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Editorial Roundup: Remote work a valuable permanent business option
For many employees, punching a clock would be like revisiting history. Our smartphones, our laptops, our Fitbits report our work time all the time. And ...
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Editorial Roundup: Welfare Walz plan to cut red tape is solid
Two hundred forty thousand pieces of paper per month, 2.88 million pieces of paper per year. That’s the amount of paperwork state human service employees ...
by Editorial Roundup, Tuesday, April 6, 2021 8:53 pm
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Editorial Roundup: Immigrants boost the state of Minn.’s economy
They work, spend money, pay taxes and help fill demographic gaps, chamber finds. The Minnesota Chamber Foundation is out with a much-needed report on the ...
by Editorial Roundup, Friday, April 2, 2021 8:58 pm
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Editorial Roundup: Press conference brought back checks and balances
America’s system of checks and balances took stage Thursday as President Joe Biden conducted his first press conference in what many may have seen as ...
by Editorial Roundup, Tuesday, March 30, 2021 8:50 pm
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Editorial Roundup: Finding new solutions for racial health gaps
With help from Blue Cross, the U will be at forefront in addressing troubling health disparities. A painful but pioneering infant mortality study is a ...
by Editorial Roundup, Friday, March 26, 2021 8:50 pm
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Editorial: Reluctance about COVID vaccinations unwarranted
For all the angst and consternation over vaccine supplies and how to prioritize recipients, it is becoming increasingly clear that public health officials fear that ...
by Editorial Roundup, Tuesday, March 23, 2021 8:50 pm
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Editorial Roundup: Walz COVID-19 plan continues to show success
As we near the end of the pandemic — and yes, Walz and other experts are describing “an end” — we should look back on ...
by Editorial Roundup, Tuesday, March 9, 2021 8:50 pm
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Editorial Roundup: COVID-19 — a race we must not let nation lose
And so the race is truly on. In one lane, the novel coronavirus — SARS-CoV-2 — which is already blamed for a half-million deaths in the ...
by Editorial Roundup, Friday, March 5, 2021 8:50 pm
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Editorial Roundup: When weather attacks and the whole system fails
The power grid groans down south, but renewable energy isn’t the reason. The stubborn cold weather of late isn’t out of character for a Minnesota ...
by Editorial Roundup, Friday, February 19, 2021 8:50 pm
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Editorial Roundup: Vaccine misinformation must be quickly eradicated
Misinformation can be deadly. If the public is exposed to anti-vaccine information and too many people believe it and don’t get immunized against COVID-19, the ...
by Editorial Roundup, Friday, February 5, 2021 8:50 pm
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Editorial Roundup: State must remain nimble on vaccination rollout
Minnesota’s rollout of coronavirus vaccines has to this point remained somewhat underwhelming. It’s important the state overcome bureaucratic obstacles and manage not only distribution of ...
by Editorial Roundup, Friday, January 29, 2021 8:50 pm
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Editorial Roundup: Silence isn’t representation
While American revolutionaries decried taxation without representation, Minnesota revolutionaries today might cry their Republican members of Congress are offering representation without conversation. Republicans Tom Emmer, ...
by Editorial Roundup, Friday, January 22, 2021 8:50 pm
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Editorial Roundup: Upheaval in U.S. has global consequences
News of Trump-inspired mobs ransacking the U.S. Capitol reverberated worldwide, alarming allies and delighting adversaries as it inverted the concept of American exceptionalism. “We currently ...
by Editorial Roundup, Friday, January 15, 2021 8:50 pm
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Editorial Roundup: Speeding uptick makes roadways more dangerous
Lighter traffic isn’t a green light to treat public roadways as race tracks. Despite a significant drop in traffic at the start of the COVID-19 ...
by Editorial Roundup, Tuesday, January 12, 2021 9:00 pm
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Editorial Roundup: 2020 showed that facts are especially important
With 2020 still closer than it appears in the rearview mirror, we’re reticent to add pressure to 2021 by way of resolutions. But there’s one ...