Opinion

Minnesota and Minnesotans will always need people who show up. How will they show up? A lot of us will show up by taking the bus … if the Legislature lets us.

It is time that the language of racial equity heard so often at the Capitol translates into a process for achieving it within the lives of Minnesota’s BIPOC communities.

Minnesota and federal laws are clearly inadequate to prevent gun-trafficking by straw buyers.

With a discerning eye, the past begins to circulate anew, and more inclusive histories emerge in unexpected ways.

The ARP includes a key component that local governments have been begging for for a while now: increased flexibility.

We must invest in dismantling systemic racism and build new systems — through approaches that move away from a medical model of diagnosing social ills and imposing cures toward an anthropological one built on listening to and learning from the community.

Republican attacks against the Minnesota congresswoman should be recognized for what they are: transparently opportunistic, cynical ploys.

Minnesota teachers believe positive behavior reinforcement and restorative practices are the most effective approaches to school discipline, greatly preferring them to punitive and exclusionary measures.

More than a year has gone by without any state or federal recovery dollars for rebuilding.

Comparing Minnesota to southern states reveals prejudice and bigotry that belie our progressive self-image.

We must integrate news literacy education across subject areas and grade levels, mandating it as a high school graduation requirement.

As a lifelong engineer and miner and a native Minnesotan, I feel it is my duty to say this. The threat to the BWCA from a mine like what Twin Metals is proposing could be devastating under current best mining practices, and in my considered opinion, too risky to be allowed.