Chuck Slocum

Strategists and academic experts are now bracing for what Michael McDonald, a University of Florida political scientist, has called “a voter turnout storm of a century.”

“Suicide is preventable in the vast majority of cases, according to Dan Reidenberg, the executive director of Suicide Awareness/Voices of Education (SAVE).

In our state, not unlike France moving forward at this defining moment in its history, we must continue to plan our work and work our plan.

There are few lawmakers in either major political party who are advancing solutions that would gradually pay down the debt.

Have you ever known a person you chose to contact annually at Thanksgiving time just to tell them how you appreciated the friendship? I have. We called him Benny.

Undeniably, Republicans have a statewide problem in that the election indicates the party held only its base and decidedly lost the centrist, independent voters who had supported Republicans in significant numbers in recent years.

Roughly half of Minnesota kids are not fully prepared to succeed when they begin kindergarten, and too many of them never do catch up.

For the last decade or so, I have become increasingly concerned about the federal debt, now estimated to be $21.13 trillion.

How Minnesotans are feeling, on everyting from Russian interferance to the Gov. Mark Dayton.

There remain large inequalities of income and wealth in America, but the goal of America is upward social mobility and opportunity for all.