Community Voices

Minnesota is now the only state among the 30 with viable medical cannabis laws that does not allow plant material of some type to be utilized directly by patients.

Worker organizing has quickened. Prominent among the efforts are statewide teachers’ walkouts in West Virginia, Oklahoma, and Arizona, the latter two right-to-work states.

The Constitution is proving to be able to address or anticipate many of the problems we are seeing. I do not see a constitutional crisis.

As a computer scientist focusing on election technology, I spend half my time telling people to worry less, the other half telling them to worry more.

This election cycle I urge every media personality and debate moderator to ask candidates what specific climate change policies they support.

I’ve been thinking: It’s been a great summer. Coffee on patios, conversation with friends, family, peers. But talks that usually would focus on the Minnesota art of “catching up” have routinely devolved into a review of what is happening in our country.

In November, Minnesotans need to head to the polls to fight for economic justice and against this shamelessly corrupt tax law.

We now honor John McCain at his passing. But a question looms: Who among today’s leaders in Congress will step forward to emulate the patriotism, courage and civility that defined John McCain as a statesman in our time?

Please raise your voice against the malignant strain of politics that has been infecting our country more virulently, with new citizens and potential citizens as its target.

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