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Editorial Roundup: Economy: Child, business tax credits worth passing

It might be appropriate to alert taxpayers to something they don’t often hear about: A bipartisan plan to reduce wasteful and sometimes fraudulent spending and ... Read more

by Editorial Roundup, Friday, February 2, 2024 8:50 pm

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Editorial Roundup: Legislature needs to fix treatment funding

Kids needing mental health treatment in Minnesota wait for days in emergency rooms. When kids and adults do get care, the providers are paid about ... Read more

by Editorial Roundup, Tuesday, January 30, 2024 8:50 pm

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Editorial Roundup: Stronger open governmentt laws more important than ever

Minnesota has long viewed itself as a bastion of good and open government. In many ways, that description is valid. We don’t have a record ... Read more

by Editorial Roundup, Friday, January 26, 2024 8:50 pm

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Editorial Roundup: Minnesotans should be able to vote on ERA

If you are wondering why in this day and age an equal rights amendment would be necessary when so many legal protections already exist, consider ... Read more

by Editorial Roundup, Tuesday, January 23, 2024 8:50 pm

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Editorial: Elections: Iowa caucuses are past their prime

Billed as a neighbor to neighbor meeting, the Iowa caucuses have drawn such a skewed audience that even living up to the myth of its ... Read more

by Editorial Roundup, Friday, January 19, 2024 8:50 pm

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Editorial Roundup: Future of news business critical to self-governance

Ever since news operations became professional in their approach to journalism, from World War II on, Americans have taken for granted the ease with which ... Read more

by Editorial Roundup, Tuesday, January 9, 2024 8:50 pm

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Editorial Roundup: Positive news on jobs, population in Minnesota

More jobs. More people. Minnesota’s employment and population trends are going in the right direction, which should create cautious optimism going into 2024. The data, ... Read more

by Editorial Roundup, Friday, January 5, 2024 8:50 pm

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Editorial Roundup: 2024: Make it a year to focus on helping others

The ball in New York’s Times Square dropped at midnight as usual, and with a flip of a calendar page, we’ve entered 2024. There is ... Read more

by Editorial Roundup, Tuesday, January 2, 2024 8:50 pm

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Editorial Roundup: Counselor additions fill an ever-growing need

The good news in education: The Minnesota Legislature and Gov. Tim Walz increased funding for hiring more school counselors. The bad news: Minnesota continues to ... Read more

by Editorial Roundup, Tuesday, December 26, 2023 8:50 pm

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Editorial Roundup: State must pick up pace battling invasive carp

The recent capture of more than 300 invasive carp in the Mississippi River, downriver from Winona, shows the growing threat from the carp and the ... Read more

by Editorial Roundup, Friday, December 22, 2023 8:49 pm

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Editorial Roundup: Crop insurance has room for budget trim

The U.S. Government Accountability Office and conservative think tanks agree on one point when it comes to farm programs: They should be cut. While subsidies ... Read more

by Editorial Roundup, Friday, December 15, 2023 8:50 pm

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Editorial Roundup: State must get serious about nitrate pollution

Federal officials this month put Minnesota agencies on notice that they have not done enough to prevent nitrates — a toxic byproduct of fertilizers and ... Read more

by Editorial Roundup, Friday, December 8, 2023 8:50 pm

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Editorial Roundup: Health care: Rising costs show need for competition

There’s bad news and worse news when it comes to health care costs in Minnesota. Per capita costs for private insurance patients rose 7% or ... Read more

by Editorial Roundup, Tuesday, December 5, 2023 8:50 pm

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Editorial Roundup: Court ruling another threat to democracy

The old adage about America’s legal system has often been “Anyone can sue anyone.” But three federal judges don’t think much of that idiom and, ... Read more

by Editorial Roundup, Friday, December 1, 2023 8:50 pm

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Editorial Roundup: Buyer beware on ‘health care sharing ministries’

Open enrollment is the window of time at the year’s end when consumers make a critical health care decision — which health insurance plan to ... Read more

by Editorial Roundup, Tuesday, November 28, 2023 8:50 pm

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