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Readers Write: Shooting deaths, Republican support for Trump, Minnesota's urban-rural divide
Shooting deaths are as American as apple pie.
Margaret Donahoe
Transportation in Minnesota: It's time for a new 10-year plan
Our infrastructure ages like our population, and a stand-alone solution is needed.
R.T. Rybak
R.T. Rybak: Today's politics require us to compartmentalize
Stand for your ideas, but also for your opponent's humanity. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi points the way.
Editorial
A tragic lesson from measles outbreak
Disinformation about vaccine risks is dangerous, and outbreak in Samoa is a deadly reminder.
Editorial
More help for those without homes
Exodus 2.0 will serve chronically homeless who never make it to the "front of the line.''
Letters
Readers Write: Climate change coverage, food stamp changes, state budget surplus, election security
Keep the climate coverage coming.
Katherine Kersten
The New York Times '1619 Project' revisited
The newspaper's slavery-at-the-fore reframing of American history distorts this country's progress and the exceptional ideals that drive it.
Editorial, Miami Herald
George Zimmerman's unwelcome comeback in Florida
He's suing Trayvon Martin's parents, prosecutors and witnesses.
Eddie Ryshavy
Thoughts for the living from one of the dying
Metaphorical lightning strikes everyone, but this bolt struck me. I'm not quite the hero about it, and don't ask me to be.
John Kass, Tribune Content Agency
An endangered species on college campuses: Free speech
A new film notes the perils of suppressing voices. Some of those urging caution may surprise you.
Letters
Readers Write: Twin Metals mine and the BWCA, a Christmas list for politicians
Minnesota can't even protect its non-wilderness waters.
FROM THE ECONOMIST
There's no good option in Britain's election
For the country's sake, we back a party that won't win.
D.J. Tice
When the best words had weight: Great moments in political rhetoric
Today it's tweets, but once we were moved by tight phrases built to last.
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