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the Editorial Board of the Free Press of Mankato
November 23, 2021
Owatonna’s school district (shown here, the current high school) is one of the targets of data requests, in this case by the United Patriots for Acc

Fishing expeditions against Minnesota schools abuse open records law

The groups bogging schools down with data requests oppose attempts to teach students anything having to do with racial equity.
the Editorial Board of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
November 23, 2021
A Drug Enforcement Administration chemist checks confiscated powder containing fentanyl at the DEA Northeast Regional Laboratory in New York.

Why fentanyl?

There's so much risk — we must know what leads people here.
Opinion
November 22, 2021

America's deadly fentanyl crisis

Governments, families have to ask why the drug is appealing and overdoses are climbing.
Opinion
November 22, 2021
Editorial cartoon: Dave Granlund on holiday hitchhikers

Editorial cartoon: Dave Granlund on holiday hitchhikers

Andrea Walsh
November 22, 2021
A health care worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at an Oklahoma County Health Department Vaccine Clinic in Oklahoma City o

On the health care front lines, we need help

Please, get vaccinated.
Letters
November 22, 2021
Protesters chant as they march through the streets in Minneapolis on Saturday in response to the verdict in Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial.

Readers Write: Rittenhouse trial

Better to prevent than nitpick.
Editorial
November 22, 2021
Police patrol along a parade route where abandoned items remain on a street in Waukesha, Wis., on Monday, after the driver of an SUV plowed into a Chr

'Comfort and Joy' shattered at parade

After Wisconsin mayhem, Americans are again left wondering where they can be safe.
Abdi Barkat, Khulia Pringle and Joe Nathan
November 22, 2021
Maria Perez hugs her daughter, Maria Maya, a student at Wellstone, during a St. Paul School Board meeting on Nov. 11 in St. Paul.

Editorial Counterpoint: St. Paul school closings are short-sighted

There's room for compromise here, if leaders would listen.
John M. Crisp, Tribune News Service
November 22, 2021
Kyle Rittenhouse listens as the Judge Bruce Schroeder talks about how the jury will view video during deliberations in Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial at t

Kyle Rittenhouse is also a victim

He was born into a culture that has a fascination with guns and a diminishing interest in the difference between make-believe heroes and real life.
Doyle McManus
November 22, 2021
President Joe Biden arrives on Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Sunday, Nov. 21, 2021, as he returns from Wilmington, De

Advice for our oldest president, now 79

Joe Biden might have something to learn from the second-oldest president, Ronald Reagan.
Tyler Cowen
November 21, 2021
People might disagree over what is causing a 6.2% inflation rate, but there is consensus on the solution: It will be up to the Fed — and monetary po

Inflation's return restores the value of Milton Friedman's ideas

Monetarism is what will bring us back down.
Sarah Strommen
November 21, 2021
In 2017, then-Gov. Mark Dayton directed the DNR to analyze whether a timber harvest of 1 million cords from state-managed forest lands was sustainable

Counterpoint: DNR resource management is passionate, careful, balanced

Fact-based dialogue and collaboration will help inform the best possible decisions for our collective future.
Letters
November 21, 2021
Candles are placed around a monument to victims of the Great Famine in Kiev, Ukraine, in 2009. The famine in Soviet Ukraine killed millions of people

Readers Write: Critical race theory and Marxism

Which failure should we emulate?
Editorial
November 21, 2021
A critical care worker with M Health Fairview University of Minnesota Medical Center wrote notes on the glass while working with a seriously ill patie

Get workers their 'hero pay' without delay

Don't turn hero bonuses into just another political football.
Ron Way
November 21, 2021
Environmental engineer Laura Lewis, left, and geologist Kenzie Kester, both of whom work for an environmental remediation business doing contracting f

Minnesota, land of 3,000 impaired waters (and counting)

Pressure politics, public complacency, regulatory timidity and more are to blame for this preventable outcome.

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