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May 2, 2020
American President with a face mask against CoV Corona Virus infection.

Readers Write: 'A month into mass quarantine — what now?' Plus: COVID-19 models

Numbers vs. people.
Letters
May 1, 2020
Supporters of long term care facilities and of Saint Therese New Hope came out to support Saint Therese workers coming and going during the afternoon

Readers Write: How are you coping?

What helps: A sweet treat and a friend.
Letters
April 30, 2020
A boy wears a protective face mask with a Spiderman motif as a measure to help curb the spread of the new coronavirus, in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday,

Readers Write: Face masks, food supply, meat, health care capacity, front-line workers

Cover up or stay out.
Letters
April 29, 2020
A view down Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, April 5, 2020. Faster buses. Plentiful parking. Cleaner air. A shift in habits offers a glimpse of what the cit

Readers Write: Fossil fuels, Pence's Mayo visit, assisted-living, Trump, global cease-fire

As the virus kills, cleaner air saves.
Letters
April 28, 2020
A pedestrian wearing a mask during the coronavirus outbreak walks by a mural of a U.S. flag painted on the side of the Uptown VFW on Tuesday, April 21

Readers Write: Face masks, opioid epidemic, social distancing, Tara Reade, Trump

It's time for businesses to mask up or close.
Letters
April 27, 2020
The University of Minnesota was mostly deserted Tuesday afternoon, April 21, 2020, in Minneapolis, as the university announced it will freeze tuition

Readers Write: Tuition freezes, distance learning, environmental standards, DACA, tennis, coloring

Freeze the price of college.
Letters
April 24, 2020
FILE - A funeral home in Piacenza, Italy, is full of coffins, March 25, 2020, due to the high number of deaths from the coronavirus. As the infection

Readers Write: COVID-19 fatalities, insulin, pandemic planning, Lysol, sports salaries

Virus deaths are more than a statistic.
Letters
April 24, 2020
In this Thursday, April 16, 2020 photo, PPE, personal protective equipment on display during a staff training session on how to put on and remove PPE,

Readers Write: Personal protective equipment, Earth Day, balanced news, languages

Not a hospital shortcoming.
Letters
April 24, 2020
FILE -- An empty classroom at Sinclair Lane Elementary School, which has been closed since mid-March, in Baltimore on April 14, 2020. The parents of m

Readers Write: Pandemic education, enforcing distance at reopened businesses

Dear students: We miss you.
Letters
April 23, 2020
In this Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020 photo, chickens line up to get a bite of spent brewer's grain brought in to feed bison at Sleepy Bison Acres farm in

Readers Write: Food supply, DACA recipients, reopening, news media, COVID-19 deaths

Small farms will help us weather the coronavirus crisis.
Letters
April 22, 2020
Kerry and Barb Mergen outside their now empty chicken house with a straggler who managed to elude the crew that came in just before Easter to euthaniz

Readers Write: Corporate farming, decisions amid disease, presidents and the press (and Julian Assange)

Does corporate farming care?
Letters
April 21, 2020
FILE - In this April 22, 1970 file photo, hundreds listen to Earth Day speakers after cleaning up New York's Union Square Park. (AP Photo)

Readers Write: Earth Day and climate change, Joe Biden, reopening society, the State Fair

The current crisis can teach us about the next one — climate change.
Letters
April 21, 2020
Handing out literature about domestic violence in the Bronx, on April 10, 2020. As the coronavirus forces people to stay home, reports of domestic vio

Readers Write: Domestic violence, 'Liberate Minnesota' protest, parkways closed to traffic, reopening the economy

Fight abuse, not the stay-home order.
Letters
April 17, 2020
A rental property in Minneapolis, on April 7, 2020. One week after the first of the month, tenants nationwide are already struggling with rents and pr

Readers Write: Affordable housing, fossil fuels, mercury rules, pacts to reopen states

Simplify affordable housing and just fund it.
Letters
April 17, 2020
Masks for hospital workers sewn by Corrina Bakken, the Minnesota OperaÕs costume director, in Minneapolis, Minn., March 24, 2020. With overrun ho

Readers Write: Personal protective equipment, coronavirus stats, COVID and climate, municipal governments, satisfying curiosity, finding balance in the news

A national or local disgrace?
Letters
April 17, 2020
A woman wears a face mask as she walks around Normandale Lake with a dog Monday, April 6, 2020 in Bloomington, Minn. as the use of masks to help reduc

Readers Write: Reopening society, rape kit testing, shutdown harms

"Normal" won't return. But life will.
Letters
April 16, 2020
Peter Phillip rides an an almost empty Light Rail during the p.m. rush hour after collecting groceries in Minneapolis, Monday, April 13, 2020, during

Readers Write: When to reopen, Line 3 town halls, emergency preparedness, some poetry

Check your math, Drazkowski. The curve isn't flat.
Letters
April 15, 2020
A United States Postal worker makes a delivery with gloves and a mask in Philadelphia, Thursday, April 2, 2020. The U.S. Postal Service is keeping pos

Readers Write: The Postal Service, our food supply, Trump's authority, relief checks

Neither snow nor rain ... but maybe funding shortfalls.
Letters
April 14, 2020
FILE -- Former Vice President Joe Biden shakes hands with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) during the Democratic presidential debate at Drake University in

Readers Write: Progressives' election choice, reopening the country, mail-in voting fraud

Opting out is not a message.
Letters
April 13, 2020
A sign on the door of a closed barber shop in downtown Alexandria, MN Thursday, April 2, 2020.] DAVID JOLES • david.joles@startribune.com A sin

Readers Write: Reopening society, coronavirus deaths, the pandemic's aftermath, Easter

Reopening society is not so simple.
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