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March 31, 2017
Conductor J.R. Long waked by the Northstar Commuter Rail at Target Field on Tuesday. ] CARLOS GONZALEZ ï cgonzalez@startribune.com , July 19, 201

Readers Write (April 1): Rail transit, profit vs. nonprofit services, prescription drugs, Lynne Rossetto Kasper

Rail transit is a need, not just a want.
Letters
March 30, 2017
David Banks/Star Tribune Kingís Highway.

Readers Write (March 31): Mottled King's Highway, Congress and privacy protections, public broadcasting beyond PBS, Minnesota Legislature and the environment, Chamber of Commerce on truck weights

A road unfit for travel.
Letters
March 29, 2017
Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) and Judge Neil Gorsuch share a laugh as they met on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 7, 2017. Confirmation hearings for Gor

Readers Write (March 30): Gorsuch nomination, Islam and education, cancellation of New Prague high school play, funding for public broadcasting, mailbox rules

Gorsuch doesn't deserve that Supreme Court seat.
Letters
March 28, 2017
iStockphoto.com Bible and Koran..

Readers Write (March 28): Religion and education, Destination Medical Center investment, air travel decorum

Proposal at Minnesota Legislature wades into troubling territory.
Letters
March 28, 2017
A Southwest Airline passenger lifts his luggage into the air while looking for a storage spot in the overhead compartments before a flight from Midway

Readers Write (March 29): Air travel, the Trump administration on Russia and climate change, cancellation of New Prague school play, vocational training, immigration and rights

Airplane boarding process is a misery because …
Letters
March 25, 2017
People walk in the skyway over Nicollet Mall in and out of Macy's in downtown Minneapolis. ] (Leila Navidi/Star Tribune) leila.navidi@startribune.com

Readers Write (March 25): Downtown Minneapolis, health care, electric vehicles, plastic bags

What might have been if the Dayton's influence had remained.
Letters
March 24, 2017
The line is wrapped all the way around the inside of the Surdyk's liquor store on Sunday. March 12, 2017. ] XAVIER WANG • xavier.wang@startribu

Readers Write (March 26): The rule of law, government accountability, ride-sharing, climate change, Minneapolis police

Holding Surdyk (and others) accountable for their breaches.
Letters
March 24, 2017
May 1983 Reading Riot: Laughs and learning go together when teachers like "The Electric Company"'s Rita Moreno and Morgan Freeman take over. The duo w

Readers Write (March 27): The all-purpose use of 'guys,' news coverage of women, Mount Sinai's legacy, Skyway Senior Center, State Capitol song

Wait — is this a trap?
Letters
March 23, 2017
Provided This 117-year-old farmhouse, once owned by Brenda Ueland, is ripe for teardown in the Linden Hills neighborhood of Minneapolis, but preservat

Readers Write (March 24): Brenda Ueland house, disparities in transportation funding, proposed electric-vehicle fee, the language of gender equality

Brenda Ueland house should be spared.
Letters
March 22, 2017
FBI Director James Comey and National Security Agency Director Adm. Michael Rogers testify before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

Readers Write (March 21): U.S. and Russia, urban violence, politics and the Supreme Court, the state of the Star Tribune

Exact impact of Russian hacking is elusive.
Letters
March 22, 2017
Illustration by Megan Dolezal

Readers Write (March 23): National Endowment for the Arts, proposed fee on electric vehicles, GOP opposition to light rail and gas tax

How NEA grants really work.
Letters
March 21, 2017
Participants in the "Day Without Immigrants," including members of Mexica Yolotl, a traditional Aztec group of Mexico-American dancers and drummers fr

Readers Write (March 22): Immigration enforcement, the Minnesota budget, transportation funding disparities, north Minneapolis, Hennepin County rainy-day fund, happiest places and health care, paranoia

The debate over moral relativism, exemplified.
Letters
March 17, 2017
President Donald Trump arrives to make remarks during a visit at the American Center for Mobility near Ypsilanti, Mich., March 15, 2017. (Stephen Crow

Readers Write (March 18): Trump and 'buy American,' legislative pay, Real ID, monarch habitat

Trump's words vs. his deeds.
Letters
March 17, 2017
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Readers Write (March 19): Shootings in north Minneapolis, Minneapolis mayor's race and columnist Jon Tevlin's comments about it

Do something! But what?
Letters
March 17, 2017
May 1983 Reading Riot: Laughs and learning go together when teachers like "The Electric Company"'s Rita Moreno and Morgan Freeman take over. The duo w

Readers Write (March 20): Use of 'you guys,' the Equal Rights Amendment, 'Stand Your Ground' laws

The all-purpose use of "guys," opposed.
Letters
March 16, 2017
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Readers Write (March 17): Legislative compensation, Vice President Mike Pence and health care, U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer's town hall, U.S. Rep. Steve King, roadside ditches, Minneapolis Super Bowl, MIA 'Monsters' exhibit

Expense reimbursement is not pay.
Letters
March 16, 2017
The Gonda Building. Mayo Clinic employs over 59,000 people, 33,000 at its Rochester, MN location and system-wide treats over 1.2 million patients per

Readers Write (March 16): Mayo Clinic and Medicare/Medicaid, the Equal Rights Amendment, U.S. Rep. Steve King, Surdyk's law-flouting, the seeking of Super Bowl volunteers

Mayo Clinic is out on limb, legally.
Letters
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.
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