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March 3, 2020
In this Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019 photo a woman drives an electric scooter on a square in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany. (AP Photo/Mich

Readers Write: Transit options, coronavirus, Minneapolis parks, priests and primary voting, Trump's salary

We can't scooter through Minnesota winters.
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March 2, 2020
Archbishop Bernard Hebda speaks to the media during a news conference on May 31, 2018, in St. Paul, Minn. Hebda is asking priests in Minnesota to forg

Readers Write: Archbishop's request for clergy not to vote, 2020 presidential race, coronavirus, taxing Social Security

Voting is a constitutional right.
Letters
March 2, 2020
The smiley-faced water tower in Freeport, Minn., has been a landmark on Interstate 94 for more than 50 years. Now its future is in doubt.

Readers Write: Saving Freeport's smiling water tower, Super Tuesday decisions, MPS district plan, coronavirus

Preservation effort is underway.
Letters
February 28, 2020
FILE - This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SA

Readers Write: Coronavirus, gender roles in housework, gun 'sanctuaries'

To fight coronavirus, we need funding.
Letters
February 28, 2020
Agwa Nywesh celebrated in the student section after making a last-second basket to win Monday night's game against Mayo. He scored 30 points while wea

Readers Write: The Austin community, 'Our barter with Big Tech,' Vikings stadium funding, sexual harassment, courts and ideology

Austin's example makes Minnesota proud.
Letters
February 27, 2020
FILE - In this March 1, 2016 file photo, Republicans register in their precinct as they caucus at Bloomington Jefferson High School in Bloomington, Mi

Readers Write: Minnesota caucuses, primaries, Presidential Medal of Freedom, historic homes, statewide poll, Trump support

Make my 10th caucus my last.
Letters
February 26, 2020
Fall Lake, near Winton, Minn., part of the Boundary Waters, a vast landscape of federally protected lakes and forests along the border with Canada, Ap

Readers Write: Minnesotans' views, Myon Burrell case, Bernie Sanders and the Castro regime

Look at the numbers: Minnesotans say no on mines.
Letters
February 25, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during First in the South Dinner, Monday, Feb. 24, 2020, in Charleston, S.C. (AP

Readers Write: Bernie Sanders, pedestrian safety, Minneapolis school redistricting, Minnesota poll, owls

This socialism thing just won't work.
Letters
February 24, 2020
Electric car sign, charging station, green sign painted on street. Electric vehicle sign with car and plug, uploading place.

Readers Write: Electric vehicles, sustainable farming, Bloomberg's nondisclosure agreements

Farewell to smog. For good.
Letters
February 21, 2020
The Theodore Wirth Home and Administrative Building sat among a snowy landscape Thursday at Lyndale Farmstead Park. ] ANTHONY SOUFFLE • anthony

Readers Write: Minneapolis Park Board, tax surplus, Social Security, congressional term limits, gun sanctuaries

Where has the Park Board gone?
Letters
February 21, 2020
Readers Write: Twin Cities housing, Minneapolis schools plan, Electoral College's origin, Winona and Winona, election security risks

Readers Write: Twin Cities housing, Minneapolis schools plan, Electoral College's origin, Winona and Winona, election security risks

One gap in housing analysis? The 'missing middle.'
Letters
February 21, 2020
Oxycodone-acetaminophen pills, also known as Percocet. Mallinckrodt was one of the highest-volume opioid producers in the U.S. at the height of the na

Readers Write: Opioid crisis, Trump and Christians, national debt, green energy

Cut opioid addiction, but don't overreach.
Letters
February 20, 2020
Candidates during the Democratic presidential debate at the Paris Theater in Las Vegas, on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020. The Democratic presidential candi

Readers Write: Amy Klobuchar and the Democratic debate, historical artifacts

With a chance to explain, they squabbled instead.
Letters
February 19, 2020
Senator Mary Kiffmeyer, R-Big Lake. ] GLEN STUBBE • glen.stubbe@startribune.com Tuesday, October 29, 2019 Legislative Auditor James Nobles rele

Readers Write: Minnesota election security, Donald Trump, education amendment, Minneapolis schools, socialism

Minnesota Republicans have a selective zeal for election security.
Letters
February 18, 2020
Minnesota State House representatives stood for the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of the legislative session Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020 at the State C

Readers Write: Twin Cities crime (and perceptions thereof), Michael Bloomberg, rental evictions, socialism

If the city feels unsafe, it is unsafe.
Letters
February 17, 2020
iStock A gavel rests on its sounding block with a several law books and a justice scale out of focus in the background.

Readers Write: Rule of law, freedom of the press, Minneapolis parking, Houston Astros

The law applies to all ... almost.
Letters
February 14, 2020
This subway ride in Tokyo was not, by all indications, plagued by public safety disruptions.

Readers Write: Public safety on transit, Trump vs. Democrats, legislative priorities

My solution: Law and order
Letters
February 14, 2020
MANCHESTER, NH - FEBRUARY 10: Supporters cheer as U.S. President Donald Trump arrives for a "Keep America Great" rally at Southern New Hampshire Unive

Readers Write: 2020 election, homelessness, Houston Astros, door-knocking, nature

Democrats, stick to the strategy.
Letters
February 14, 2020
President Donald Trump addresses a campaign rally at the SNHU Arena in Manchester, N.H., Feb 10, 2020. Like an assignment editor at a tabloid newspape

Readers Write: The drama of President Donald Trump, proposed education amendment

With Trump as president, the drama never ends.
Letters
February 13, 2020
Steam rises up over a school bus lot on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020, in Des Moines, Iowa. Temperatures Thursday morning dropped to minus 33 degrees with t

Readers Write: Redistricting, education amendment, free transit, campaigning, impeachment

Kids can handle new schools. Can we?
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