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Opinion

Need for police force becoming apparent

Local Editorials

Attitudes in America toward police forces and police tactics have been mixed and confusing in the past year. So it has been in Minneapolis this past year. Since the killing of George Floyd a year ago, there has been a push to defund the police, to dissolve the police force and replace it with ...

End of a truly unusual school year

Local Editorials

Graduation season is upon us, and the 2020-21 school year is coming to a close. This has been a school year like few others, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. There was some wonder at the beginning of the year how it would work to bring hundreds of students together in classrooms at a time when ...

Et Cetera

Local Editorials

New Marijuana Bill Medical marijuana has been an issue in Minnesota, largely due to the fact that the cannabis law has been so restrictive. Recently Minnesota lawmakers voted to expand the law to allow patients to smoke the plant. Normally it has only been allowed in the form of liquid, oils, ...

Let independent panel investigate insurrection

Local Editorials

When a mob of Trump supporters broke into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, trying to stop the the members of Congress as they tried to validate the results of the November presidential election, it was an act of insurrection unlike anything since the Civil War. Now, as some members of Congress try ...

The State budget deal

Local Editorials

If it wasn’t for deadlines, some things would never get done at all. It’s true in newspapers, and it’s true in government as well. State leaders agreed early Monday morning on a $52 billion budget plan, hours before the scheduled end of the legislative session. By having a May 17 ...

Israel, Hamas should heed calls for cease fire

Local Editorials

Israelis and Palestinians are in open war with each other in the Gaza Strip. Hamas, the Palestinian leadership organization, has been firing rockets into Israel, and the Israeli forces are responding with air raids to destroy buildings and tunnels it says are housing Hamas military ...