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July 3, 2022
The U.S. Capitol building and a portion of the Washington Monument.

Readers Write: Church and state, anti-BDS laws, domestic violence, women's health care, midterm elections

The eroding wall.
Letters
July 2, 2022
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.

Readers Write: Public safety in Minneapolis, abortion ruling, de-extincting a tiger

Thanks for Mayor Jacob Frey, Community Safety Work Group.
Letters
July 1, 2022
For $10 a pop, University of Minnesota quarterback Tanner Morgan signed autographs in 2021 at a Lakeville restaurant.

Readers Write: $199 to mingle with Gophers, EPA ruling, bikes and trees on Summit Avenue, a busy intersection names in the news and the potential for confusion

An abusive outgrowth of the "name, image, likeness" policy.
Letters
June 30, 2022
Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 10 in Moscow.

Readers Write: Putin and prices, Jan. 6 hearings, Supreme Court ruling on EPA, Minnesota Legislature

How his war is affecting me.
Letters
June 29, 2022
Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Neil Gorsuch. Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, which was decided

Readers Write: Supreme Court ruling on prayer, Jan. 6 testimony, political allegiance

To speak of God is no violation
Letters
June 28, 2022
Former assistant football coach Joe Kennedy took a knee in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building after his legal case, Kennedy vs. Bremerton School

Readers Write: U.S. Supreme Court's rulings on prayer, abortion

Court starts the ball rolling toward religion in public-school settings.
Letters
June 27, 2022
A vigil held Friday by UnRestrict Minnesota, the ACLU of Minnesota and partners in response to the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision issued b

Readers Write: Abortion ruling

Where to go from here
Letters
June 26, 2022
Police officers speak near a makeshift memorial for the shooting victims outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 27. Texas police are

Readers Write: Uvalde, abortion, trans inmates, electric cars, Jan. 6 hearings

Focus on response misses the point.
Letters
June 25, 2022
A scene from Barbara La Valleur’s family farm in Otter Tail County.

Readers Write: Long rural addresses, the abortion ruling, Minnesota Legislature, Father's Day coverage

In favor of the descriptive
Letters
June 24, 2022
An abortion-rights activist protests outside the Supreme Court in Washington on Friday after the court ended constitutional protections for abortion t

Readers Write: The Supreme Court's rulings

The chaos to come.
Letters
June 23, 2022
Attendees pack a Minneapolis City Council meeting in December 2018 at which the 2040 Plan was approved. A judge ruled last week that the city must hal

Readers Write: 2040 plan, how to deal with Russia, state tax rebates

"Environmentalists," really?
Letters
June 22, 2022
Ukrainian soldiers fire an M777 howitzer, supplied by the U.S., at Russian positions in the Donetsk region of Ukraine on June 21. Russian forces have

Readers Write: Russia, the state Legislature

No time for naiveté.
Letters
June 21, 2022

Readers Write: Title IX, Roe v. Wade, guns, homelessness

An immeasurable boon.
Letters
June 20, 2022
In this image from video released by the House Select Committee, Vice President Mike Pence talks on a phone from his secure evacuation location on Jan

Readers Write: Mike Pence, Ukraine, Minneapolis schools, Scott Jensen, 2040 plan

The bare minimum is not heroic.
Letters
June 19, 2022
Christina Lusk is a 56-year-old transgender woman serving time in a men’s prison. She is suing to be allowed into a women’s facility.

Readers Write: Women's prisons, electric cars and gas prices

This cannot be the solution.
Letters
June 18, 2022
Dr. Allen Van Beek examined John Thompson’s arms in March, 30 years after reattaching them after an accident on Thompson’s family farm in North Da

Readers Write: John Thompson's farm accident, Blue Line extension, Winston Smith, gun violence, Title IX at 50

A coincidence remembered
Letters
June 17, 2022
Vice President Mike Pence presides over a joint session of Congress convened to certify Electoral College votes at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Readers Write: Mike Pence, racial covenants, native rituals in school, United Nations

To Pence: Thank you.
Letters
June 16, 2022
A dancer on stilts marches along Hollywood Blvd. during the Los Angeles Pride parade June 12.

Readers Write: LGBTQ support, abortion, cookies

Stand up for a better world.
Letters
June 15, 2022
Vehicles drive down Hennepin Avenue on Monday. The City Council is expected to decide Thursday whether bus lanes will operate 24/7 or only during time

Readers Write: Hennepin Avenue redo, saving trees, Minneapolis police

It won't do what proponents promise.
Letters
June 14, 2022
Chris Stirewalt, the former political editor at Fox News who was fired after Fox correctly called the 2020 president election in Arizona for President

Readers Write: Jan. 6 hearings, parkways, disability support programs, trees

Paying the price for integrity.
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