Community Voices

With dangers of vaping increasingly clear, the states and federal government need to get more aggressive at curbing e-cigarettes.

Each year brings more awareness of mental illness and more information on integrated approaches to treating and supporting the whole person.

Hitler’s Nazi party rose to power in Germany without ever winning majority support. It was enough that his minority was determined, ruthless and unscrupulous while the majority was complacent, ineffectual and splintered.

In a summer of unceasing political divisions, baseball is serving as a welcome respite from the latest ugly salvos in news reports and on social media.

The Trump administration has announced new regulations making it easier to remove species from the endangered list and weakening protections for both endangered and “threatened” species.

The current mistreatment of asylum seekers calls for greater action in combating this structural violence.

The Minnesota Sustainable Growth Coalition is focused on increasing awareness around the business case for clean energy.

The act would ban forced arbitration in employment, consumer, civil rights, and antitrust disputes.

The lack of empirical basis connecting violent videos and anti-social behavior has been noted in court cases around the country, including landmark litigation here in Minnesota.

There are many telling visual messages sent by a politician’s facial expressions. That’s the main insight of Dan Hill, who has made a career developing and applying facial coding analysis.

I need help with a way to fund longer paid time off. I’d be willing to help fund this through additional employer taxes.

I’m pretty sure each campground we have stayed in includes Republicans, Democrats, Independents and Greens. But out in the open air, we are completely united with our love of this piece of land that we call the United States of America.

The root cause of distracted driving isn’t physical interference from the phone; it’s mental interference from the phone conversation.

Let’s use some of what we’ve learned in the last century to foil both the plot and the props. 

Seeing a teacher who looks like you or a teacher who looks different from you opens your eyes to new ways of learning.

A letter from Ralph Reed continues to promote the president’s flagrant lies, including references to massive voter fraud in recent elections.