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Letters
June 14, 2018
PHOTO COURTESY BEN JOHNSON. Scores of onlookers rooted on the raccoon as it moved next door to the UBS Tower and scaled the concrete skyscraper, makin

Readers Write: Skyscraper-climbing raccoon, 'Trump-haters,' community foundations, melting of Antarctic ice shelves, drinking and biking

Urbanites, meet nature.
Opinion
June 14, 2018
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Editorial cartoon: Scott Stantis on immigration

Cartoons
June 13, 2018
Sack cartoon: Resource management

Sack cartoon: Resource management

Editorial
June 13, 2018
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States launch another harmful attack on the Affordable Care Act

Three of Minnesota's neighbors are pursuing a harmful legal challenge.
Judi Dutcher
June 13, 2018
JIM GEHRZ • jgehrz@startribune.com
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DFL Attorney General Mike Hatch walks down an empty corridor toward

Political campaigns: Let's not live for the gaffes and 'gotchas'

I made my mistake, and it cost me. But communication pratfalls don't necessarily indicate a lack of knowledge or skill. Things happen. Cut candidates some slack.
Richard Greelis
June 13, 2018
Seventeen police canines and their human partners graduated from St. Paul's K-9 training program. A program featuring obedience, agility and suspect a

Policing: Careful with limits on K-9 apprehensions

Good training and relationships are needed, but so is flexibility, because one never knows how a police call will develop.
Max Stier
June 13, 2018

There's an HR crisis in the federal government

The problems with hiring and personnel management are perennial — and fundamental. Here's how to fix them.
Editorial, Dallas Morning News
June 13, 2018

Will Trump-Kim summit be a springboard to future diplomacy?

It's natural to wonder, but so far all we have are high hopes.
Letters
June 13, 2018
The Powerball jackpot is rolling over again and now stands at an estimated $750 million.

Readers Write: Powerball odds, immigration, U.S.-North Korea summit, press criticism

Lottery odds like lightning strikes? If only.
Cartoons
June 12, 2018
Sack cartoon: International styling starts with the right product

Sack cartoon: International styling starts with the right product

Editorial
June 12, 2018

Charles Krauthammer wrote for all the right reasons

Columnist didn't seek approval from the powerful; he wanted us to think.
Victor Cha
June 12, 2018
U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea leader Kim Jong Un walk from lunch at the Capella resort on Sentosa Island Tuesday, June 12, 2018 in Singa

Give Trump and Kim credit for walking us back from war

Their agreement is just a beginning, but consider where we were just five months ago. (Or for the last 65 years.)
Letters
June 12, 2018
U.S. President Donald Trump holds up the document that he and North Korea leader Kim Jong Un just signed at the Capella resort on Sentosa Island Tuesd

Readers Write: U.S.-North Korea summit, international trade, urban density, state guardianship of children, Nicollet Mall trees

Appeasement. Ring a bell?
Editorial
June 12, 2018
TV screens shows U.S. President Donald Trump, right, meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore during a news program, at Yongsan Electro

Post-summit blend: Hope and skepticism

The effort showed initiative, but its promise is of a familiar sort.
Noah Feldman, Bloomberg News (TNS)
June 12, 2018

In Ohio voting case, Supreme Court takes a nakedly political turn

The court's conservatives generally interpret statutes based on text, while the liberals prefer looking to statutory purpose. That didn't work for them this time, so …

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