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August 9, 2019
China's President Xi Jinping attends a meeting with North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Friday, Dec.

Readers Write: The U.S. and China, public employee retirement funds, climate and public health, police-involved killings and media spin, Minneapolis' drive-through ban

People living under a totalitarian regime can freely inform us of their wishes? Huh.
Letters
August 9, 2019
FILE -- Students march to the Capitol in support of gun control legislation, in Washington, March 14, 2019. State laws that let judges take guns away

Readers Write: Gun violence, the state of politics, immigration raids

Lawmakers, act on guns or we'll vote you out­.
Letters
August 8, 2019
Gov. Tim Walz, flanked by his wife, Gwen, right, and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, speaks Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019, during a rally against gun violence at t

Readers Write: Gun control, U.S.-China trade war, Amy Klobuchar, protecting fresh water

Restrict magazine capacity.
Letters
August 7, 2019
The PolyMet mine in Hoyt Lakes, Minn. ] GLEN STUBBE • glen.stubbe@startribune.com Saturday, October 6, 2018 EDS, FOR ANY APPROPRIATE USE

Readers Write: PolyMet mine, reducing gun violence, Rep. Ilhan Omar, hobos, lakeside pavilion

PolyMet pits profit against drinking water.
Letters
August 6, 2019
People crowd around a makeshift memorial near the site of a mass shooting over the weekend at a shopping complex, Monday, Aug. 5, 2019, in El Paso, Te

Readers Write: Mass shootings, clean energy, HealthPartners and St. Paul schools

A half-staff flag is not a shield against future gun violence.
Letters
August 5, 2019
Bodies are removed from at the scene of a mass shooting, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019, in Dayton, Ohio. Several people in Ohio have been killed in the second

Readers Write: Guns and the mass shootings in Ohio and Texas

We chose guns over life. Again.
Letters
August 2, 2019
At the Midtown Farmer's Market, local healthful grown cucumbers and garlic are available for community member to buy with SNAP benefits (formerly know

Readers Write: SNAP benefits abuse, presidential debates, the Twins, the environment

A few abuse SNAP. So what?
Letters
August 2, 2019
Readers Write: Minnesota's urban-rural divide, debts and deficits

Readers Write: Minnesota's urban-rural divide, debts and deficits

Professor's spotlight is stuck.
Letters
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.
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