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June 21, 2018
A group of immigrants from Honduras and Guatemala seeking asylum receive help the bus station after they were processed and released by U.S. Customs a

Readers Write: Immigration, public-sector labor unions

Sen. Tina Smith's approach, debated.
Letters
June 20, 2018
President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media after signing an executive order to end family separations at the border, during an event in the

Readers Write: Immigration and families, mining and environmental protection, suicide risks and farmers

An improvement, but not enough.
Letters
June 19, 2018
Immigrant children play outside a former Job Corps site that now houses them, Monday, June 18, 2018, in Homestead, Fla. It is not known if the childre

Readers Write: Child separations, Iran and nuclear weapons, U.S. Sen. Tina Smith and mining

Experts, speak loudly.
Letters
June 18, 2018
President Donald Trump, with Vice President Mike Pence nearby, speaks during a meeting of the National Space Council in the East Room of the White Hou

Readers Write: Child separations at the border, urban density

Child separations shouldn't go on a moment longer.
Letters
June 15, 2018
iStock Blackboard with the chemical formula of Ketamine

Readers Write: Ketamine use on suspects, child separation and immigration, disabled workers, skyscraper raccoon

EMS supervisor's response? Wow.
Letters
June 15, 2018
Star Tribune illustration

Readers Write: 'Toward a new democracy,' the Koch brothers

What now for democracy?
Letters
June 15, 2018
Photo provided by Mary Van Der Werf

Readers Write: Mail carriers and community, 'Factfulness,' Minneapolis 2040 Plan, suicide rates, remembering Ron Meshbesher

"Their mailman," their community.
Letters
June 14, 2018
PHOTO COURTESY BEN JOHNSON. Scores of onlookers rooted on the raccoon as it moved next door to the UBS Tower and scaled the concrete skyscraper, makin

Readers Write: Skyscraper-climbing raccoon, 'Trump-haters,' community foundations, melting of Antarctic ice shelves, drinking and biking

Urbanites, meet nature.
Letters
June 13, 2018
The Powerball jackpot is rolling over again and now stands at an estimated $750 million.

Readers Write: Powerball odds, immigration, U.S.-North Korea summit, press criticism

Lottery odds like lightning strikes? If only.
Letters
June 12, 2018
U.S. President Donald Trump holds up the document that he and North Korea leader Kim Jong Un just signed at the Capella resort on Sentosa Island Tuesd

Readers Write: U.S.-North Korea summit, international trade, urban density, state guardianship of children, Nicollet Mall trees

Appeasement. Ring a bell?
Letters
June 11, 2018
President Donald Trump boards Air Force One as he departs the G-7 summit meeting for Singapore, at Canadian Forces Base Bagotville in Quebec, Canada,

Readers Write: Trump and the G-7, urban density, 'belittling' obituary, Miss America's erstwhile swimsuit competition and men's intrigue

An open letter to world leaders.
Letters
June 8, 2018

Readers Write: Mental health and suicide, Minneapolis policy on marijuana arrests, wolves and Isle Royale

Our protections are weakening.
Letters
June 8, 2018
FILE - In this July 15, 2016 file photo, a man cycles alongside taxi drivers near the Capitol building in Havana, Cuba. A rare poll of Cuban public op

Readers Write: Cuba, the Trump administration, Miss America pageant

A clearer status report.
Letters
June 8, 2018
Pedestrians made their way along Nicollet Mall where the trees on the newly redesigned area are dying en masse, Wednesday, June 6, 2018 in Minneapolis

Readers Write: Nicollet Mall trees, community foundations, religious 'nones,' usable discards

Planting on a prayer?
Letters
June 7, 2018
U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen answered questions at a town hall meeting in Hamel, MN. ] GLEN STUBBE * gstubbe@startribune.com Wednesday, May 30, 2018 -- With

Readers Write: Congressional town halls, Minnesota party politics, urban development, garbology

Paulsen's town hall, reconsidered.
Letters
June 6, 2018
Attorney General Lori Swanson shakes hands with running mate Rick Nolan as they answered questions from the press about the decision to run for the go

Readers Write: DFL Party politics, immigration and child separation, bike lanes and freeway projects, Weisman Art Museum and Frank Gehry, leaf blowers

Primaries are where (more of) it's at.
Letters
June 5, 2018
Gubernatorial candidate Erin Murphy speaks to the convention after she secured the party endorsement during the DFL State Convention Saturday, June 2,

Readers Write: The DFL Party, immigrant children, trade and tariffs, Southwest light rail, Samantha Bee and Roseanne Barr, littering

Masters of self-sabotage.
Letters
June 4, 2018
Samantha Bee, host of "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee," poses at an Emmy For Your Consideration screening of the television talk show at the Writers G

Readers Write: Samantha Bee, President Donald Trump and executive power, standards for the 2018 election, lingering need for tax conformity in Minnesota, leaf blowers

The better side would take the high road.
Letters
June 1, 2018
Childhood clergy abuse survivor Marie Mielke gestured while speaking about her abuse and the settlement reached between abuse survivors and the Archdi

Readers Write: Clergy sex-abuse settlement, Super Bowl economics, Southwest light rail, Samantha Bee and Roseanne Barr, assisted dying

The power to create possibility.
Letters
June 1, 2018
FILE - In this March 23, 2018, file photo, Roseanne Barr arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of "Roseanne" on Friday in Burbank, Calif. Barr has apolo

Readers Write: 'Roseanne,' tariffs and Minnesota's soybean farmers, the Jewish lobby, people behaving well

Should've let the viewers decide on "Roseanne."
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