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Opinion

Widespread suffering from Ida

Local Editorials

Hurricane Ida hit the Gulf Coast states last weekend and wreaked havoc along the coast. Flooding and power outages are challenging the recovery efforts. Over a million households in Louisiana and Mississippi were without power as of Wednesday and gasoline shortages were hampering rescue and ...

Stop the political vengeance games

Local Editorials

Last year the Republicans in control of the Minnesota Senate found a way to punish Gov. Tim Walz for continuing to exercise emergency powers in the fight against COVID-19. During the monthly special sessions that the governor had to call to extend the emergency powers, the Republicans started ...

We owe a home to Afghan refugees

Local Editorials

America’s misadventure in Afghanistan is over. The last troops were airlifted out, but many more people were left behind. “We did not get everybody out that we wanted to get out,” said Gen. Frank McKenzie, head of U.S. Central Command in Washington after the last planes left. Some are ...

A bitter ending

Local Editorials

As the last few evacuation flights get ready to leave the Kabul airport, we can already see the kind of society we will be leaving behind in Afghanistan. The Taliban will be ruling the country by dint of military force (bolstered by arms and equipment the U.S. left behind for the Afghani ...

Et Cetera

Local Editorials

Rotary Club Congratulations to the Rotary Club’s 31 members on their recognition as Paul Harris Fellows. The recognition acknowledges individuals who have contributed or have had someone make a contribution in their name of $1,000 to The Rotary Foundation. In this case, an anonymous donor ...

No guns at the fair

Local Editorials

A judge issued a just and eminently reasonable ruling on Wednesday, refusing to grant an injunction requested by a gun owners’s group to allow gun owners with permits to carry their weapons at the Minnesota State Fair. The Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus had sought the injunction, saying the ...