpose use of "guys," opposed.
David Spence
Sinister-sounding 'deep state' isn't necessarily sinister — or subversive
In resisting the agenda of a president, bureaucrats may be trying to carry out their agency's mission, as defined by law.
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