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May 18, 2020

California governor isn't following science now

Newsom's moves to loosen the state's lockdown orders hurt his credibility.
Letters
May 18, 2020
Zahid Memood dropped off Chick-fil-A for homeless people residing at the Chaska Super 8. He was helping out his sister Sana Cheema who is the general

Readers Write: Housing assistance, reopening bars, staying safe, aging

Prevent the coming crisis — homelessness.
Lawrence Roberts
May 18, 2020
Aerial view of the May 18, 1980, eruption of Mount St. Helens as seen from the southwest. Columns of ash and volcanic gas reached heights of more than

Forty years after the eruption: Mount St. Helens' lessons for the pandemic

Scientists provided a range of educated guesses, public officials split on how to respond and social dynamics were similar.
Opinion
May 18, 2020
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Editorial cartoon: Drew Sheneman on unemployment

Conor Sen
May 18, 2020
The Tax Act of 2017 eliminated a lot of individual tax breaks, including the home-office deduction for employees. (Dreamstime/TNS) ORG XMIT: 1663498

More outsourcing and legal liability? Potential problems of working from home en masse.

Things that start out exciting can have negatives that become apparent later.
GLEN TAYLOR, Star Tribune Owner
May 16, 2020

Glen Taylor: Now more than ever, this newspaper is essential to Minnesota

A thank-you to readers and advertisers and to all who make this 'daily miracle' happen.
Cartoons
May 15, 2020
Sack cartoon: Reservations

Sack cartoon: Reservations

Editorial
May 15, 2020

What's a Major League Baseball season worth?

It would be good to have the game back this summer. There's a plan, but there are obstacles.
Jill Burcum
May 15, 2020
A Red Cross demonstration in Washington during the influenza pandemic of 1918. Nearly everyone who survived the 1918 flu pandemic, which claimed at le

My great-grandfather wasn't hit by the first wave of the 'Spanish flu,' but the second

Memories of that pandemic and its survivors give rise to worries.
Letters
May 15, 2020

Readers Write: Students' contributions in COVID-19 fight, face masks, job losses in middle age, Twin Metals mining proposal

We're all in it together, and these students are on the right side.
Editorial
May 15, 2020

Homeless camps are a growing problem in the Twin Cities

Ramsey and Hennepin counties need more resources to help stop the spread of COVID-19.
May 15, 2020
Then-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn speaks during the daily news briefing at the White House, in Washington in February 2017.

Obama misstated the facts on Michael Flynn

Former president also ignored the role his administration played in the investigation.
Letters
May 15, 2020
An empty swing set sat on the beach behind Cragun's Resort on Gull Lake on Monday. ] ALEX KORMANN • alex.kormann@startribune.com Resorts around Minn

Readers Write: Reopening, Trump's leadership, the Electoral College

A dial, not a switch, is the right metaphor.
Theresa Keaveny
May 15, 2020
Hogs are kept in a barn, ready to be sold on Tuesday, April 14, 2020, at Prestige Pork in Inwood, Iowa. Mike Ver Steeg, 47, runs Prestige Pork, with t

Crisis shows how our farm-food economy needs to be transformed

We can have a system that serves equitably for all.
Mark Tranvik
May 15, 2020
A choir member celebrates Easter Mass, which was live streamed, at a nearly empty St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco, Sunday, April 12, 2020. Chris

Coronavirus pandemic: God speaks to us in the challenges he sends

Here's some of what I hear him saying.

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