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Local Editorials

State needs to move on school year plans

Sometime this fall, Minnesota schools are going to start educating students again. Exactly when this will be, and exactly how this will happen, is up in the air right now. But there are things that need to be done to be ready for it, whenever that is. Teaching positions need to be filled, and ...

Time for Congress to question the VA

Reta Mays’ spree as a serial killer ended in July 2018, but only after she got away with murdering military veterans for a year. On Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Clarksburg, West Virginia, Mays pleaded guilty to seven counts of murdering veterans who were patients at the Department of ...

Officer’s last words should be remembered

Much of the public’s attention on law enforcement personnel during the past several weeks has focused on the tiny minority of them who deserve to be called “bad cops.” The enormous number of good officers, deputies, troopers and agents ought to be remembered first. One of them, Toledo, ...

Correcting misperception must be priority for police

Leave aside, for a moment, the political correctness that has resulted in universal condemnation of all law enforcement personnel. In the interest of saving lives, let us return to using our common sense. As The Associated Press reports, a significant number of police officers, deputies, ...

Trump’s push clearly has a political basis

President Donald Trump was letting his political desires show too much with his insistence last week that the nation’s public schools reopen in the fall. He has threatened to withhold federal dollars if schools do not bring back students. Trump also criticized the Centers for Disease ...

Et Cetera …

Public needs access Martin County commissioners this week tackled the topic of whether to continue meeting via videoconferencing, and what to do when the state of Minnesota’s emergency declaration ends. The board apparently can continue to meet as it has been, but this raises questions ...