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Letters
March 13, 2019
This combination of images shows college campuses, clockwise from top left, Georgetown University, Stanford University, Yale University, and Universit

Readers Write: College admissions scandal, race and reparations and renaming, Israel and Palestine, electronic scooters

What's a parent to do now?
Opinion
March 12, 2019
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Editorial cartoon: Dana Summers on Democrats

Editorial, New York Daily News
March 12, 2019

Democrats botched Omar response, and Trump followed suit

If the Democrats are anti-Jewish, what does that make Republicans?
Jennifer Rubin
March 12, 2019
In this Feb. 28, 2019, photo, former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the Chuck Hagel Forum in Global Leadership, on the campus of the University of

If THIS Biden runs, he'll win

Economic populism, old-fashioned competence, corny patriotism, down-to-earth confidence — a formidable platform.
Letters
March 12, 2019
FILE -- A scooter on the sidewalk in downtown San Francisco, April 16, 2018. Doctors and public health workers in San Francisco are preparing to track

Readers Write: Electric scooters and safety, a letter from Walter Mondale regarding Ilhan Omar, renaming buildings at the U, Olympian's death

There's danger — be responsible.
Peggy Scott
March 12, 2019
The Minnesota State Capitol as seen from downtown St. Paul. ] GLEN STUBBE • glen.stubbe@startribune.com Monday, December 3, 2018 EDS, available

While two bills would eat away at patient privacy, another protects it

Business groups are trying to change state law to allow release of data without consent, but my bill would give you the control.
Ron Johnson
March 12, 2019
iStockphoto.com INCOME TAX REPORTING No small task in Minnesota

Here's how governor's budget affects you: local aid keeps up your way of life

The increase in local government aid is what cities use to open libraries, keep up parks and plow streets without raising taxes.
Nancy Gibbs
March 12, 2019
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), left, talks with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) during a news conference outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Mar

Shame on you: Except, in politics, shame has lost its power

As politicians gut it out rather than bow out, we are left to wonder when they will be held accountable.
Editorial
March 12, 2019
FILE - In this April 5, 2017, file photo, Dr. Scott Gottlieb speaks during his confirmation hearing before a Senate committee, in Washington, as Presi

New head of FDA should continue agency's crackdown on vaping

Trump's pick to replace Gottlieb must protect teens.
Editorial
March 11, 2019

Facebook takes a partial step toward more user privacy

But its main social network will continue gathering, selling personal data.
John C. “Chuck” Chalberg
March 11, 2019
Coffey Hall on the Saint Paul campus of the University of Minnesota on Friday, March 1.] TONY SAUNDERS ° anthony.saunders@startribune.com

Renaming things: Do unto predecessors as you would have done unto you

The scouring agents of history would be wise to consider their contradictions. What will change 100 years from now?
Letters
March 11, 2019
Minnesota's US Senator-elect Paul Wellstone (left), with wife Sheila (right), holds a news conference in front of the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Wa

Readers Write: Ilhan Omar and the example of Paul Wellstone, renaming buildings at the U, how whites respond to threats to the social order, national debt, Paul Manafort's sentence, eggs and cholesterol

The example of Paul Wellstone.
Opinion
March 11, 2019
Editorial cartoon: Michael Ramirez on Democrats and division

Editorial cartoon: Michael Ramirez on Democrats and division

Editorial
March 11, 2019
FILE - In this Nov. 25, 2018 file photo, a migrant runs from tear gas launched by U.S. agents, amid members of the press covering the Mexico-U.S. bord

End spying on news media at the southern border

Secret database program belies the country's role as a beacon for freedom of the press.
Letters
March 10, 2019
Quinn Nystrom, a diabetes activist, prepared 150 pennants for a diabetes rally to be held in the State Capitol Tuesday, March 5, at noon. ] GLEN STUBB

Readers Write: Prescription drug 'roulette,' 'menopause belly,' 'Dying of Whiteness' book review, safety of anesthesia, tax avoidance and fairness, politics and natural resources

No thrill for patients.
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