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Another downtown Minneapolis shooting puts spotlight on security plans
Gunfire at Crave underscores need for businesses to work with city and police.
Letters
Readers Write: Artificiality of race, immigrants' contributions, Noor's appeal, the Republican Party
Don't let artificial categories divide us.
Jay Ambrose, Tribune News Service (TNS)
The four congresswomen are doing illegal immigrants no favors
Trump asked for a bill giving $4.5 billion to the border. They voted no.
Scott Duke Kominers
What if we tax plastic straws instead of ban them?
Banning plastic straws and bags requires a change in human habits. A tax might be more incentive to change.
Lindsay M. Harris
New asylum rule would basically end asylum at the border
If this rule is not blocked in court, the only remaining way to seek asylum in the U.S. may be to obtain a visa and board a flight. But there is no visa for seeking asylum.
Diane Marie Amann
Remembering Justice John Paul Stevens: To those of us who clerked for him, the Boss
His imprint on U.S. jurisprudence cannot be captured in a few short paragraphs, but here are highlights.
Editorial
Out-of-touch 'Billy Graham rule' resurfaces in Mississippi
Gubernatorial candidate won't let a female reporter interview him alone.
Letters
Readers Write: St. Louis Park and the pledge, Trump's racist tweets, 3M and the environment
Democracy sans circus, please.
Editorial
Turkey's troubling dance with Putin
Ankara's purchase of Russian missile-defense system is a blow to relationship with the U.S.
Sue Abderholden
Another JFK 'moonshot' — a complete mental health system — is underachieved
He laid down the challenge for a complete mental health system about the same time he set us on the path to go to the moon.
Victor M. Sandler
Bus-shelter crash: A wrong turn by an 83-year-old motorist, and a wrong conclusion
After last week's crash, I renew my call for legislation that appropriately protects both elderly drivers and the public.
Cartoons
Editorial
Trump taps the tool kit of racism once again
The "go back where you came from" message is especially ignorant, hurtful.
Editorial
Protect the shield and sword of internet publishing
If Congress isn't careful, the online world will only grow less friendly.
Sara Greethurst
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How a St. Paul backer through and through soured on that city
Minneapolis is now the place for me, even though I work in downtown St. Paul.
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