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February 20, 2018
Readers Write: Florida school shooting, Russian meddling
Responding is not all or nothing.
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February 19, 2018
Readers Write: Florida school shooting, Minnesota tax policy
This issue changes how I vote.
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February 19, 2018
Readers Write: Tim Pawlenty's governor-again potential, developments regarding Garrison Keillor allegations, toll roads, dogs everywhere
No, we had enough the first time.
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February 16, 2018
Readers Write: Duluth schools' decision on 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and 'Huck Finn,' continued responses to the Florida school shooting
Where Duluth has gone wrong.
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February 16, 2018
Readers Write: Florida school shooting
Have hunters had enough?
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February 15, 2018
Readers Write: Florida school shooting
What to do when "nothing" won't do.
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February 14, 2018
Readers Write: School shooting in Florida, HMOs, political leadership, the market economy on parking and pot, Shaun White at the Winter Olympics, Minnesota as Northwest, priorities
And which way the legislation?
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February 13, 2018
Readers Write: Contact sports and CTE, Jessie Diggins in the Winter Olympics, Trump and federal spending, early childhood education, the nation's gun laws, Morningside, the 'Northwest'
Tackle football safe? Really?
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February 13, 2018
Readers Write: 'Bold North,' marijuana dealers' deaths, Uptown development, rail safety, U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan, Trump's military parade, 'Violet Days' cartoon
'Midwest'? 'North'? Remembering when we were the 'Northwest.'
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February 11, 2018
Readers Write: Train safety, health care middlemen, Minnesota wolves and walleye, Duluth books
Keep the focus on passenger rail safety.
Letters
February 10, 2018
Readers Write: Maintaining Minnesota's 'Big Mo,' the Tet Offensive
An unwinnable arms race.
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February 9, 2018
Readers Write: St. Paul teachers strike, Gen. John Kelly and Rob Porter, marijuana gummies, development in Uptown, the stolen stadium seat
Please school leaders, lead.
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February 8, 2018
Readers Write: Marijuana gummies, Trump's military parade, 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' Peppermint Patty
Scapegoating seized THC edibles.
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February 7, 2018
Readers Write: Trump's military parade, precinct caucuses, Super Bowl and Eagles fans, "Peanuts" and science projects, kudos to the newspaper
Marching for 'Dear Leader'
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February 6, 2018
Readers Write: Applauding Trump's speech, Super Bowl and tourism, the 'redneck' to the rescue, former U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann
The freedom to clap or not to clap.
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February 5, 2018
Readers Write: Super Bowl in Minnesota, Tuesday's precinct caucuses, the GOP's FBI memo
OK, pat yourselves on the back.
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February 4, 2018
Readers Write: Our 'fake' society, immigration, Minnesota governor's race, size of government, pond hockey
On the surface, in the deep.
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February 3, 2018
Readers Write: Blue Earth, Ronald Reagan's ranch, conservation, Garrison Keillor, Amazon's zipped lips on employee-tracking
A response to a beating that is upside down.
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February 2, 2018
Readers Write: The Nunes memo, the FBI, the justice system, threats to global peace
Someone's not doing their job.
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February 2, 2018
Readers Write: State of the Union
President delivered a message of compromise.
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