Community Voices
Curbing vaping will be uphill battle
With dangers of vaping increasingly clear, the states and federal government need to get more aggressive at curbing e-cigarettes.
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New approach to heading off mass school shootings is worth trying
Putting more emphasis on building a more stable school culture makes more sense than only training how to react to mass shooters.
Community Voices
Probation: Technical probation violations needlessly filling our prisons
Society isn’t well served by a probation system that sets up too many adults for failure or is used unnecessarily on some juvenile offenders. The Legislature needs to revisit the issue in the next session.
Community Voices
Candidates: The Democratic field is not too large
Most of the two dozen or so “major” candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination will fall away quickly.
Community Voices
E-cigs: Crackdown on e-cigarettes is well justified
The increasing us of e-cigarettes among youth is an epidemic that government health agencies need to aggressively tackle.
Community Voices
Space Force the wrong approach to a genuine threat
The military’s space operations do require reform and resources, but they don’t need a new, built-from-scratch bureaucracy to get the job done.
Community Voices
Economy: Trump’s bump has been blip so far
President Donald Trump’s promises of economic gains have not yet panned out.
Community Voices
Immigration: Separating families immoral, inhumane
The Trump administration took deliberate action to separate children from their parents in border crossing cases, creating trauma for families.
Community Voices
State budget: Invest in critical higher education
The Minnesota State university system provides the biggest bang for the buck on educating Minnesota’s workforce for the future.
Community Voices
Distracted driving: Ban the use of hand-held cellphones while driving
Distracted drivers using cellphones have caused numerous fatalities in Minnesota. Passage of this common sense public safety bill should be a no-brainer.
