It depresses me that proponents of this amendment persist in the illusion of rational debate. It demeans us all to have to read flimsy, paper-thin 'reasoning' in defense of the measure, rather than having them own up to it being an emotional and religious issue for their part.

You can recognize two-party civil marriages without the institution disintegrating as claimed. Scaremongering about a slippery slope isn't an appeal to rationality. The claim that "Minnesotans favoring the...

While the aesthetic observations are accurate, the article seems to lack the perspective of the neighborhoods at issue. Surely, the neighborhood organizations along the route have some insight into the recent pace and nature of development, but I guess since none of them are headquartered right on Hiawatha, it doesn't occur to contact them for their view. I know as someone living in a Hiawatha-adjacent hood (who has spent a fair share of his life sitting at its stoplights--to cross it as...

The notion that opposing or vetoing a law like this favors perpetrators is begging the question. The law short circuits society's long established means—prosecution and trial—of coming to identify who the perpetrator is, and therefore who to punish. This law is nothing more than authorization, and I would argue incentive, to escalate confrontations and to be darned sure you kill whoever might otherwise contradict your version of who the perpetrator was. Whoever's dead must have been the perp...

I was right there with you, and felt this was a relatively even-handed approach (if a little myopic about poverty), but then all the good will and most of the credibility went out the window at the end when it wandered into conspiracy theory territory. After two of the most-scrutinized elections in state history, with the polls teeming with self-appointed fraud watchers, there is still no evidence to support your suspicion. In most aspects of life conspiracy theories are given little regard...