Small Minnesota care homes facing excessive fees and unnecessary rules
Recent legislative licensing changes will endanger the future of some of the very best care alternatives, and potentially shut them down completely.
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Natural areas and working lands are key to Minnesota’s future
We need natural climate solutions — and investing in family farmers, forest managers, and others — to be a priority for the Legislature, for the governor and state agencies, and for companies and communities too.
America’s credibility problem: Reversing Trump’s actions won’t be enough
The Biden administration faces profoundly neglected challenges, and the international landscape has changed.
Clean energy is the future for conservatives
It must become part of the Republican Party’s core messaging platform as a matter of survival.
Our youth face a rigged economy
If young people today were entering an economy where incomes rose the way incomes for their grandparents did, salaries would be almost twice as much as they actually are.
Larry King: The curious everyman who talked to everyone
Didn’t matter if the caller was a crackpot, cranky know-it-all, pretentious intellect or some lonely dude just looking to talk to someone. In the world according to King, they all had something worth listening to.
Minnesota needs a climate leader, not a new pipeline
Gov. Tim Walz held on to the past even when a better, cleaner future beckoned.
Home burials: a shrinking chapter of our history
Home burial as a sacred rite became embattled when people massed themselves into city-states, and when nations collectivized armies eager to wage wars away from home.
Let America become America for all — including immigrants
During the months ahead, we face the hard work of making sure that a deeply divided Congress comes together and passes the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021.
Minnesota should vaccinate teachers next
I am calling for all Minnesotans to put their heart and soul into safely reopening K-12 schools.
The power to pardon in Minnesota should be the governor’s
A lawsuit is challenging a 1941 law that requires a unanimous decision by the governor, the chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court and the attorney general.
Reopening elementary schools: How it’s done matters
Elementary school settings are not somehow naturally COVID-proof. These schools still represent a real transmission risk with broad impacts.
On the anniversary of Roe, we fight for control of our bodies
As we face the real possibility of losing federal protections for safe, legal abortion, we must take action at the state level.
Poli Sci 101: The course Trumpers didn’t take
Despite their many flaws, the Founders of our republic were working to build a future with fewer tyrants and more freedom, rather than one full of tyrants in which everyone is afraid.
Human rights depend on democracy: Protect it
Disability is a bipartisan human-rights issue, and the stakes for people with disabilities are huge if democracy is compromised in any way.
Walz’s budget proposal should include significant investments in transit
This would curb climate pollution and support much-needed economic recovery by expanding access to opportunities. It would save Minnesotans money and bring federal dollars to the state.
Republican Party’s dilemma: Selling its soul paid dividends, but debts have come due
Many Republican leaders understood Donald Trump was a dangerous narcissist who was unfit for the presidency but in their own Faustian bargains decided to ride his coattails in pursuit of shared goals or their own lofty ambitions.
COVID-19 vaccine: Minnesota’s ’splaining won’t do
As someone in the highest risk group for COVID-19, I find the state’s response has been inadequate, misguided, and dangerously secretive.
U.S. needs the impetus, leadership, and commitment for positive peace
Positive peace is defined by The Institute for Economics and Peace as true, lasting, and sustainable peace built on justice for all.
The pandemic is still sorting us out
We have seen unmistakably heroic acts of kindness and compassion. And we’ve seen superspreader events where people have been so unwilling to work together for the common good that they won’t even wear a mask.
