Refugees: America to lead again
America renewed its promise to being a safe haven for refugees around the world when President Joe Biden expanded on Monday the limits for accepting these hard-working immigrants.
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Post-COVID, bold actions must address detrimental impacts on students
This is a clarion call to our communities to join with our educators, parents, and policymakers to make changes in our educational system that will benefit all students, and particularly low-income scholars and students of color.
Poll: Most Republicans haven’t given up thinking 2020 election was stolen
This is creepy. If this is the new normal (and I’m plenty worried that it might be), I fear for the future of the American experiment in democracy.
What should I do about racism? From one white person to another
We must become students and teachers of our world to fight alongside the people who are suffocating from the systemic racism in our nation.
Rebuilding from COVID should include improved truck fuel efficiency standards
Strengthening truck fuel standards, as the Biden administration has considered, isn’t just good for jobs and clean air, it will also save households money.
The Jews, the Armenians, and the Herero: genocides and tattoos
The survivors of genocides are permanently marked, not only through the psychological scars of lifelong trauma but also through physical symbols that perpetrators put onto their victims’ bodies.
No excuses: COVID-19 data must separate out Hmong American cases
COVID-19 mortality disparities will persist if surveillance is not more detailed than broad racial groups.
Free idea: St. Paul should use some of its relief money for city broadband
There are a lot of options for how to leverage the funding, and it could do wonders for digital equity in St. Paul’s poorest communities.
Somalia is facing another food crisis: here’s why — and what can be done to stop the cycle
Improving domestic cereal production in Somalia should be part of any future food security strategy for the country.
Our state’s future depends on a strong University of Minnesota
I strongly urge the Minnesota Legislature and governor to keep the U of M a top priority.
Who knew? A Duluth tale involving the president
The tale involves two cities — and I’m not making this up.
Greg Sargent: The GOP portrayed in Sen. Tim Scott’s rebuttal to Biden ‘simply doesn’t exist’
“Republicans favor stimulus and deficits under GOP presidents and rail at them under Democratic ones,” The Washington Post columnist writes.
Finding strength and compassion in south Minneapolis
It has been most powerful to see the striking testimony of those neighbors who by chance were there to witness, and in many cases, record and try to prevent, the killing of George Floyd as it happened in real time.
‘New Morning’: After pandemic dormancy, a new season cycle has begun
Guides in life show up — and plant seeds to sprout when needed.
Pass Biden, House proposal for $45 billion to remove lead pipes
We should be working for federal funding that covers the entire cost of lead service line replacement, whether the pipe is under public or private property.
How Totino’s secured Minnesota’s slice of the frozen pizza market
At a time when frozen pizzas were starting to appear in grocery stores around the country, the Totinos thought they could differentiate their pizza with a superior tomato sauce along with higher quality meats and cheeses.
Biden’s address to Congress: little poetry, but lots of clear prose
The president signaled that if Republicans can get over the block-it-all goal, he’s willing to compromise on how big, how fast, how high and how far.
Youth sports: MDH’s outdoor mask rules for coaches, players and spectators don’t make sense
While nothing in life is zero risk, especially during a pandemic, focusing on mask-wearing outdoors is not only superfluous, it’s unproductive.
Poll question about the goal of politics yields interesting results
Echelon Insights asked, “Do you think the goal of politics is more about enacting good public policy or about ensuring the survival of the country as we know it?”
Minnesota Senate’s proposed cuts to SHIP program would be costly in lives and dollars
SHIP was established in 2008 by a bipartisan vote of the Minnesota Legislature to help address the growing human and economic costs associated with diet- and tobacco-related diseases.
