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August 2, 2019
Split Rock Lighthouse is seen from the deck of a dive boat on Lake Superior. The PolyMet mine would sit in the Lake Superior watershed, meaning that p

Readers Write: PolyMet mine, state pensions, Minneapolis parking, Canadian drugs, driving laws, energy

End silence on mining impacts.
Letters
August 1, 2019
Jane Strauss, left, and Tracy Armstrong looked through a voter printout as they helped test Minneapolis' electronic voting system Tuesday. ] ANTHONY S

Readers Write: Minnesota Republicans and election security, importing Canadian drugs, debate access, new driving laws

Minnesota Republicans make an about-face turn on election security.
Letters
July 31, 2019
Saying the Pledge of Allegiance are some of the twelve new Minneapolis Police Department Sergeants. ] GLEN STUBBE • glen.stubbe@startribune.com

Readers Write: Delayed 911 responses, Democratic presidential candidates, Medicare for All, representative democracy

Minneapolis' slow 911 response rate is jaw-dropping.
Letters
July 30, 2019
Members of the World Cup-winning U.S. women’s national soccer team at City Hall after their celebratory parade in New York, July 10, 2019. The

Readers Write: U.S. women's soccer at Allianz Field, Metro Transit, food stamps, 'love or leave' America

Prices to see the women's team play contrast their values of representation and accessibility.
Letters
July 29, 2019
A portion of Xcel Energy's Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant is pictured Thursday, July 18, 2019. (Dave Schwarz/The St. Cloud Times via AP)

Readers Write: Nuclear energy, St. Andrew's Church building, Minnehaha Parkway, guns, God, President Donald Trump

Nuclear power alone won't save us.
Letters
July 27, 2019
A clipping from the center spread of the Star Tribune’s 28th annual report on the 50 highest-paid CEOs on Minnesota-based public companies, covering

Readers Write: CEO compensation and composition, popping personal bubbles, income inequality

Gender, diversity imbalances, too.
Letters
July 26, 2019
FILE - This Monday, June 17, 2019, file photo, shows 5-mg pills of Oxycodone. Two Ohio counties are asking a judge to find that drugmakers and distrib

Readers Write: Drug regulation, Mueller's testimony, PolyMet mine, Democratic debates

The government must regulate drugs — companies won't.
Letters
July 26, 2019
Campaign signs of Democratic presidential hopefuls at the South Carolina Democrats’ state convention in Columbia, S.C., June 22, 2019. Over the

Readers Write: Presidential ideas, Puerto Rico, Mueller's testimony, the Twins

Focus on ideas, not distractions, in presidential race.
Letters
July 25, 2019
Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller are photographed before the start of a House Intelligence Committee hearing in Washington on Wednesday, July 24,

Readers Write: Mueller's testimony, Rep. Ilhan Omar, American society

Shout Mueller's points from the rooftops.
Letters
July 24, 2019
President Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Greenville, N.C., July 17, 2019. Republicans on Thursday tried to distance themselves from the “sen

Readers Write: Trump's fear, border concentration camps, foul balls, Equifax data, Boundary Waters permits

Trump chooses fear, but we don't have to.
Letters
July 23, 2019
Former U.S. Sen. Al Franken smiled as his successor U.S. Sen. Tina Smith spoke fondly of him during Walter Mondale's birthday program Saturday night.

Readers Write: Al Franken, the political climate, plastic straws

Representing us is a privilege.
Letters
July 22, 2019
The Inspector General at the Department of Homeland Security observed overcrowding of families on June 10 at a detention center in McAllen, Texas. (Cr

Readers Write: Use of the phrase 'concentration camp,' loving or leaving America, safety netting at baseball stadiums

"Concentration camp" is correct.
Letters
July 19, 2019
U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar speaks to supporters after arriving home, at Minneapolis' Saint Paul International Airport, Thursday, July 18, 2019, in Minnesota

Readers Write: 'Go home,' Trump and Epstein's relationship, advice for the Democrats, criticism vs. racism

Let's 'go home' to a better America.
Letters
July 19, 2019
Neil Armstrong took this photo of Buzz Aldrin on the moon with the American flag in 1969 during the Apollo 11 mission. (Neil Armstrong/Nasa/TNS) ORG X

Readers Write: The moon landing, quality control, driver testing, Minnesota's political preferences

In no way was the moonshot easy.
Letters
July 19, 2019
Commuters passed by ongoing road construction on I-35W during the evening rush hour Friday. ] ANTHONY SOUFFLE • anthony.souffle@startribune.com

Readers Write: Driving and old age, using the term 'concentration camps,' racism, tensions with Iran

Emphasize transit, not cars.
Letters
July 18, 2019
Editorial: What happens when the money runs short for Social Security and Medicare? (George Sheldon/Dreamstime/TNS) ORG XMIT: 1308148

Readers Write: Capitalism, the 'Squad,' housing

Right diagnosis, wrong prescription.
Letters
July 17, 2019
President Donald Trump holds up a photo of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) during a meeting at the White House in Washington on Tuesday, July 16, 2019. Trum

Readers Write: Artificiality of race, immigrants' contributions, Noor's appeal, the Republican Party

Don't let artificial categories divide us.
Letters
July 16, 2019
A teacher uses the Pledge of Allegiance in a reading class the U.S. government's newest holding center for migrant children in Carrizo Springs, Texas,

Readers Write: St. Louis Park and the pledge, Trump's racist tweets, 3M and the environment

Democracy sans circus, please.
Letters
July 15, 2019
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., left, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., center, and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., right, attend a House Oversight C

Readers Write: Trump's racism, Ilhan Omar, Pledge of Allegiance, Epstein's donations

Reject Trump's racism.
Letters
July 13, 2019
Readers Write: Cars, cows and the climate; immigrants and assimilation of values

Readers Write: Cars, cows and the climate; immigrants and assimilation of values

We're not buying into a July 7 commentary writer's apologia.
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