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Letters
April 27
Andover High School teacher Amna Kiran led a push to require the driver’s permit tests to be written in clear, understandable language.

Readers Write: Clear language, newspapers, medical debt, psychiatric and behavioral health care

Clear writing, clear message.
Opinion
April 27
Editorial cartoon: Kids are safe from TikTok, but not guns

Editorial cartoon: Kids are safe from TikTok, but not guns

Metin Çakır
April 27
"Downsizing is a problem if information about it is not fully transmitted to consumers, which causes market inefficiencies as consumers are likely una

Can we fight shrinkflation? Yes, here's how.

Not by cracking down on corporations, but by improving communication.
Editorial
April 27
Semi-automatic rifles, including some AR-15s, on display at Bill's Gun Shop in Robbinsdale in 2019.

Strengthen firearm storage laws

A proposed expansion of Minnesota law would help prevent accidental deaths, and it could be enough to stop some suicides.
the Editorial Board of the Los Angeles Times
April 27

Trump doesn't deserve blanket immunity

That much should be clear when SCOTUS decides election case.
Opinion
April 26
Editorial cartoon: New campus mascot

Editorial cartoon: New campus mascot

Omar Alansari-Kreger
April 26
"We can spend hundreds of millions of dollars on expanding light rail to the western suburbs without realizing how impactful a modest fraction of that

Should Metro Mobility even be thought of as supplemental?

Develop the service further and maybe it could help fill any vacuum of an Uber/Lyft departure. At least it would serve riders better.
Abbey Payeur
April 26
Demonstrators made their way to the Sandburg Education Center during A Youth for Unity rally and march before an Anoka-Hennepin school board meeting o

What does Anoka-Hennepin really teach about DEI?

A budget impasse triggered by a revolt of three school board members appears to have been averted, but the issue remains. So, see for yourself what it means.
Editorial
April 26
What's lost when newspapers die

What's lost when newspapers die

Eight Minnesota papers will stop publishing this month in a blow to their communities.
Letters
April 26
A sign calling attention to the conflict in Gaza rests against a tent at an encampment on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in Cambridg

Readers Write: Pro-Palestinian protests, sex offender program

Not all suffering seems to matter.
Kirk Schneidawind
April 26
"The answer to keep the public informed is really to give school districts a choice: to either post their legal notices on their own website or contin

Editorial counterpoint: Embrace the shift in public notices

Posting them on school websites is fast becoming the best way to inform.
Maxwell Stearns
April 26
“We need more political parties that play a meaningful role in governance,” writes Maxwell Stearns is the Venable, Baetjer & Howard Professor of L

Imagine a U.S. with a parliamentary system …

Yes, it would require constitutional amendments. But it could save American democracy.
Letters
April 25
A voter marks a ballot during Minnesota's presidential primary in Andover on March 5.

Readers Write: Caucus system, state Sen. Nicole Mitchell, voting for RFK Jr.

Caucuses aren't to blame for our political mess.
Editorial
April 25
Students check their phones between classes at Carlton High School.

Turn off cellphones in state's classrooms

Legislation that would require schools to have smartphone policies is a good foundation.
Opinion
April 25
Editorial cartoon: Supreme Court's medical expertise

Editorial cartoon: Supreme Court's medical expertise

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