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Vang: New year, new inclusive traditions

On this MLK Jr. Day, let’s make a commitment to love by building new family traditions that reflect equity, diversity and inclusion.
AuthoredKa Vang
January 19, 2025
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Sheletta: Like Michelle Obama, I, too, will be skipping the inauguration

I’m inviting Black women to a special MLK Day of Service event on Monday. Former first lady, since your calendar is open, you can come, too.
AuthoredSheletta Brundidge
January 16, 2025
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Brehm: Climate change didn’t cause the Los Angeles wildfires. Government incompetence did.

Here’s where the readiness fell far short.
AuthoredAndy Brehm
January 15, 2025
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Dabney: Poor leadership undermines Minnesota’s cannabis market, equity efforts

Amid churn at the state’s Office of Cannabis Management and dropped promises, the governor’s commitment and decisionmaking come under scrutiny.
AuthoredClemon Dabney
January 11, 2025
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Brehm: The friendship recession

Many of us have fewer meaningful relationships than ever before. As we enter a new year, now is a good time to assess our friendships and whether we’re doing enough to keep them going.
AuthoredAndy Brehm
January 5, 2025
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Brown: Blocked Nippon deal leaves fate of U.S. Steel in question

The company still needs investment badly, and it isn’t clear what game of opportunity and survival is being played at the top.
AuthoredAaron Brown
January 5, 2025
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Sheletta: Y’all knew former Senate Majority Leader Kari Dziedzic. I knew Kari D.

I’ve put her likeness on digital billboards all over town to make sure she gets the spotlight that she didn’t like, but definitely deserves.
AuthoredSheletta Brundidge
December 31, 2024
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Vang: There’s no place like Minnesota

The recent auction of Dorothy’s ruby slippers made me think about the search for home, and how so many of us from around the world have found it here.
AuthoredKa Vang
December 28, 2024
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Koerth: How one unhoused man experiences, and depends on, nature in the city

For him, it’s both a tool of survival and source of joy. And also at times, a challenge.
AuthoredMaggie Koerth
December 26, 2024
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Denker: What can’t be confined

The true presence of the season from inside the Stillwater prison, and from the glimmers of hope in incarcerated clinical pastoral education graduates.
AuthoredAngela Denker
December 25, 2024
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Brown: In Hibbing, Dylan biopic taps the unknowable

Creative genius can come from anywhere and everywhere. This version came from the Range.
AuthoredAaron Brown
December 24, 2024
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Brehm: Actually, the DFL deserves complete credit for the budgetary mess Minnesota finds itself in

Counterpoint: Republicans didn’t have a seat at the table when the DFL trifecta set the state on a fiscal collision course; but sensible cost-cutting can help get us off it.
AuthoredAndy Brehm
December 22, 2024
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