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March 26, 2019
Minnesota Management and Budget Commissioner Myron Frans, right, and Gov. Tim Walz, left, brief reporters about the governor's updated budget proposal

Readers Write: Transportation costs, President Trump post-Mueller, beer sales

By the numbers, which vary.
Letters
March 25, 2019
President Donald Trump give two thumbs up to guests after stepping off Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Sunday, March 24, 2019, in Was

Readers Write: The Mueller report summary. Plus: I didn't get what I ordered

The media must answer for its actions.
Letters
March 22, 2019
Rep. Ilhan Omar listened as a reporter asked about discussing other topics given her limited press availability during a press conference on the impac

Readers Write: U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, free speech on campus, homelessness, renewable energy, Liberian health care workers, winter as a declarable disaster

A congresswoman of substance.
Letters
March 22, 2019
The Minnesota State Capitol was bathed in warm evening light as the sun went down on the first day of the legislative session. ] GLEN STUBBE ¥ gl

Readers Write: Mental health parity, college admissions, U.S. House Democrats

A long time coming in Minnesota.
Letters
March 22, 2019
The Sunrise Inn, Burgers, fries and beer for lunch. _Not so long ago, there were 3.2 bars on many a corner in Minneapolis and in pockets of St. Paul,

Readers Write: 3.2 beer, Legislature-watching, left-lane driving, legalizing marijuana, Kaler's tenure at the U, renaming things (like St. Paul), multiple sclerosis frequency, government doing good

And then there was one …
Letters
March 21, 2019
At dusk, a resident of the Hiawatha homeless encampment uses a flashlight to light the dark as she put away her bike before heading into her tent for

Readers Write: Homelessness, Metro Transit, Minneapolis vision, St. Paul schools, Trump on McCain, New Zealand vs. U.S. on gun laws

Because renting here is beyond reach.
Letters
March 20, 2019
FILE - In this May 8, 2015, file photo, gas station attendant Carlos Macar pumps gas in Andover, Mass. Oil prices have plummeted over the last year, a

Readers Write: Gas tax, public safety (cellphones vs. guns), oil trains, consumer product safety, help for firefighters

The most we can absorb.
Letters
March 19, 2019
As part of her job with Urban Animal Kingdom, Stephanie Blooflat walked Toby (right) and Tegan the lurcher dogs along a partially iced over sidewalk i

Readers Write: The climate, New Zealand massacre, U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, daylight saving time

Our climate in a microcosm
Letters
March 19, 2019
Students light candles as they gather for a vigil to commemorate victims of Friday's shooting, outside the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand

Readers Write: New Zealand massacre, Israel and Palestine, packing the U.S. Supreme Court, people doing good things

Don't overcomplicate the assigning of blame.
Letters
March 15, 2019
BRIAN PETERSON ¥Êbrian.peterson@startribune.com Isle Royale National Park, 9/16/2009 ] Isle Royale is also home to the worldÕs longest

Readers Write: Wolves in Minnesota, gun laws, New Zealand mosque massacre, college admissions and costs

Protect, don't hunt, wolves in Minnesota.
Letters
March 15, 2019
Workers make sure that each section of the replacement Line 3 that is joined passes mustard. Enbridge already has started building the 14-mile stretch

Readers Write: Enbridge Line 3 replacement, excluding inflation from state spending forecasts, gender bias in medical research and at VA centers

The Star Tribune Editorial Board was incoherent on risks.
Letters
March 15, 2019
Electric Time Co. employee Walter Rodriguez cleans the face of an 84-inch Wegman clock at the plant in Medfield, Mass. Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008. Daylig

Readers Write: Daylight saving time, speed limits and the left lane, U.S. foreign aid, renaming things (like St. Paul!)

Please, no wrench in the works.
Letters
March 14, 2019
Federal prosecutors have charged 50 people in a sprawling, multimillion-dollar college admissions scam in which wealthy parents are accused of bribing

Readers Write: College admissions scandal, race and reparations, Israel and Palestine, health care reinsurance in Minnesota, foggy weather, foggy grammar

The good news about college admissions. Also the bad, bad, bad.
Letters
March 13, 2019
This combination of images shows college campuses, clockwise from top left, Georgetown University, Stanford University, Yale University, and Universit

Readers Write: College admissions scandal, race and reparations and renaming, Israel and Palestine, electronic scooters

What's a parent to do now?
Letters
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.
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