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David Feinwachs
Counterpoint: It's time for answers on UCare exit
Stop the secrecy; we need the truth about the state's action.
James M. Dunn
Counterpoint: Do you let your child play football or not? Use your head
Parents, in fact, have reason to flee youth leagues in droves.
Editorial
Minnesota teens No. 1 on ACT, but stagnant scores and gaps persist
State's students of color still lag far behind white students.
Letters
Readers Write (Aug. 28): Pollinator habitat, Minnesota Sex Offender Program, race and hiring, Black Lives Matter protest
Minnesotans of all stripes have banded together for this rescue effort.
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Alyssa Rosenberg, The Washington Post
Vester Flanagan's video and the inevitable live-streamed massacre
The show-off murderer is nothing new, but technology makes grotesque new exhibitionist options likely.
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Balancing First Amendment rights at the Great Minnesota Get-Together
Disrupting the Get-Together would do little to aid Black Lives Matter cause.
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Letters
Readers Write (Aug. 27): State Fair, prescription painkillers, GMOs, Waukesha and water, school supplies, TV shootings
Here are the top 10 signs that you're a Minnesota State Fair fanatic.
Paula Maccabee
Counterpoint: 'Modern mining' isn't the plan here
Northern Minnesota proposal rejects the best environmental technology as high cost.
Elizabeth Tucker
Counterpoint: I deserve a choice about dying
For 50 years I've fought a painful battle to live. But in the end, it's my decision.
Robert Wager
Counterpoint: Science shows crops are safe — to all but activists
Reservations mislead when consensus and the facts are clear that genetic modification benefits people and the environment.
Editorial
Virginia tragedy opens era of social media murder
Motives still unfolding in shooting that reveals the dark side of digital connectedness.
James Hron
Small number of planned debates is bad for Democrats
The party had a better handle on this during the 2008 election cycle. This time, Republicans are in front, and they are getting all the air.
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