Over the years, Walter Cronkite became something of a national institution, with an unflappable delivery and a voice guiding viewers through national triumphs and tragedies alike.

Learning how to shield oneself from bullets should not be found within our nation’s curriculum.

If our elected officials are not influenced by “big money,” then they should tell us why Glencore is receiving such extraordinary special treatment.

To its credit, MnDOT has pledged to reduce vehicle miles traveled (VMT) by 20% by 2050, but there isn’t a clear plan to reach this goal. The goal is also too little, too late.

Research shows it is actually drivers who don’t come close to paying for the cost of streets and people who bike significantly subsidize those who drive by several hundred dollars.

Allocating more funding and resources toward educational programs and hiring more trained professionals reduces the number of students funneled into the school-to-prison pipeline.

A group of out-of-state bureaucrats is trying to push a major policy change that would seriously restrict the types of life insurance Minnesotans can purchase, potentially threatening our families’ future financial security.

Warming urban aquifers become fermentation vessels for water-borne pathogens, providing one more reason why replacing aging infrastructure is a good idea.

Raising the minimum wage is good for workers, it’s good for small businesses who get the money poured right back into our community, and it’s good for the health of our state to have money in the hands of working people.

There is a 100% chance that Patrick Henry High School in Minneapolis will be renamed. There is a very good chance that the new school name will be Prince High School.

Just as wearing seat belts is enforced by law in order to improve the safety of every driver and passenger, as well as to reduce burden on the health care system, a similar approach is required to ensure safe gun storage to mitigate preventable gun injuries and death.

I much rather see a federal standard set to protect children’s privacy online as to have not have a patchwork of data privacy laws with Republican undertones across America.

Political leaders are worried about what’s being taught in schools, but the more threatening present danger is what’s not being taught in schools.

Mayo’s seemingly successful form of economic blackmail represents a reverse version of what Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is doing down in Florida in his feud with the Disney organization.

It’s time to invest in students that are choosing the U of M education that has already helped make our more than 600,000 alumni successful.

The murder of 6 million Jewish people in Europe didn’t begin at Auschwitz. It began in 1933 with words and incitement and smaller acts of violence.

Carbon management projects are a proven technology that should be implemented to reduce CO₂ emissions from industrial and power generation sources.

The food waste issue can only be resolved if society moves to address the problem as a whole.

It is time in America for a grand bargain. We must achieve a deal that renders each party both a winner and a loser.

ChatGPT will never be able to compose Beethoven’s “Fifth Symphony,” paint the Sistine Chapel, or determine E=MC².