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Help is nearby for a mental health crisis
Minnesota has joined national suicide prevention network.
Letters
Editorial
Follow Jan. 6 attack with a 9/11-style commission
An independent inquiry served America well after the terrorism attacks and can do so again.
Mary Schmich, Chicago Tribune (TNS)
Feeling down, drab, gray, weary, etc.? Diagnosis: February
Every year our moods take a dive along with the temperatures.
Ron Way
Hyped up weather reports only make winter more bothersome
We get it; it's cold. Just don't forget your hat.
Gary Marvin Davison
Counterpoint: Public school students aren't learning the 'wrong' thing
In public schools throughout Minnesota they're learning too little of anything at all, and changing social studies standards won't help.
Opinion
Playing Politics podcast: Walz rings the school bell
Amid positive COVID trends, Minnesota's governor urges an accelerated return to in-person learning. Hear the "Playing Politics" analysis from WCCO Radio's Chad Hartman and the Star Tribune Editorial Board's Patricia Lopez and John Rash.
Nick Murray
Scrutinize the use of emergency powers in times of crisis
States should consider reforms as they try to make sense of everything that happened last year.
Rekha Basu, Des Moines Register (TNS)
In Iowa, lawmakers wade into anti-trans school bathroom restrictions
The proposed rule, requiring people to use the restroom matching their sex at birth, would cause trouble. I know, because a friend and I tested it.
Editorial Board
Don't brush off LAPD's disgusting George Floyd 'joke'
The incident undermines the department's progress at a critical time for police nationwide.
Letters
Readers Write: Impeachment trial, freedom of speech, the cold weather
That was your chance, senators.
Editorial
How to connect and heal St. Paul's Rondo neighborhood
Momentum is continuing to build for a promising "land bridge" over busy stretch of I-94.
Editorial
When weather attacks and the system fails
The power grid groans down south, but renewable energy isn't the reason.
Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune
Senate GOP has disfigured democracy, maybe for good
They have normalized behavior which at one time would have been inconceivable.
Rudy Boschwitz
Rudy Boschwitz on George Shultz: A long life lived well
Shultz, a former secretary of state who died earlier this month, helped change the world with a life in government.
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