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Dan McGrath
Defining what makes a candidate a true progressive
Choose those whose bold actions match their visions.
John Erwin
Outgoing Minneapolis Park Board Member John Erwin offers his recommendations
Turnover is a good thing. It's invigorating. However, it's also important that candidates have a solid understanding of roles vs. rhetoric. These nine do.
Betsy Hodges
Editorial counterpoint from Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges: I've delivered results and leadership
Partnerships, investments and policies have built on Minneapolis' strengths, and we are confronting our challenges.
Russ Henry
Counterpoint: Here's my plan for ending pesticide use in Minneapolis parks
Contrary to implications, I've taken time to educate myself on this topic.
Brad Bourn
Minneapolis Park Board incumbent Brad Bourn: These are the candidates who'll bring inclusion
Our slate believes everyone in Minneapolis deserves access to world-class parks, programs.
Editoiral, San Jose Mercury News
Silicon Valley is under attack
Its problems must be fixed, but tech industry remains critically important.
Tom Austin
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I asked 350 people who live along or near Lake Calhoun about renaming it
The breakdown is 20 percent for and 80 percent against. Equally interesting are the reasons.
Gregory Hestness
Minneapolis election issues: Don't underestimate the role of school resource officers
There's been some talk of eliminating them. Here's what I know from direct experience.
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.
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