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Melissa Barnes
Drive as if that pedestrian is your child, father, mother, brother, sister or friend
We all need to stay alert and aware – whether we are in a vehicle or on foot – to save lives.
Greg Sargent, The Washington Post
Among women, the college-educated, the Trump-ocalypse is coming.
His alienation from those groups puts key states out of reach — yet he's doubling down on the tone and themes they dislike.
Jamal Abdulahi
Trump's attack on Somalis illustrates the harm he could do
And Minnesota's GOP leaders have a moral duty to speak out.
Michelle Dabrowski
Allina and the nurses union: Why I will go to work even if strike is called
For financial reasons, yes, since I am my family's sole earner. But mostly because I don't want to abandon my patients, my unit and my hospital communities.
Connie Ferdinand
Allina and the nurses union: Management is putting same lipstick on a different pig
Counterpoint: Hospital management's take-it-or-leave-it offer is no "healthy compromise." In fact, Allina only insults us nurses and issues us ultimatums.
Editorial
Savor these golden moments
Rio Olympics have given us Phelps and Bolt, two of the greatest ever.
Andrew Malcolm, Special to McClatchy (TNS)
Media bias as I see it
Yes, it exists, though not as a conspiracy. Also, candidates use it to keep their side united against a common enemy. Also, no one likes the messenger.
Dr. Penny Wheeler, 
Allina's offer to the union is a healthy compromise
Latest health care proposal to nurses would keep insurance plans that 95 percent use.
Stephanie Fenner
Counterpoint: Minnesota's economy is on the right track now
To the extent there's mediocrity, can we really blame blue-state policies when red-state ones held sway for much of the last 15 years?
Steve Schewe
Memo to Hillary Clinton (do not read until Nov. 9)
Here's a list of the 10 things you should do next.
Leigh Sprague
My nice introduction to 'Minnesota Nice'
In particular, the people I've met aren't passing judgment on my less than "typical" arrival.
Travis N. Rieder
Is the 'lesser of two evils' an ethical choice for voters?
They may have to get their hands dirty.
The bus rapid transit Orange Line: An idea everyone should value?
A pair of commentaries on Twin Cities-area regional planning.
Multiple authors
For the good of the region, counties must support the Orange Line by Sept. 2
Reliable, frequent bus rapid transit along Interstate 35W is part of a vision for a busy corridor.
Kim Crockett
Editorial counterpoint: Why fight over light rail when there's bus rapid transit?
BRT is cheaper than LRT. It could actually ease congestion and, if it fails, it's less down the drain.
The economy: Clinton's vision is hyperactive
Some noteworthy ideas, but her government won't ever get out of the way.
Dick Meyer, Scripps Washington Bureau (TNS)
Is real political leadership still possible?
No voice can speak with credibility and moral authority across our pluralistic fences. But we don't necessarily need that.
John Hinderaker
Minnesota, where the economy is not even average
Minnesotans can't be complacent when these data show that productivity and job growth are falling, and falling behind.
D.J. Tice
Gains, losses cancel out from Seattle's minimum-wage hike
Does mandated higher pay shrink hours, kill jobs? An early study says it seems to.
Editorial
Trump's latest fiction fuels conspiracy theorists
ISIL claims fuel anti-Obama conspiracy theorists.
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