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Peter Hutchinson
Minneapolis' next mayor: Agent for children or education bystander?
No, the mayor doesn't run the schools. That's no excuse for inattention. Here's what a mayor can do.
Lori Sturdevant
With Park Board, Minneapolis voters must resolve an intense generational struggle
New ideas this election at the cost of experience?
Amber Phillip
Trump's 'fake news' claim is now harder to defend
Monday's indictments are sufficiently substantive to warrant letting go of that trope.
Noah Smith, Bloomberg View
The rise of the creative class worked well. Maybe too well.
Noted urbanist Richard Florida now sees metropolises that have become engines of exclusion. But I'd add that forces that economists blame for rising inequality — changes in taxation, globalization, the decline of unions, and technological change — have little to do with urban policy, and will be hard to fix at the local level.
MIKE TIKKANEN
At long last, Minnesotans, stand up for foster children
It's not a matter of money but one of our attention and commitment.
Ellen J. Kennedy
Responsibility for human rights: 'Sovereignty' is a cop-out for turning away from global needs
Trump's philosophy, as laid out before the United Nations, is a departure in direction.
From the MINNEAPOLIS LEGISLATIVE DELEGATION
Beware the crush of far-right money in municipal elections
The Minnesota Jobs Coalition wants to buy the Minneapolis City Council. Don't let it.
David Durenberger and Al Franken
Al Franken, David Durenberger: Bipartisan first step on health care puts grandstanding aside
The Alexander-Murray bill crafted by a Republican and a Democrat goes long way toward consensus on lowering costs, improving care.
Bonnie Blodgett
Life as an Airbnb host: This changes everything
Regulations? No problem. Just not the ones that threaten this new spirit of business that thrives on local energy, not global power.
FROM AN EDITORIAL ON BLOOMBERG VIEW
Amazon's HQ2: You lose, probably. But it least it got you thinking.
The topic: How to make growth organic in the long term.
D.J. Tice
Here's something for Democrats to meditate upon
Will they win because of what they're moving toward or lose because of those they're moving from?
Stephen B. Young
Thank Martin Luther for our modern world
From the monk's symbolic act 500 years ago spring science, capitalism and constitutional democracy.
Matthew Koncar
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Let's have a do-over on open letter from St. Paul police union
If it were up to me, here's how the St. Paul Police Federation could have handled its communication on Melvin Carter's burglary.
Jeff Bergner, The Virginian-Pilot (TNS)
Is Trump merely restoring constitutional government?
Faced with a do-nothing, talk-a-lot Congress, the president is using executive powers to reverse Obama's executive excesses, and giving lawmakers back their powers, if only they had the backbone to use them.
WILLIAM DAMMANN
Counterpoint: Regent's arguments about U tuition are unfounded
Keep the prices affordable for homegrown students — and don't soak the out-of-staters.
Pamela Schmid
Barb Lutz
Take it from me: How not to handle military condolences calls
Trump tried to do the right thing but in "winging it," he failed. And don't get me started on Gen. John Kelly.
Ed Rogers
Flake is no hero for washing his hands, running away
We need sensible conservatives to stay and fight for the GOP's soul and to protect America, not themselves.
Sue Abderholden
Mental health legislation: Completing Paul Wellstone's legacy is the next task
Families still cannot always obtain coverage for treatment needed by loved ones.
Martha Wegner
I learned (tangibly) about the power of exclusion at a paint party
When filling in an image that didn't fit me, I understood what friends of color experience.
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