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August 27, 2020
Crowds clashed with police, smashed windows and looting occurred in downtown Minneapolis after a report of a man's death on Nicollet Mall. ] LEILA NAV

Readers Write: Recent unrest in Minneapolis and Kenosha, the police, protecting businesses

This isn't working.
Letters
August 26, 2020
The nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates rejected the Trump campaign's request for an additional debate against Joe Biden, as well as its ef

Readers Write: The election, the census, policing

A guide to the months ahead.
Letters
August 25, 2020
Attendees cheer as President Donald Trump speaks at the Republican National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., Monday afternoon, Aug. 24, 2020. (Travis Do

Readers Write: Party conventions, colleges and COVID-19

This isn't the GOP I knew.
Letters
August 24, 2020
Lorenze Hoss, a freshman international student from Germany, disinfected chairs and tables in a classroom on Wednesday. ] ALEX KORMANN • alex.korman

Readers Write: College and coronavirus, scientific truth, Enbridge Line 3

Be the adults you are.
Letters
August 21, 2020
First year medical student, Emily Otiso, 25, stands for a portrait outside of her apartment on August 9, 2020 in Detroit, Mich. Otiso felt more unders

Readers Write: 'Minnesota Nice,' Minnesota Poll on support for policing changes, electric vehicles

A phrase we can do without.
Letters
August 21, 2020
Tens of thousands of books, school supplies, sports equipments in the hands of underserved children in the greater Twin Cites area thanks to efforts o

Readers Write: Women's sports participation, 2020 election

Participation isn't so simple.
Letters
August 21, 2020
Rose Crist waved down to her daughter, Deana Walkowiak-Olson, from her fourth floor window at St. Ann's Residence in Duluth, MN on Thursday. ] ALEX KO

Readers Write: Coronavirus loneliness, the USPS, racism on campus

It's lonely in here.
Letters
August 20, 2020
Fair goers on the swings at the "Kidway" from below at a kids height at the Minnesota State Fair in Falcon Heights, Minn., on Thursday, August 22, 201

Readers Write: Minnesota State Fair, Minneapolis police union, Enbridge Line 3, local news

With luck, see you next year.
Letters
August 19, 2020
A caravan of Black Lives Matter protesters arrived at the home of Minneapolis Police Federation president Bob Kroll and his wife WCCO reporter Liz Col

Readers Write: Protest locations, the Trump campaign and Russia, Bill Clinton at the convention, police contracts, debating Minneapolis

Leave the private homes of protest targets alone.
Letters
August 18, 2020
Community members at gathered at "The Path Forward" meeting at Powerhorn Park, a meeting between Minneapolis City Council and community members.] Jerr

Readers Write: Police reform, DFL candidate John Thompson, the mail, photography

A Minneapolitan's take.
Letters
August 17, 2020
A Minneapolis park police officer stood guard after people living in a homeless encampment in Powderhorn Park were forced to leave Friday in Minneapol

Readers Write: Homeless encampments, Minneapolis police, Trump in Minnesota, Postal Service

A missed opportunity, defunders.
Letters
August 14, 2020
A screenshot from ex-officer Tou Thao's body camera shows officers Thomas Lane, J Alexander Kueng and Derek Chauvin pinning George Floyd to the ground

Readers Write: Derek Chauvin and policing, revolutions, YMCA cuts, coverage of home trends

The Derek Chauvin example.
Letters
August 14, 2020
Workers remove the sign on June 23, 2020, at Ali Barbarawi's Chicago Lake Family Dental practice in Minneapolis, which was forced to close by the coro

Readers Write: Coronavirus' impact on one family, reopening, Minneapolis police

COVID's impacts only grow.
Letters
August 14, 2020
President Donald Trump addresses a press conference at the White House in Washington, Aug. 3, 2020. In his latest assault on voting by mail, Trump sai

Readers Write: Trump and the post office, COVID risks, Minneapolis cleanup

What a load of junk mail.
Letters
August 13, 2020
The remains of two bookstores in Minneapolis are still uncleared as of Aug. 11, more than two months after they were destroyed during May's riots. Don

Readers Write: Cleaning up Minneapolis, Kamala Harris as a running mate, Enbridge Line 3

Piles of rubble remain.
Letters
August 12, 2020
FILE -- Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 16, 2020. Former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumpi

Readers Write: Kamala Harris, Minnesota primary results, managing the coronavirus

The vice president we need.
Letters
August 11, 2020
Hennepin County election workers Timonthy Hart, left, and Olivia Reyes, right, counted absentee ballots for the primary election, Monday, August 10, 2

Readers Write: Mail-in voting, back to school, Bottineau light-rail line, polarization

Not "missing. Try "unused."
Letters
August 10, 2020
Wendy Li, left, and Rachel Huang pack meals for students to pick up on the first day of distance learning classes Sankofa United Elementary school in

Readers Write: Back to school, Israel, stimulus packages, NRA lawsuit, the virus

Don't blame families for adapting.
Letters
August 8, 2020
Elections administrator Jon Martin ran newly received ballots through a machine that opens them and stamps the date they were received. Their old mach

Readers Write: U.S. Postal Service, the police and PTSD, income and wealth disparities in Minnesota

Election concerns and more.
Letters
August 7, 2020
Protestors walk in a Defund the Police march Saturday, June 6, 2020, in Minneapolis. Across the country, calls are mounting from some activists and el

Readers Write: Minneapolis charter amendment, police, stifling sneezes

That was predictable.
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