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Ramesh Ponnuru, Bloomberg View
Trump at the U.N.: All in all, speech was pretty conventional
Aside from the bluster, Trump didn't deviate much from what any other Republican president might have said about the global order.
Mark Osler
It's hard not to root for an underdog like Detroit
Hey, Twin Cities, look out! The former wasteland wants to lure its expatriates — like me — back to town.
Editorial
Why so little progress on use of body cameras in Minneapolis?
Audit shows improvement since July, but police are still coming up short.
Letters
Readers Write: Light pollution and tourism, Affordable Care Act repeal, the Trump presidency, police body-worn cameras, double standards
A rather contradictory tourism strategy.
Editorial
Our children are being shot, and Congress cowers
The U.S. gun lobby has used its power to quash the most sensible protections.
Kurt Bardella
The Trump presidency: GOP oversight has gone missing
Consider, for instance, Jared Kushner — a "shadow diplomat" on a "hunt for cash." If this were the Obama years, or the Clinton years …
Letters
Editorial
Don't risk Graham-Cassidy vote without Congressional Budget Office score
Senate lacks the answers it needs to analyze last-ditch health reform bill.
Editorial
Ask us your questions about downtown Minneapolis safety and crime
A Sept. 17 editorial explored the crime problem in downtown Minneapolis. What questions do you have about public safety in the city? Enter them in the box below. If we receive enough good questions, we'll put them up for a reader vote. And if we decide to answer your question in a future editorial, you'll receive a special mention.
Costas Panagopoulos and Aaron Weinschenk
Did Comey give Trump the presidency? We don't think so.
Using an analysis of polling data from the last four months of the campaign, we find no conclusive evidence that the Comey letter led to a decisive shift in voter support. Instead, changes in support for the candidates resulted largely from other factors.
Megan McArdle, Bloomberg View (TNS)
Trump is not being normalized. What is? Leftist bad behavior.
Antifa is not the same as white supremacists. (Just so you can note that, for the record, I said it.) But we're bending over a lot farther backward to accommodate antifa disruption of our rights.
Editorial
Downtown's dilemma: 'A mind-set of violence' in Minneapolis
Minneapolis wants a safe and vibrant downtown for residents, office workers and visitors. But rising rates of violent crime in parts of the city's core threaten to undo years of progress.
Joe Shneider
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Aquatic invasive species: Regional boat inspections inconvenient? Yes, but …
A strategy that Wright County is trying to implement asks more of the boating public, sure. But it's a change we need to make prevention cost-effective and avoid the much larger inconvenience of losing control of our lakes.
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