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June 24, 2020

Responding to a Texas-sized outbreak of COVID-19

Hospitals are nearing capacity, and state needs to be clearer on guidelines
Jerry Dittmann
June 24, 2020
Exterior Panels being replaced at U.S. Bank Stadium April 2020. ] CARLOS GONZALEZ • cgonzalez@startribune.com – Minneapolis, MN – April 29, 2020

The 'People's Stadium' could house homeless

Since U.S. Bank Stadium doesn't have much going on right now, it could be a solution.
Rachel Marsden, Tribune Content Agency
June 24, 2020
FILE -- Then National Security Advisor John Bolton in the Oval Office in Washington, July 19, 2019. Lawyers for the Justice Department and John Bolton

Good thing John Bolton's influence culminates only in a book

If he had succeeded in getting his president to embrace his war fetish, he probably wouldn't have written it.
Brian Dickerson, Detroit Free Press (TNS)
June 24, 2020
A person waves a rainbow flag in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, on Monday, June 15, 2020. The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a landmark ci

Stop the world! Justice Samuel Alito wants to disembark

His worries, and those of his Supreme Court colleagues, involve public restrooms and all the other places respect for LGBT people might lead.
June 23, 2020

In Chicago, "killing season" is off to a troubling start

City's reopening is a concern, but first cut violent crime.
Robert Moilanen
June 23, 2020
President Donald Trump walk up the steps of Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Md., Tuesday, June 23, 2020. Trump is heading to Arizona and is

Biden should reconsider his promise not to pardon Trump

It could be in the best interest of the country to move on — otherwise we may be subjected to years of investigations.
Shirley Leckie Reed
June 23, 2020
FILE - In this Dec. 19, 1939 file photo, a crowd gathers outside the Astor Theater on Broadway during the premiere of "Gone With the Wind" in New York

Counterpoint: The South may have lost the war, but its culture won

Americans accepted ideas pushed by books and media that supported racism.
Mary Kunesh-Podein
June 23, 2020
Monday February 18, 2013 was History Matters Day at the Minnesota State Capitol. Civil War re-enactors from Historic Fort Snelling were on hand standi

Counterpoint: We must see historical injustices clearly

It's a necessary step to combat modern inequities.
Jonathan Bernstein, Bloomberg Opinion (TNS)
June 23, 2020
A voter fills out her ballot during the Kentucky Primary at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, Ky., Tuesday, June 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Timot

Please, let's elect some younger U.S. senators

The problem isn't turnover so much as the age of those who are coming in.
Chris Reed, San Diego Union-Tribune (TNS)
June 23, 2020
FILE -- U.S. Park Police officers near the White House on June 1, 2020, when hundreds of protesters were forcibly cleared from Lafayette Square before

How an 1871 civil rights law morphed into a police protection act

The law has been steadily weakened by judges — both liberal and conservative — discovering nuances.
June 22, 2020

OSHA seems to be sitting out the pandemic

It should be protecting workers, but federal agency is missing in action.
Elijah Todd-Walden
June 22, 2020
A man paused to kneel at the George Floyd memorial outside of Cup Foods. ] LEILA NAVIDI • leila.navidi@startribune.com BACKGROUND INFORMATION: A rai

'Bad apple' theory is of little comfort to me

Those bad apples can, and do, kill young black men just like me.
Myron Orfield and Will Stancil
June 22, 2020
June 8, 1963 Negro Parents Blocked buses that were to take their children to schools in St. Louis Parents said the schools were segregated; several bu

This area's been told for decades: Segregation won't work

Now, finally, we see.
Robin R. Bell and Paul D. Bauknight Jr.
June 22, 2020

Revamp the Upper Harbor project

If we want to see real change, this development needs to support its north Minneapolis community, not outside businesses.
D.J. Tice
June 22, 2020
A person holds a sign while sitting on a statue of Abraham Lincoln outside of City Hall in San Francisco, Saturday, June 13, 2020, at a protest over t

With malice toward all, with charity for none

America's culture war rages on.
Drew Westen
June 22, 2020
Protesters placed a large umbrella calling to defund the police in from of the major office during a rally to mark Juneteenth which commemorates the e

Democrats' problem is often not what they want to do but how they present it

They have a way of turning away potential supporters with the wrong language. For example, the phrase "defund the police."
Bruce Peterson
June 22, 2020
George Floyd's growing memorial outside Cup Foods at East 38th Street and Chicago Avenue Tuesday night.

Counterpoint: Change for African-Americans is about more than sheer will

People of color face overpowering challenges in this country.
John Rash
June 19, 2020
FILE -- John Bolton, then the national security adviser, watches as President Donald Trump hosts the Romanian president in the Oval Office, at the Whi

More Burr than Hamilton in Bolton's 'The Room Where It Happened'

The new book is unflattering to both Bolton and Trump.
Jim Pumarlo
June 19, 2020
The Minneapolis City skyline including City Hall seen from the back of the U.S. District Court. ] GLEN STUBBE • glen.stubbe@startribune.com Monday M

Minneapolis' sick leave rule is unhealthy for jobs

The ordinance has far-reaching consequences on state's businesses.
Stephen F. Befort
June 19, 2020
Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo listened in as Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and mayors from around the metro called for new legislation to

Counterpoint: In defense of arbitration

In deciding if recent criticism is accurate, it's important to look at the facts.
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