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Editorials

The Mondale model

Minnesota’s Walter “Fritz” Mondale died Monday at the age of 93. He should be remembered as a politician and statesman who brought a uniquely Minnesota flavor to the profession of politics. He was a small town from Elmore, to his lifetime of service as a state attorney general, a U.S. ...

Chauvin’s guilt caught on video

Ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted Tuesday on all three counts of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd last May. Chauvin’s guilt was decided by the 12 jurors in the Hennepin County courhouse, but it was established last May, when video shot by a ...

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst

The Twin Cities are waiting for the verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial. In the meantime, Brooklyn Center has been the focus of nightly protests outside of police headquarters after the shooting of Daunte Wright last week on Sunday. The state is on edge. The nation is on edge as it awaits the ...

How did he get the guns?

Another mass shooting, this time at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, killed eight people Thursday night before the gunman turned his gun on himself. Again, the shooter appears to be someone with enough red flags surrounding him to preclude him being able to get guns legally. Yet Brandon ...

Thumbs Up/Down

Perseverance THUMBS UP: You have to hand it to the State Street Theater Company. They are persistent. They are finally presenting their production of “Charlotte’s Web,” a play that was supposed to be presented last fall, but which was closed before it opened because of the state’s ...

Caution called for in vaccination program

The COVID-19 vaccine produced by Johnson & Johnson is being held back this week while government health experts look into the possibility that six cases of rare blood clotting was caused by the vaccine. While the six cases of blood clotting came after nearly 7 million vaccinations means ...