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Laurie Hacking, Dave Bergstrom and Doug Anderson
Counterpoint: Pension fixes are already on the table
And the Legislature should adopt our proposals for two of our public plans.
Dick Schwartz
For Holocaust Remembrance Day, seeking the stories too painful to tell
From Minneapolis to Auschwitz, the memories ebb and flow, but the horrors of genocide are not to be forgotten.
Mike Meyers
International trade: Hate living with it, can't live without it
The popular sentiment and politicians would have us rip foreign-made goods to shreds — after happily buying them, of course.
Bonnie Blodgett
International trade: It's not about you. It's about the powerful getting their way.
Consider the case of the New Balance shoe company.
Editorial, St. Cloud Times
Concerned about MN Legislature's Real ID dawdling?
If you don't trust lawmakers to address the problem, get a passport.
Letters
Readers Write (May 1): Recycling, preventing extremism, Third Congressional District, job distribution, synthetic turf
Bin capacity, every-other-week pickup add up to a recycling deterrent.
Editorial
Great Lakes Compact must be protected, with no exceptions
Dayton can help protect the lakes by exercising his veto power.
Daniel W. Drezner, The Washington Post
Obama's economic legacy: Crisis overcome; malaise worse than ever
He doesn't get the credit he deserves — mainly because Americans still have deep-seated reasons for discontent.
Cartoons
Ann Friedman
The etiquette of mourning celebrities in the social-media age
Are all of these displays of collective grieving really necessary?
Joanne Kaufman, John Stanochand Steve Cramer
Counterpoint: For paid sick leave, one-size-fits-all approach is just wrongheaded
The stakes for the Minneapolis economy are too high for the city to make this a mandate.
Al Quie and Jesse Wiese
We need to reform sentencing, yes, and then 'second prison'
Once people have paid their debt, they deserve a new chance.
Letters
Readers Write (April 29): Shakespeare and today's politics, Metropolitan Council, transgender accommodations, 'fools and fast cars,' Minneapolis roads and parks and taxes, music education
Shakespeare and today's politics: From the bard, better options than that.
Editorial
'American Roulette': The role of gun laws in domestic violence
Background checks would not save all victims, but they're needed.
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