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April 30, 2022
Vice President Walter Mondale’s portrait at the University of Minnesota Law School was draped with a black sash after Mondale’s death in April 202

Readers Write: Walter Mondale, Steve Sack, juvenile justice

Two anecdotes.
Letters
April 29, 2022
Human Rights Commissioner Rebecca Lucero speaks during a news conference on Wednesday, announcing the findings of an investigation into the Minneapoli

Readers Write: Minneapolis Police Department, poverty, Rep. John Thompson

We warned you.
Letters
April 28, 2022
Mayor Jacob Frey and other city leaders hold a news conference on Wednesday to discuss the results of a Minnesota Department of Human Rights investiga

Readers Write: Report on Minneapolis police, Rep. John Thompson, immigration

No one should be surprised.
Letters
April 27, 2022
Readers Write: The Legislature and state funding, gerrymandering, health insurance, sex education

Readers Write: The Legislature and state funding, gerrymandering, health insurance, sex education

Hoping for hidden substance.
Letters
April 26, 2022
The Rochester Golf and Country Club canceled an event by the Center of the American Experiment last month.

Readers Write: Center of the American Experiment, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, newspaper carriers

Polarization in the very response.
Letters
April 25, 2022
Steve Sack drew this self-portrait for his book, “The First and Only Book of Sack.” He announced his retirement from the Star Tribune over the wee

Readers Write: Farewell to Steve Sack, congressional candidates, crime, Ukrainian refugees

You will be missed, Steve.
Letters
April 24, 2022
Readers Write: Our unserious politics, health care, bird flu

Readers Write: Our unserious politics, health care, bird flu

Can we please get serious?
Letters
April 23, 2022
Inflation, which had been largely under control for four decades, began to accelerate last spring.

Readers Write: Inflation, murder in Mexico, retirement savings, Republican philosophy, social media, ballot initiatives, injuries

The other explanations
Letters
April 22, 2022
Displaced residents of a homeless encampment stand with their remaining possessions on Lake Street in Minneapolis as nearby city crews work to clear t

Readers Write: Homelessness, ethanol, sex education

Where is the humanity?
Letters
April 21, 2022
Readers Write: Sex education, school name changes, Nokomis

Readers Write: Sex education, school name changes, Nokomis

Schools aren't the right messengers.
Letters
April 20, 2022
Travelers wait at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Tuesday, the day after a federal judge struck down the mask mandate for air trav

Readers Write: Federal mask mandates, the MayDay Parade

The administration is avoiding straight talk.
Letters
April 19, 2022
Riders exit and board a Blue Line train at the Lake Street/Midtown station in 2020. A new route has been proposed for an extension of the line.

Readers Write: Light rail extension, housing, I-94 land bridge proposal

Slow down and audit.
Letters
April 18, 2022
A sign requiring masks as a precaution against the spread of the coronavirus hangs in a store window in Philadelphia on Feb. 16.

Readers Write: Experts, nuclear power

The proper role of experts.
Letters
April 17, 2022
Andre Locke Jr., Amir Locke’s brother, is comforted by the Rev. Al Sharpton after Amir’s casket is placed into the hearse after his funeral at Shi

Readers Write: Amir Locke, policing, experts, transgender kids

Death by reckless policing.
Letters
April 16, 2022
A son held his mother’s hand as they talked at her nursing home in Michigan.

Readers Write: Funding for long-term care, LGBTQ legislation, bail and violent crime, Governor's Fishing Opener

Who'd get the funding boost really?
Letters
April 15, 2022
Bodies lie in a communal grave near the Church of St. Andrew in Bucha, Ukraine, on April 3.

Readers Write: War in Ukraine

We are all Ukrainians now.
Letters
April 14, 2022
A nuclear power plant is pictured in Essenbach, Germany, on March 3.

Readers Write: Nuclear power, health care, baseball

Why not think small?
Letters
April 13, 2022
Golfers play at the Hiawatha Golf Course in Minneapolis in summer 2021.

Readers Write: Hiawatha Golf Course, housing, the Supreme Court

The Park Board has a role in this mess.
Letters
April 12, 2022
Pine Technical and Community College automobile tech teacher Mark Zierden shines a flashlight for students Isabella Anderson, right, and Dylan Chesbro

Readers Write: College, state budget, student-athletes, free speech

A worthy DFL proposal.
Letters
April 11, 2022
Passenger luggage and bloodstains remain inside the Kramatorsk train station in eastern Ukraine on Sunday. More than 50 people were killed on Friday i

Readers Write: Ukraine, nuclear power, religious peace, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

Mourn the use of these weapons.
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