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Watch: An interview with U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips at the State Fair
Editorial writer Patricia Lopez interviewed the Third District congressman on Thursday afternoon on the Star Tribune Stage. Topics included campaign finance, a trip to the southern border, common ground on immigration, the minimum wage, health care, trade, deficits.
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Watch: An interview with U.S. Rep. Angie Craig at the State Fair
Editorial writer Patricia Lopez interviewed the Second District congresswoman on Thursday morning on the Star Tribune Stage. Topics included special education, energy production, farming and the trade war, and health care.
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Watch: An interview with U.S. Sen. Tina Smith at the State Fair
Editorial writer Patricia Lopez interviewed Smith on Thursday morning on the Star Tribune Stage. Topics included tariffs and farming, housing, renewable energy, health care and insulin, and gun safety.
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Remembering the life-saving heroism of pilot Al Haynes
Like Sully 20 years later, he stayed calm during crash landing in Iowa.
Brett McDonnell
Counterpoint: How do we ensure CEOs act for stakeholders?
Of course corporations should serve broader values, but we need to make sure that happens in a reasonable way.
Carl Larsen
Ruling in filmmaking/marriage case is a win for free speech
We simply don't believe that the state can compel filmmakers to create content that violates their core beliefs, religious or not.
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Watch: An interview with Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison at the fair
Editorial writer Patricia Lopez interviewed Ellison on Wednesday afternoon on the Star Tribune Stage. Topics included opioids, disparities, wage theft, the filmmaking/marriage ruling, and the role of the attorney general.
Jim Goodman and Anthony Pahnke
Farmers deserve a bill of rights
Here's what such a set of protections would do, and why it's needed now.
Grover Norquist
Indexing capital gains would help more than the rich
Twenty-four million American households had a capital gains filing in 2016, and 56% of those households earned less than $100,000 per year.
Editorial
For world's leaders, a bizarre G-7 weekend in Biarritz
Trump contributed by adding his own brand of weirdness.
Christopher D. Knopf
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Editorial counterpoint: Just Twin Metals in worries about safety secrecy?
That concern is valid, and equally so are apprehensions about the PolyMet process. Both mining projects are threats.
Monica Nilsson
Whac-A-Mole policies toward homelessness are cruel and ineffective
Bouncing people out of light rail, or any public setting, just furthers the problem. The solution is to shelter people until they have housing.
Ellen Dunkel
What a morning-show host got wrong by criticizing Prince George
The "Good Morning America" host has since apologized. Ballet is for boys, too, and the interest shouldn't be stifled.
Jonathan Bernstein
A point-by-point rebuttal of a congressional tweet about the Electoral College
Changing how we elect presidents won't lead to tyranny.
James P. Lenfestey
David Koch, 1940 to 2019: A shameful legacy of outsized anti-science influence
The free-market motives he championed with his brother are suspect. We'll all pay a price for their climate change denial.
Michael Nesset
To everything there's a season, so farewell to my fifth-wheel
The Scamp — also known and loved as the Scamper, or El Scampo — was the perfect way to adventure through midlife. But as all things do, it's run its course.
Jocelyn Hale
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The implicit chill of August again
The preservation of warmth is an instinct, and at this time of year, a commodity.
Brian Rosenwald
Joe Walsh has little shot of beating President Trump
Primary challenge pits a rhetorical bomb-thrower against the master of the same.
Charles Koch and Brian Hooks
Charles Koch: Americans are asking too much of top-down political ideas
Solving our problems is not just up to policy. Leaders must empower people, too.
David Willoughby
Minnesota has strong past, uncertain future in tobacco fight
ClearWay Minnesota, a leader in a successful effort, is due to sunset in 2022, even as new challenges arise.
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