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October 12, 2018
DO NOT USE WITHOUT CHECKING WITH DEB FIRST -- Republican candidate for governor of Minnesota, Hennepin County Commissioner Jeff Johnson. ] GLEN STUBBE

Readers Write: Gubernatorial candidate Jeff Johnson; climate concerns; tilling, soil quality and buffer strips;

What was missing from gubernatorial profile.
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October 12, 2018
GOP Candidate for Attorney General Doug Wardlow talked with voters at the Eveleth, MN gun show. ] GLEN STUBBE ï glen.stubbe@startribune.com Satur

Readers Write: Attorney general candidates Doug Wardlow and Keith Ellison

'Independent voice' argument can now be dismissed.
Letters
October 12, 2018
A mother loon and her two babies, cruised the waters of Lake Elora in St. Louis County shortly after they hatched and left their nest. Many loons in N

Readers Write: Loon protection, young climate activists, Line 3 and the oil industry, hunger, governor's race and Somalis

We'll do our part, too.
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October 11, 2018
Mayor Jacob Frey announced the first "Know-Your-ICE-Rights" placards that will be placed in MPD squad cars with Minneapolis City Attorney Susan Segal,

Readers Write: 'Right to remain silent' placard in police cars, nontraditional casting in 'Mary Poppins' theater performance, the lack of a political middle, the waste of attack ads

Debating placards in police cars.
Letters
October 10, 2018

Readers Write: Campaign ads and the general state of politics, generosity and social problems, public safety in the Twin Cities

Don't you political types realize you're alienating all of us?
Letters
October 9, 2018
A scene from the 1936 documentary "The Plow That Broke the Plains." (Screen grab)

Readers Write: People, the climate and the environment; University of Minnesota president's salary; generosity, immigration and homeless encampments; Twin Cities as experienced by visitors

Learning and forgetting.
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October 5, 2018
Women from the left Sarah Ortega, Florkime Payne, Melody Walton, Andrea Gram and Brooke Morath. ] RENEE JONES SCHNEIDER • renee.jones@startribu

Readers write: Sexual assault, Minneapolis 2040, Enbridge Line 3, Paul Molitor

Blame our culture, not police training
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October 5, 2018
Former FBI special agent Steve Gilkerson, at podium, took questions from media members during a press conference at the Government Center to address S

Readers write: The Jacob Wetterling case, teachers unions, U leadership, the Legislature, campus politics, Paul Molitor, kudos

Sheriff's criticism was legitimate, is necessary to lead to improvements.
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October 5, 2018
This June 10, 2017 photo provided by Operation Resolute Support, U.S. Soldiers with Task Force Iron maneuver an M-777 howitzer, so it can be towed int

Readers write: Veterans suicide, Trump rally, Kavanaugh nomination, a Minnesota big-idea tour

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October 4, 2018
Metro Transit police wake a woman who was sleeping across two seats at night on a light-rail train. ] ANTHONY SOUFFLE • anthony.souffle@startri

Readers write: Transit 'sleepers,' the Kavanaugh nomination, men and women — again, helping veterans, Steve Sack cartoon

There's a better way to address the plight of homeless riders.
Letters
October 3, 2018
President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Landers Center Arena, Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018, in Southaven, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Sol

Readers write: Trump, Ford and Kavanaugh; Trump's taxes; immigration policy; men and women; Paul Molitor

President's mocking of Blasey Ford gets cheers, laughter? That's "deplorable," indeed.
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October 2, 2018
iStock Silhouette vector illustration of a large group of students on campus.

Readers Write: Bias on campus, Ellison vs. Wardlow, critiquing the critic, Brett Kavanaugh

Summary of one line goes here and right here.
Letters
October 1, 2018
iStock Group of people screaming in megaphones at scared guy.

Readers write: Attack ads, Kavanaugh hearings, Amy Klobuchar, fatal crash, Nicollet Mall, Joe Mauer

Enough trashing of your opponent; tell us about YOU.
Letters
September 28, 2018
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018. (Erin S

Readers Write: The Ford-Kavanaugh hearings

You'd be that angry, too.
Letters
September 28, 2018
April 12, 1981 Sunday services at Mount Olivet Lutheran Church are well-attended. March 15, 1981 Kent Kobersteen, Minneapolis Star Tribune ORG XMIT: M

Readers Write: How to fill the churches, reconciling reason and faith

Through faith alone …
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September 28, 2018
Rep. Keith Ellison addresses his campaign volunteers and supporters before sending them off on a door knocking campaign. ] ALEX KORMANN • alex.

Readers Write: Keith Ellison, protection of grizzly bears, opioids for chronic pain

A calculated move.
Letters
September 27, 2018
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018. (Erin S

Readers Write: Kavanaugh-Ford hearings

The right temperament for the court?
Letters
September 26, 2018
President Donald Trump addresses the U.N. General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York on Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018. (Dave Sanders/The New York Tim

Readers Write: President Donald Trump at the United Nations, Brett Kavanaugh, school budgets, single-parent households

American solo act is perilous.
Letters
September 25, 2018
Sexual assault survivors along with their supporters at the #MeToo Survivors March against sexual abuse Sunday, Nov. 12, 2017 in Los Angeles, Calif. A

Readers Write: Allegations and the #MeToo movement, gubernatorial candidate Jeff Johnson's tax-cut plans

We must strike a balance.
Letters
September 24, 2018
Those who identified only as extended members of the family of Sheryl and Kenneth Carpentier, two of the victims, hugged after putting up balloons and

Readers Write: Police chase and crash, homeless encampment, passenger rail between Twin Cities and Chicago, U.S. affairs with China and Russia, Jeff Johnson and tax cuts

State Patrol is not to blame.
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