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May 8, 2020
Not to give away a letter writer’s punch line, but … things could be worse? (This woodcut image of an event in 1618 portrays one of a series of ex

Readers Write: Watchdog aversion, rooftop solar, Twin Metals mine proposal, gun ruling, COVID-19 research, 'uff da'

The fall of public servants in the Donald Trump era.
Letters
May 8, 2020
Riverside County medical personnel administer coronavirus tests at a drive-though testing facility at Diamond Stadium on March 21, 2020 in Lake Elsino

Readers Write: Herd immunity, reopening, Sweden, Michael Flynn, lockdown

Herd immunity has a cost.
Letters
May 8, 2020
MECCA, CA - APRIL 13: Maria Corrales, 31, had to stop working in farm and stay home to take care of her children because child care facility that used

Readers Write: Coronavirus, child care, airlines, meat supply, Red Barn protest

Child care is not a new problem.
Letters
May 6, 2020
Governor Tim Walz listens as MMB Commissioner Myron Frans talks about the State of Minnesota's budget projection. The state's budget outlook crumbled

Readers Write: State budget deficit, Minneapolis schools plan, stay-at-home weight gain

It would be a mistake to respond to a crisis with austerity
Letters
May 5, 2020
FILE - In this March 19, 2020, file photo laboratory scientist Andrea Luquette cultures coronavirus to prepare for testing at U.S. Army Medical Resear

Readers Write: Scientific literacy, virus responses, the pandemic economy, food supply

A dose of scientific literacy.
Letters
May 5, 2020
Vehicles circled the Minnesota State Capitol, covered with flags and signs, during Saturday's protest against Gov. Tim Walz's "Stay Home MN" executive

Readers Write: Legislature, Fifth District race, federal funding, limericks

Rural Minnesota needs this bill
Letters
May 3, 2020
FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2020, file photo Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden, speaks during a Democratic presidential pr

Readers Write: Tara Reade allegations, Minneapolis school redesign, Minneapolis Park Board, foreign doctors

Next up, Trump's accusers. Right?
Letters
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.
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