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Melissa Barnes
Drive as if that pedestrian is your child, father, mother, brother, sister or friend
We all need to stay alert and aware – whether we are in a vehicle or on foot – to save lives.
Editorial
Hodges offers leadership with proposed funding for Somali youth programs
City needs to build on ongoing efforts to counter global extremism.
Editorial
Congress should begin work now on Louisiana flood response
The response requires compassion and aid.
Cartoons
Greg Sargent, The Washington Post
Among women, the college-educated, the Trump-ocalypse is coming.
His alienation from those groups puts key states out of reach — yet he's doubling down on the tone and themes they dislike.
Jamal Abdulahi
Trump's attack on Somalis illustrates the harm he could do
And Minnesota's GOP leaders have a moral duty to speak out.
Michelle Dabrowski
Allina and the nurses union: Why I will go to work even if strike is called
For financial reasons, yes, since I am my family's sole earner. But mostly because I don't want to abandon my patients, my unit and my hospital communities.
Connie Ferdinand
Allina and the nurses union: Management is putting same lipstick on a different pig
Counterpoint: Hospital management's take-it-or-leave-it offer is no "healthy compromise." In fact, Allina only insults us nurses and issues us ultimatums.
Letters
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Readers Write (Aug. 18): Enforcing MnPass, Jill Stein, GMOs, snow removal policies, Minnesota's heritage
Enforcing MnPass: Money churns as traffic clogs.
Editorial
Legislators' transit impasse puts more than just trains at risk
Minnesota's traditional metro-outstate alliance is on the line.
Editorial
Savor these golden moments
Rio Olympics have given us Phelps and Bolt, two of the greatest ever.
Andrew Malcolm, Special to McClatchy (TNS)
Media bias as I see it
Yes, it exists, though not as a conspiracy. Also, candidates use it to keep their side united against a common enemy. Also, no one likes the messenger.
Dr. Penny Wheeler, 
Allina's offer to the union is a healthy compromise
Latest health care proposal to nurses would keep insurance plans that 95 percent use.
Letters
Readers Write (Aug. 17): Ilhan Omar, candidate disclosures, race and crime, GMOs, health care access and costs
Sorry — scrutiny comes with the territory.
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