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March 14, 2017
illustration by JUSTIN METZ, for the Star Tribune ORG XMIT: MIN1612011442483708

Readers Write (March 15): Urban vs. rural legislation, the health care debate, Surdyk's penalty

The 60 percent of Minnesotans who live in the metro area respond.
Letters
March 13, 2017
People enter The Surdyk's liquor store in the snow in Minneapolis on Sunday, March 12, 2017. The liquor store has gotten a head start on opening for b

Readers Write (March 14): Liquor sales, state-local pre-emption policies, Edina's smoking age proposal, U.S. attorney purge and Andrew Luger, climate change and water vapor, characterization of Betsy Hodges

Surdyk's defiance typifies the times.
Letters
March 10, 2017
iStockphoto.com "Antique illustration depicting the banks of Temperance River, U.S. state of Minnesota. Published in Picturesque America or the Land W

Readers Write (March 12): Fishing fees, teacher shortages, urban/rural divide and culture, Uber discounts and journalism, Trump and Ayn Rand

A Minnesota-Missouri comparison.
Letters
March 10, 2017
Sen. Al Franken hosts his annual hot-dish competition. ORG XMIT: MIN1703081434400161

Readers Write (March 13): Hot dish politics, hate groups, the Korean Peninsula, airport security, the justice system, congressional town halls, Target's troubles

Now, here was a competition I can savor.
Letters
March 10, 2017
Wood Lilly blooming at Hole in the Mountain Prairie near Lake Benton. ] Minnesota State of Wonders - Summer on the Prairie. BRIAN PETERSON • br

Readers Write (March 11): Mowing of roadside ditches, U Board of Regents selection process, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt

Whatever happened to stewardship?
Letters
March 9, 2017
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Readers Write (March 10): Edina's smoking age proposal, Affordable Care Act replacement, 'Stand Your Ground' gun laws

Edina is poised to act wisely.
Letters
March 8, 2017
A U.S. passport. A growing number of people whose official birth records show they were born in the United States are now being denied passports — t

Readers Write (March 9): Real ID, health care policy at the federal and state levels, President Trump's opponents, WikiLeaks

Legislators tell us what we're worth.
Letters
March 7, 2017
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, right, and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., w

Readers Write (March 8): Republican health care proposal, stadium seats, effective leadership, the things you see in the paper

This health plan already feels like a reach.
Letters
March 6, 2017
Michele Kelm-Helgen, the Chair of the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority, spoke to the media regarding their reaction to not being chosen as a venu

Readers Write (March 7): Vikings seats, the president's allegations of wire-tapping

The trouble surrounding the MSFA and Vikings seats just gets worse.
Letters
March 3, 2017
Jan and Art Larson walk through the courtyard while giving a tour of their downtown Minneapolis condo. ] LEILA NAVIDI ï leila.navidi@startribune.

Readers Write (March 4): Aging in place, light rail, contacts with Russians

And not just downtown, big city!
Letters
March 3, 2017
Officials will celebrate a ceremonial groundbreaking of 800 West Broadway, a new employment, education and healthy living facility in north Minneapoli

Readers Write (March 5): Accountability, labor rules, diversity and STEM fields, bike rentals and helmets

From that Dayton to this Dayton (to Trump).
Letters
March 3, 2017
ADVANCE FOR SATURDAY FEB 25 AND THEREAFTER - In a Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017 photo, one of more than 100 houseboats lining the shore of Latch Island sits

Readers Write (March 6): Boathouses as opposed to houseboats, Affordable Care Act, use of private aviation by colleges, Guthrie Theater and diversity

The right term makes all the difference.
Letters
March 2, 2017
Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Thursday, March 2, 2017. Sessions said he will

Readers Write (March 3): Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Trump's address to Congress and Democratic response, Lake Calhoun, J.C. Penney

It's not enough for Sessions to recuse himself.
Letters
March 1, 2017
U.S. President Donald J. Trump delivers his first address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017 at the Capitol in Washington, D.C.

Readers Write (March 2): Trump's address to Congress, Target's difficulties, state Rep. Ilhan Omar, Orchestra Hall and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski

This was a show of strategy, not principle.
Letters
February 28, 2017
Sunday Liquor bill passes the Senate 38-28. ] GLEN STUBBE ï glen.stubbe@startribune.com Monday February 27, 2017 Bill to repeal the ban on Sunday

Readers Write (March 1): Sunday liquor sales, defense spending, crime reporting, headline writing, protests, the Oscars and Mahershala Ali

Someone's interests are served. Whose? That's up for debate.
Letters
February 27, 2017
Thomas Perez, the former labor secretary, hugs Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota at the Democratic National CommitteeÕs winter meeting in Atlanta,

Readers Write (Feb. 28): DNC leadership, the Jewish and Muslim communities, wages, girls' basketball, cellphone distraction

In Ellison loss, a lesson unlearned.
Letters
February 26, 2017
The Macy's store in downtown Minneapolis.

Readers Write (Feb. 27): Downtown Minneapolis, wages, tax rates, school discipline, 'inclusiveness'

City residents need to be heard.
Letters
February 24, 2017
Rep. Ilhan Omar hosted a forum at Mixed Blood Theatre aimed at providing residents of her House district "the necessary tools to protect and organize

Readers Write (Feb. 26): State Rep. Ilhan Omar, freedom of the press, health insurance and MinnesotaCare

Getting no grief on marriage status because of her religion?
Letters
February 24, 2017
Conductor laureate Stanislaw Skrowaczewski on Friday led the first Minnesota Orchestra concert at Orchestra Hall in 20 months. ORG XMIT: MIN1402080007

Readers Write (Feb. 25): Orchestra Hall and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski; government spending and light rail, plus David Osmek; transgender policy; the Trump administration, private prisons and marijuana, and Sunday liquor sales

Rename Orchestra Hall after the maestro.
Letters
February 23, 2017
By 5:00 p.m. over one hundred people were in line at Sartell City Hall hoping to attend Tom Emmer's 7:00 p.m. town hall meeting in the City Council ro

Readers Write (Feb. 24): Congressional town halls, immigration policy, transgender policy, University of Minnesota Board of Regents

Well, Emmer's town hall in Sartell was a start.
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