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D.J. Tice
Want to know what health care costs in Minnesota? You may be in luck.
Minnesota legislation may lift the veil. It's passed the Senate and awaits action in the House.
Lori Sturdevant
Minnesota's state universities will fuel the future. So … legislators?
Public higher education must not be neglected.
Editorial, Mankato Free Press
There was no room for Richard Painter in Trump's GOP
His switch to DFL in U.S. Senate race is fallout from GOP's makeover.
Kevin Lindsey
Minnesota Senate must step up and pass bill on sexual harassment
State law needs a change. This bipartisan measure would make it. This is no time to back off.
Jon L. Pryor and Charles Reznikoff
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Unsettled issues at the Minnesota Legislature: Drugmakers must help pay for opioid solutions
The crisis demands changes in how pain is treated and in drug tracking. Pharma firms, which helped create the problem and have profited, need to chip in on the costs.
Cynthia M. Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TNS)
Time to take cheerleaders' bump and grind out of pro football?
In the wake of the #MeToo movement this is one 'contact sport' that has outlasted its time.
Editorial
Booming job growth should push up wages
It's also worth celebrating lower unemployment among blacks, Latinos.
Joe Nocera, Bloomberg View
How swell, these stock buybacks (insert asterisk)
Maximizing shareholder value, they call it. Which may or may not be the case. What's clear, however, is that workers are being minimized.
Ana Marie Cox
With progressive feminist allies like Schneiderman, who needs sexist pigs?
Correct politics has never been a guarantee of decent behavior.
R.T. RYBAK
Why Minnesota's 1998 tobacco settlement was a game-changer
For 20 years, it has funded such initiatives as a prevention center and a children's foundation.
Kirk Schneidawind
Editorial counterpoint: School boards are already pretty 'nimble'
Minnesota districts are dealing with a lot more complexities than editorial acknowledged.
Jason Lewis
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Editorial counterpoint: Apologists for Met Council are getting desperate
The usual suspects, such as Gov. Dayton and Mayor Frey, are making a last-gasp effort to hang onto power.
Karen deLacy
Gina Haspel can help fix the CIA's gender problem
I'm aware of the current debate around her nomination as director. But inclusion brings proven benefits to any workforce. That's especially true in the world's second-oldest profession — espionage.
Todd Gitlin
1968 remembered: The year that tumbled revolutionary communism
In the course of the year, four versions of communist leadership were gravely discredited: in France, Czechoslovakia, Cuba and China.
David Foster
1968 remembered: A Minnesotan in Paris during the uprising
The city that year was a social laboratory for identifying the conflicts in a post-World War II order. The lasting message : that societies can and must debate themselves, though at a price.
Trudy Rubin, Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS)
What to expect from Putin's fourth term
It starts with a joke about sanctions that "isn't really funny."
Clive Crook, Bloomberg View
No dull administrative matter: a meditation on citizenship
I have a green card, so it isn't complicated. Yet it's a really big deal. The subject preoccupies me as I apply to become an American.
Editorial
Get vets the care they need — when and where they need it
Some routine care doesn't have to be delivered at a VA hospital or clinic.
Diana Benjaafar
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Counterpoint: Minneapolis school board made the right budget choices
It was critical to restore a $6.4 million cut to the district's middle and high schools.
Stephen L. Carter, Bloomberg News (TNS)
An open letter to the creator of 'The West Wing' (the TV show)
A reboot? Yes, please! But you'll have to do a few things differently. Here's a map of needs for modern fiction.
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