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March 12, 2019
FILE -- A scooter on the sidewalk in downtown San Francisco, April 16, 2018. Doctors and public health workers in San Francisco are preparing to track

Readers Write: Electric scooters and safety, a letter from Walter Mondale regarding Ilhan Omar, renaming buildings at the U, Olympian's death

There's danger — be responsible.
Letters
March 11, 2019
Minnesota's US Senator-elect Paul Wellstone (left), with wife Sheila (right), holds a news conference in front of the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Wa

Readers Write: Ilhan Omar and the example of Paul Wellstone, renaming buildings at the U, how whites respond to threats to the social order, national debt, Paul Manafort's sentence, eggs and cholesterol

The example of Paul Wellstone.
Letters
March 10, 2019
Quinn Nystrom, a diabetes activist, prepared 150 pennants for a diabetes rally to be held in the State Capitol Tuesday, March 5, at noon. ] GLEN STUBB

Readers Write: Prescription drug 'roulette,' 'menopause belly,' 'Dying of Whiteness' book review, safety of anesthesia, tax avoidance and fairness, politics and natural resources

No thrill for patients.
Letters
March 8, 2019
People try to cross 3rd Ave. in Anoka, Minn., Wednesday morning, Feb. 20, 2019, in the snow. Forecasters are warning residents in parts of Minnesota a

Readers Write: Another snowstorm, the U.S. House resolution against hate, animal fats in the diet, reasons for drive-up shopping

But not "The Long Winter."
Letters
March 8, 2019
Chris Voelz in 2002, when she was women's athletic director at the University of Minnesota.

Readers Write: Renaming buildings at the U, Gov. Tim Walz's 2050 clean-energy plan

"Chris Voelz" would be a great name to put on the student union.
Letters
March 7, 2019
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) walks to a vote surrounded by reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 5, 2019. Democratic leaders are planning to put

Readers Write: The Omar 'uproar,' 'Medicare for All,' money for Final Four and money for schools

A cultural division widens.
Letters
March 6, 2019
Tristan Conway brought an order from the Apple Valley Target store to the new drive up outside the store. (Glen Stubbe/Minneapolis Star Tribune/TNS) O

Readers Write: Shiftless shopping, U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, the value of college, the American hemisphere

An energy-expenditure problem.
Letters
March 5, 2019
Governor Tim Walz and Lieutenant Governor Flanagan held a press conference to announce major energy and climate policy initiatives. ] GLEN STUBBE &#x2

Readers Write: Walz's clean-energy initiatives, U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar's conflicts, renaming buildings at the U, the goal of editorials

Finally, we're on our way.
Letters
March 4, 2019
Rep. Ilhan Omar spoke to attendees of a Minneapolis immigration round table discussion in January.

Readers Write: U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Born-Alive Survivors Protection Act, privately run prisons

Learn the "why" of Israel.
Letters
March 1, 2019
The University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler announced to the media that he is leaving effective July 2019, during a press conference in the MacNa

Readers Write: Renaming buildings at the U, redistricting policy, marijuana legalization, gun laws, smoking while riding transit

You'll hate me for saying this, but …
Letters
March 1, 2019
Healthy low carbs products. Ketogenic diet concept. Top view

Readers Write: 'Risk-reversal diet,' Walz budget, police officers and arbitration

Trust the received wisdom instead.
Letters
March 1, 2019
Rendering by Bloomington staffers, using Google Earth, showing how the proposed Burnsville landfill extension might look from Xerxes Avenue in Bloomin

Readers Write: Burnsville landfill height proposal, AmeriCorps VISTA and Senior Corps programs, beating of suspect in Ramsey County, Star Tribune Editorial Board's style

A history of over-the-top negligence.
Letters
February 28, 2019
Landscape featuring the skyline from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Readers Write: Winnipeg responds, the Michael Cohen hearings, Minnesota Business Partnership and the state budget, labeling the left

To our balmy neighbours to the south.
Letters
February 27, 2019
Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, leaves Capitol Hill after testifying before the House Oversight and Reform Committee i

Readers Write: Michael Cohen's testimony, 'Born-Alive' abortion bill, gun laws, fentanyl use

Your interpretation here.
Letters
February 26, 2019
Per MNDOT, photo shows cars stuck in the snow on Hwy 14 in southeast Minnesota Sunday morning. credit: MNDOT 2/24/19

Readers Write: Winter stress, gun laws, Trump and Kim Jong Un, U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar's workplace manner, Driver and Vehicle Services, royals and reality

To our neighbors across the border.
Letters
February 25, 2019
Elon Musk, chairman and CEO at Tesla and chairman of SpaceX, inhales what he said was marijuana on a live YouTube webcast Thursday night. (Screenshot/

Readers Write: Marijuana legalization, state Rep. Cal Bahr's gun law comment, 'red flag' laws, gas tax, U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar's office demeanor

Slouching toward societal torpor.
Letters
February 22, 2019
FILE - In this Aug. 14, 1945 file photo provided by the U.S. Navy, a sailor and a woman kiss in New York's Times Square, as people celebrate the end o

Readers Write: That iconic V-J Day kiss, problems with mail service, scrutiny of elder care, confusing Driver and Vehicle Services, Jon Bream review of Elton John concert

Don't discount the spirit of the moment.
Letters
February 22, 2019
A rendering of the proposed water park beside the Mall of America.

Readers Write: Development incentives, including those at the Mall of America; socialism and capitalism; Minnesotans and the presidency

Private wealth's playground.
Letters
February 22, 2019
The White House is reflected in a puddle from the melting snow on Thursday, February 21, 2019 in Washington, D.C. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS)

Readers Write: Picking a president

What we need.
Letters
February 21, 2019
Inside Black Metal Mailbox Looking Out Isolated on White Background.

Readers Write: Mail service, the future of Hennepin Healthcare and HCMC, fish hatcheries, 'conversion therapy,' immigration and assimilation, sports and mediocrity, defining 'milk,' dog walking at Rosedale

Delivery problems go beyond weather.
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