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    July 17, 2018
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    Local View: Citizens join mayors in demanding safer refinery
    The next few months will be critical in deciding the level of risk from a chemical release and disaster that will be allowed to be reimposed...
    opinion/columns9 hours 23 min ago
    Commentary: Foolish environmental activists say they'll make Minnesota's Line 3 another #NoDAPL moment
    MINOT, N.D.—Minnesota regulators have given Canadian company Enbridge approval to go forward with replacing their Line 3 pipeline. That...
    opinion/columns12 hours 55 min ago
    July 16, 2018
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    Professors' View: U-turn on Twin Metals a massive giveaway of irreplaceable public resources
    Any Minnesotan who has ever dipped a canoe paddle, pitched a tent, or laced up a hiking boot while visiting the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness...
    opinion/columnsJuly 16, 2018 - 6:40pm
    July 15, 2018
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    Candidate's View: Opportunity to represent all of Duluth the honor of a lifetime
    On Thursday I was humbled and honored to be selected by our City Council as one of three finalists for the open city councilor At Large seat....
    opinion/columnsJuly 15, 2018 - 6:00pm
    Commentary: The subtle deception we all face
    FARGO — My greatest fears and life wounds are: the fear of rejection, abandonment, loneliness and failure. Growing up I felt "poor" so...
    opinion/columnsJuly 15, 2018 - 11:55am
    Commentary: Summer 'movecation' is no holiday
    FARGO — You know how most people look after a vacation? They're rested and golden brown from lazing on the beach. They may be sporting...
    opinion/columnsJuly 15, 2018 - 9:38am
    July 14, 2018
    Contributed photo / David Tryggestad (right) poses with his friend and colleague, the Rev. Dr. George H.O. Madsen, during a protest at the Civic Center on June 20, the day President Donald Trump visited and rallied in Duluth. It was Madsen who inspired Tryggestad to go to seminary and become a pastor, Tryggestad said. Both men live in Duluth.
    Local view: Love your neighbor — even when you don't like it
    "You don't understand the Bible!" The supporter of President Donald Trump, at the Trump rally in Duluth on June 20, hurled this accusation at...
    opinion/columnsJuly 14, 2018 - 10:32pm
    Conservative view: Nominee a 'judge's judge,' what our nation needs
    What can we expect of Brett Kavanaugh if he's confirmed as Justice Anthony Kennedy's successor on the Supreme Court? Kavanaugh's record and background...
    opinion/columnsJuly 14, 2018 - 10:28pm
    Liberal view: Pick is bad news for health care, women, consumers, unions
    Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump's nominee for the United States Supreme Court, is a bad choice for most Americans. His political, legal...
    opinion/columnsJuly 14, 2018 - 10:27pm
    National view: Catholics rock the Supreme Court
    Even before President Trump announced his nomination Monday of federal appeals court Judge Brett Kavanaugh to fill departing Justice Anthony Kennedy's slot on the Supreme Court, the foul scent of anti-Catholicism began seeping into public commentary.
    opinion/columnsJuly 14, 2018 - 10:05pm
    National view: How does kidnapping children make America great again?
    The Trump administration's kidnapping — that's the proper word — of the children of would-be migrants should be seen as an ongoing criminal conspiracy. Somebody ought to go to jail.
    opinion/columnsJuly 14, 2018 - 10:04pm
    National view: Trump isn't attacking NATO; he's strengthening it
    As President Donald Trump put Germany and other allies on notice for the harm they are doing to NATO with their failure to spend adequately on our common defense, Democrats in Washington came to Germany's defense. "President Trump's brazen insults and denigration of one of America's...
    opinion/columnsJuly 14, 2018 - 10:03pm
    July 12, 2018
    Statewide View: Line 3 opponents put green alarmism above Minnesota's future
    Lately we've heard and read a lot from green activists opposed to the replacement of an aging pipeline in northern Minnesota. The replacement...
    opinion/columnsJuly 12, 2018 - 6:50pm
    Statewide View: Minnesota can take lead in stomping out plastic pollution
    Starbucks has moved to phase out plastic straws. The company announced July 9 it would eliminate plastic-straw use in all its stores by 2020....
    opinion/columnsJuly 12, 2018 - 6:48pm
    July 11, 2018
    In Response: Build nuclear plants to bolster strained power grid
    The perceptive June 28 column about the strained power grid in the U.S. (National View: "Americans support shoring up strained U.S. power grid")...
    opinion/columnsJuly 11, 2018 - 7:00pm
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